2023 National road race rankings | 19 April

Here are the latest British Continental national road race rankings, updated following the PB Performance Espoirs road race on Sunday 16 April.

Previous update: 12 April.

Featured image: ELW Photography

Men’s national road race rankings

As an under-23 only race, the PB Performance Espoirs road race provided an opportunity for some of the domestic peloton’s younger riders to move up The British Continental road race rankings.

No rider could dislodge senior rider Ollie Peckover (trainSharp Elite) from the top of the rankings, however. Already boasting a commanding lead before the race, he preserved his 57-point lead after Jenson Young (ROKiT-SRCT), despite neither rider racing.

Below Peckover and Young, however, the rankings were shaken up. Rowan Baker’s (London Dynamo) 3rd place at the PB Performance race moved him to 3rd in the rankings too, just 4 points behind Young. While PB Performance race winner Will Truelove (ROKiT-SRCT) shot up from 17th to 4th in the rankings.

Baker and Truelove’s rises budged James McKay (Cycling Sheffield) and Alex Richardson (Saint Piran) down to 4th and 5th respectively.

A strong performance by ROKiT-SRCT, including Truelove’s win, means the team has now usurped Saint Piran at the top of the team rankings, underlining how much the team is blossoming this season.

This 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. With the UK’s top riders participating in the Rutland-Melton International CiCLE Classic (UCI 1.2) this weekend, the races will be a chance for some lesser-known riders to make a mark on the 2023 road season.

Individual rankings

#	Rider	Age	Team	Total
1	Ollie Peckover	Senior	trainSharp Elite	193
2	Jenson Young	U23	ROKiT-SRCT	136
3	Rowan Baker	U23	London Dynamo	132
4	William Truelove	U23	ROKiT-SRCT	126
5	James McKay	Senior	Cycling Sheffield	113
6	Alexandar Richardson	Senior	Saint Piran	112
7	Jack Crook	Senior	Richardsons Trek DAS	105
8	Zeb Kyffin	Senior	Saint Piran	104
9	Matthew Houlberg	U23	Embark Spirit BSS	99
10	Toby Barnes	Senior	Dolan Ellesse Race Team	98
11	Huw Buck Jones	U23	Wales Racing Academy	97
12	Jordan Giles	Senior	Primera-TeamJobs	93
13	Damien Clayton	Senior	Embark Spirit BSS	93
14	Tomos Pattinson	Junior	Tofauti Everyone Active	91
15	George Wood	U23	Cycling Sheffield	86
16	Matthew Warhurst	Senior	ROKiT-SRCT	77
17	Jack Rootkin-Gray	U23	Saint Piran	73
18	Alex Peters	Senior	Richardsons Trek DAS	67
19	Dexter Leeming-Sykes	U23	Wold Top The Edge Pactimo	67
20	Jacob Smith	U23	Wheelbase CabTech Castelli	67

Team rankings

#	Team	Total
1	ROKiT-SRCT	425
2	Saint Piran	418
3	trainSharp Elite	318
4	Embark Spirit BSS	257
5	Cycling Sheffield	229
6	Wales Racing Academy	206
7	Richardsons Trek DAS	205
8	Kalas Motip Race Team	181
9	Wheelbase CabTech Castelli	134
10	London Dynamo	132
11	Primera-TeamJobs	129
12	Team PB Performance	119
13	Tofauti Everyone Active	117
14	Ride Revolution Coaching	99
15	Wold Top The Edge Pactimo	72
16	BCC Race Team	62
17	TAAP Endura	62
18	Halesowen A & CC	54
19	StolenGoat Race Team	48
20	Bingoal WB Development Team	45

Women’s national road race rankings

There was once again no women’s National B road race last weekend, so no changes to the road race rankings.

That will all change this weekend, however, with the opening round of the British Team Cup at the Twickenham CC Dave Peck Memorial British Cup Race in Surrey.

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