2023 National road race rankings | 12 April

Here are the latest British Continental national road race rankings, updated following the Timmy James Memorial on Sunday 9 April.

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Previous update: 5 April.

Featured image: Olivia Coukham

Men’s national road race rankings

The Timmy James Memorial Grand Prix at Witham on the Hill offered some of the leading riders in road race rankings to go head-to-head. Rankings leader Ollie Peckover (trainSharp Elite) – a three-time National B road race winner already this season – was up against last week’s Danum Trophy victor Toby Barnes (Doland Ellesse RT), Jock Wadley winner Alex Richardson (Saint Piran) and Rowan Baker (London Dynamo, 10th in the rankings).

However, it was sometime contributor to The British Continental James McKay (Cycling Sheffield) who stole the glory, beating the favourites to take the first National B road race win of his career. The win propelled him from 18th in the rankings up to 3rd. He now sits just 23 points behind our leading U23 rider Jenson Young (ROKiT SCRT) who held on to 2nd in the rankings despite being busy in Ireland, bagging a solid 6th overall at the Rás Mumhan. This left Peckover, who failed to score any points after finishing mid-pack, to hold onto his first place in the rankings.

Richardson now moves up to 4th from 16th, just one point behind McKay, with Richardsons Trek DAS rider Jack Crook slipping from 3rd to 5th.

Saint Piran continues to hold the top spot in the men’s team rankings extending its lead over the ROKiT-SRCT team, with trainSharp Elite still 3rd.

Next weekend sees the first round of the British Cycling Under-23 Men’s Road Series at the PB Performance Espoirs Road Race, while the following weekend there are two National B road races for men, the Straiton Struggle in Scotland on 22 April and the DAP CC Spring Road Race on 23 April.

Individual rankings

#	Rider	Age	Team	Total
1	Ollie Peckover	Senior	trainSharp Elite	193
2	Jenson Young	U23	ROKiT-SRCT	136
3	James McKay	Senior	Cycling Sheffield	113
4	Alexandar Richardson	Senior	Saint Piran	112
5	Jack Crook	Senior	Richardsons Trek DAS	105
6	Zeb Kyffin	Senior	Saint Piran	104
7	Toby Barnes	Senior	Private Member	98
8	Huw Buck Jones	U23	Wales Racing Academy	97
9	Jordan Giles	Senior	Primera-TeamJobs	93
=	Damien Clayton	Senior	Embark Spirit BSS	93
11	Tomos Pattinson	Junior	Tofauti Everyone Active	91
12	Rowan Baker	Senior	London Dynamo	87
13	Matthew Warhurst	Senior	ROKiT-SRCT	77
14	Jack Rootkin-Gray	U23	Saint Piran	73
15	Alex Peters	Senior	Richardsons Trek DAS	67
=	Jacob Smith	U23	Wheelbase CabTech Castelli	67
17	William Truelove	U23	ROKiT-SRCT	66
18	Jacques Coates	U23	Team PB Performance	62
19	Dexter Leeming-Sykes	U23	Wold Top The Edge Pactimo	61
20	Matthew Houlberg	U23	Embark Spirit BSS	59

Team rankings

#	Team	Total
1	Saint Piran	418
2	ROKiT-SRCT	342
3	trainSharp Elite	266
4	Embark Spirit BSS	206
5	Richardsons Trek DAS	192
6	Wales Racing Academy	186
7	Kalas Motip Race Team	181
8	Cycling Sheffield	179
9	Wheelbase CabTech Castelli	131
10	Primera-TeamJobs	129
11	Tofauti Everyone Active	117
12	Team PB Performance	114
13	Ride Revolution Coaching	99
14	London Dynamo	87
15	Wold Top The Edge Pactimo	66
16	TAAP Endura	62
17	StolenGoat Race Team	48
18	BCC Race Team	45
=	Bingoal WB Development Team	45
=	RTD – J’sCycleShack	45

Women’s national road race rankings

With no full National B road race taking part last weekend, there were no changes to the women’s national road race rankings.

This next National B road race for women is not until 23 April when the opening round of the British Team Cup, the Twickenham CC Dave Peck Memorial British Cup Race, takes place.

Individual rankings

#	Rider	Age	Team	Total
1	Zoe Langham	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	172
2	Jessica Finney	Senior	AWOL – O’Shea	160
3	Tamsin Miller	Senior	Hutchinson-Brother UK	142
4	Monica Greenwood	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	139
5	Bexy Dew	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	138
6	Lucy Lee	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	112
7	Sammie Stuart	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	94
8	Connie Hayes	Senior	AWOL – O’Shea	78
9	Sian Botteley	Senior	Hutchinson-Brother UK	75
10	Flora Perkins	U23	Fenix-Deceuninck Development Team	75
11	Jo Tindley	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	66
12	Cat Ferguson	Junior	Shibden Hope Tech Apex	60
13	Frances Owen	Senior	Wahoo – Le Col	50
14	Francesca Hall	Senior	Loughborough Lightning	49
15	Mary Wilkinson	Senior	Team Boompods	48
16	Emma Jeffers	U23	DAS – Handsling Bikes	45
17	Ella Maclean-Howell	U23	Team Inspired	45
18	Ellen McDermott	Senior	Team Boompods	45
19	Eilidh Shaw	U23	Alba Development Road Team	40
20	Robyn Clay	U23	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	40

Team rankings

#	Team	Total
1	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	434
2	DAS – Handsling Bikes	398
3	Hutchinson-Brother UK	312
4	AWOL – O’Shea	275
5	Shibden Hope Tech Apex	102
6	Team Boompods	99
7	Wahoo – Le Col	92
8	Loughborough Lightning	76
9	Fenix-Deceuninck Development Team	75
10	LAKA Pedal Mafia RT	48
11	Team Inspired	45
12	Alba Development Road Team	44
13	Team Spectra Cannondale	39
14	Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team	26
15	StolenGoat Race Team	13
16	LDN-Academy	11
17	Saint Piran WRT	8
18	Ignite	7
19	INFLITE TYPE ONE	7
20	FTP-Fulfil The Potential-Racing	7

How it works

The rankings take results from National A and National B road races in the UK in 2023. Note the emphasis on road racing; results from circuit races and criteriums don’t count. And neither do points from Regional or UCI road races. The focus is deliberately narrow; we want to understand who has been performing in national-level road races in the UK across the season. And keeping it focused makes it easier for us to manage and update here at British Conti HQ. 

Like any rankings system, this isn’t perfect. We aren’t pretending it will be a completely objective measure of road racing performance or ability. But we do hope it injects a bit of fun and helps create a bit of interest in national-level road racing this season, particularly at National B level.

The scoring system is very similar to the one used by British Cycling, with riders in the top 20 of races qualifying for points, with points also being awarded to stage winners.

Points Band	1	2	3	4
Position	Nat A Road	Nat B Road	Nat A ind. stages	Nat B ind. stages
1	100	60	30	15
2	85	52	25	12
3	75	45	21	10
4	66	40	17	8
5	58	35	14	6
6	51	31	12	5
7	45	27	10	4
8	39	23	8	3
9	34	20	7	2
10	29	17	6	1
11	25	15	5
12	21	13	4
13	18	11	3
14	15	9	2
15	12	7	1
16	10	6
17	8	5
18	6	3
19	4	2
20	2	1