2023 National road race rankings | 14 June

Last Sunday was a day of regional road race championship events, There were an astonishing nine separate National B races last Sunday, as riders up and down the land competed for regional road race championship honours. With bags of points available, the weekend promised change at the top of The British Continental national road race rankings.

See more rankings data, race results and startlists on our ever-evolving stats hub here.

Previous update: 8 June

Featured image: Ellen Isherwood

Men’s national road race rankings

There were six regional National B road races for men last weekend, covering six regions and one nation (Wales).

The big news is that we have a new leader! James McKay (Cycling Sheffield) finished second at the North West and Yorkshire Regional Road Race Championships to score 52 points, enough to usurp erstwhile leader Alex Richardson (Saint Piran), who was a DNF at the Giles Ree Memorial road race.

Jenson Young (ROKiT-SRCT) did not race but remains third – and the top under-23 – 71 points adrift of Richardson.

Ollie Peckover (trainSharp Elite) helped to create one of the images of the season when he lost out to Matt King (X-Speed United) at the East Midland Regional Road Race Championships, bent over the bars in dejection as King exploded into celebration. A consolation of sorts for Peckover, though, is that he moves up to 4th in the rankings, from 7th, just 11th points behind Young.

Four other riders moved up inside the top ten after the weekend. Olveston Grand Prix winner Marinus Peterson (Kalas Motip) rose one place to 8th, thanks to 4th at the Welsh Road Race Championship. Ben Pease (Moonglu RT) continued his progress up the rankings, moving to 9th after a 3rd at the North West and Yorkshire Regional Road Race Championships. Jordan Giles (Primera-TeamJobs) rocketed from 19th to 10th with victory at the Swindon Wheelers Centenary Road Race. He now is tied with another top-ten new entrant, Will Truelove (ROKiT-SRCT), who was second at the Welsh Road Race Championship.

In the team rankings, Saint Piran still commands a huge lead over second-placed ROKiT-SRCT. There is a new team in at number three though, as Joseph Rees‘ victory at the Welsh Road Race Championship helped Kalas Motip RT to the team’s highest position all year, knocking Cycling Sheffield off the podium. In fact, Cycling Sheffield is down to 5th, with Embark Spirit BSS moving to 4th thanks in part to Dan Gardner‘s win at the Giles Ree Memorial road race.

This weekend we’ll see the longest National B road race in the calendar, the Upton 200, takes place in Yorkshire. A timely warm-up for the National Road Championships, the race contains a strong startlist, including new rankings leader McKay, Ollie Peckover, Marinus Peterson, Will Truelove, Ollie Wood (Unattached), Josh Whitehead (Cross Team Legendre) and Matt King.

There is an equally strong field at the London Dynamo Summer Road Race in Petworth, West Sussex. Alex Richardson heads the line-up, with Rowan Baker (London Dynamo), Jordan Giles, Sam Culverwell (Dolan Ellesse RT) and Conor McGoldrick (Richardsons-Trek DAS) among the names to watch.

Individual rankings

Pos	Rider	Age	Team	Points
1	James McKay	Senior	Cycling Sheffield	355
2	Alexandar Richardson	Senior	Saint Piran	332
3	Jenson Young	U23	ROKiT-SRCT	261
4	Ollie Peckover	Senior	trainSharp Elite	248
5	Rowan Baker	U23	London Dynamo	231
6	Dexter Leeming-Sykes	U23	Wold Top The Edge Pactimo	214
7	Zeb Kyffin	Senior	Saint Piran	212
8	Marinus Petersen	Senior	Kalas Motip Race Team	206
9	Ben Pease	Senior	Moonglu Race Team	197
10	Jordan Giles	Senior	Primera-TeamJobs	185
=	William Truelove	U23	ROKiT-SRCT	185
12	Oliver Hurdle	Senior	StolenGoat Race Team	175
13	Huw Buck Jones	U23	Wales Racing Academy	167
14	Jack Crook	Senior	Richardsons Trek DAS	163
=	Samuel Clark	U23	trainSharp Elite	163
=	Adam Lewis	Senior	Saint Piran	163
17	George Wood	U23	Cycling Sheffield	154
18	Daniel McDermott	Senior	Moonglu Race Team	151
19	Jack Rootkin-Gray	U23	Saint Piran	148
20	Matthew Houlberg	U23	Embark Spirit BSS	143

Team rankings

Pos	Team	Points
1	Saint Piran	1160
2	ROKiT-SRCT	765
3	Kalas Motip Race Team	691
4	Embark Spirit BSS	674
5	Cycling Sheffield	602
6	trainSharp Elite	562
7	Primera-TeamJobs	436
8	Wheelbase CabTech Castelli	409
9	Wales Racing Academy	404
10	Moonglu Race Team	394
11	Ride Revolution Coaching	374
12	Richardsons Trek DAS	327
13	Wold Top The Edge Pactimo	313
14	Team PB Performance	233
15	London Dynamo	231
16	StolenGoat Race Team	226
17	TAAP Endura	179
18	Ribble rechrg Race Team	165
19	The Cycling Academy	165
20	Spokes Racing Team	150

Women’s national road race rankings

There were three regional road race championship races for women at the weekend. With neither of the top two – Zoe Langham (Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee) and Tammy Miller (Hutchinson-Brother UK) – in action, the door was ajar for near-rivals to overtake them.

Lucy Lee (DAS-Handsling) hit the bulls-eye with victory at the Women’s Tri-Regional Road Race Championships, a second National B road race win in as many weekends. Her 60-point haul moves her from 3rd to 2nd in the rankings, just 9 points behind Langham.

Monica Greenwood was 5th at the North East, North West & Yorkshire Regional Road Championship, meaning she remains in 4th but with the gap closed to Miller in 3rd. Junior rider Cat Ferguson (Shibden Hope Tech Apex) skips up to 5th from 6th after a podium in the same race.

Frankie Hall‘s (Loughborough Lightning) comprehensive win at the combined East and West Midlands road race moves her up to 6th from 10th, while Ruth Shier (Hutchinson-Brother UK) jumps into the top 10 (in 8th) after finishing 2nd behind Lee at the Tri-Regional.

A shoutout should go to Emma Jeffers (DAS-Handsling) too, who moves into the top 20 after winning the North East, North West & Yorkshire Regional Road Championship from a chaotic sprint.

The fascinatingly close contest at the top of the team rankings continues. Hutchinson-Brother UK stays at the top with a 27-point advantage. DAS-Handsling‘s double victory moves them to second. Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee, previously the closest challenger to Hutchinson-Brother UK, drops to 3rd, with the bulk of its squad enjoying a weekend of racing in Belgium.

There are no women’s National B events this weekend sadly. And with the National Road Championships taking place the following week, the next national road race event for women will be the Women’s British Team Cup Road Race, organised by Solihull CC, on 9 July.

Individual rankings

Pos	Rider	Age	Team	Points
1	Zoe Langham	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	293
2	Lucy Lee	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	284
3	Tamsin Miller	Senior	Hutchinson-Brother UK	244
4	Monica Greenwood	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	219
5	Cat Ferguson	Junior	Shibden Hope Tech Apex	216
6	Francesca Hall	Senior	Loughborough Lightning	214
7	Bexy Dew	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	183
8	Ruth Shier	Senior	Hutchinson-Brother UK	182
9	Sammie Stuart	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	169
10	Robyn Clay	U23	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	167
11	Imogen Wolff	Junior	Shibden Hope Tech Apex	161
12	Jessica Finney	Senior	AWOL – O’Shea	160
13	Ellen McDermott	Senior	Team Boompods	115
14	Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne	Senior	Team Boompods	115
15	Mary Wilkinson	Senior	Team Boompods	114
16	Emily Proud	Senior	Le Col Race Team	105
17	Emma Jeffers	U23	DAS – Handsling Bikes	105
18	Lizi Brooke	Senior	Wahoo – Le Col	101
19	Sian Botteley	Senior	Hutchinson-Brother UK	97
20	Amelia Tyler	U23	Alba Development Road Team	96

Team rankings

Pos	Team	Points
1	Hutchinson-Brother UK	905
2	DAS – Handsling Bikes	878
3	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	772
4	Shibden Hope Tech Apex	535
5	Team Boompods	486
6	AWOL – O’Shea	284
7	Wahoo – Le Col	267
8	Le Col Race Team	224
9	Loughborough Lightning	198
10	Loughborough University Cycling Club	129
11	Jadan Vive le Velo p/b Glasdon	117
12	Alba Development Road Team	114
13	Team Spectra Cannondale	98
14	Fenix-Deceuninck Development Team	75
15	University of Nottingham Cycling Club	72
16	LAKA Pedal Mafia RT	65
17	Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films	65
18	Southampton University Road Club	64
19	Brother UK-Orientation Marketing	53
20	University of Edinburgh Cycling Club	52

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