2025 GIANT Tugby Ronde van Wymeswold: day one report and results
Phoebe Roche (O’Shea – Development Team) and Danylo Riwnyj (Foran CT) powered victories on stage 1 of the women’s and open editions of the Ronde van Wymeswold
Phoebe Roche (O’Shea – Development Team) powered to a commanding uphill sprint victory on Stage 1 of the women’s Ronde van Wymeswold (Saturday 14 June), outgunning the bunch at the end of a tightly controlled race and confirming her growing status as one of the peloton’s most dangerous finishers. Noémie Thomson (Brother UK–Team OnForm) produced a commanding ride against the clock to win Stage 2 — a short, sharp road bike time trial — and in doing so leapfrogged into the overall lead.
In the open race, Danylo Riwnyj (Foran CT) took his first National B road race victory in a fiercely contested opening stage, outsprinting Ed Morgan (Muc-Off SRCT-Storck) from a dominant eight-man break that formed early and never looked back.
Updated 16:55 to reflect updated results provided by organiser.
For five laps of the windswept 8.3km Widmerpool circuit, the women’s field played a careful hand. With the afternoon time trial looming large, and the course’s open farmland roads offering scant protection from the breeze, the peloton stayed largely glued together – an uneasy calm settling over the race. Yet there were still valuable seconds up for grabs thanks to the intermediate sprint primes offered on laps 2, 4 and 6.
Zoe Roche (Private Member) was the first to seize the moment, taking maximum bonus seconds at the first sprint at the end of lap two. Georgia Lancaster (Loughborough Lightning) crossed in second, with Arabella Blackburn (Shibden Apex RT) picking up the final second on offer. On lap four, it was Madeline Cooper (Montezuma’s Eventrex) who timed her move best to take the prime ahead of Lancaster and Harriet Martin (Wolfox CAMS Le Col).
It wasn’t until lap six that the race truly flickered into life. Megan Anderson (Team Boompods) launched a solo move, prising open a 12-second advantage. Her effort animated the race, but the pack, unwilling to let her dangle, brought her back before the lap was out. Lancaster snapped up the final sprint prime ahead of Zoe Roche and Blackburn.
Still, there was no decisive move by the time the bell chimed at the end of lap seven. With the field intact and no obvious break on the cards, the finale became a war of legs and lines into the gradual rise to the finish. And it was Phoebe Roche who had both. The Witham Hall Grand Prix winner timed her sprint to perfection, kicking clear of the fray and holding off her fast-finishing younger sister, junior rider Zoe Roche, to take her second win of the season. Cooper, ever consistent, rounded out the podium.
Thanks to the bonus seconds she collected across three intermediate sprints Lancaster ended the stage in the overall lead, two seconds ahead of Zoe Roche, with Cooper at four seconds. The GC picture remained tightly poised ahead of the afternoon’s short, sharp race against the clock.
Phoebe and Zoe Roche talk to Beth Watson about their 1-2 in the opening stage.
Stage 2 | Time trial
Noémie Thomson (Brother UK–Team OnForm) produced a commanding ride against the clock on late Saturday afternoon to win Stage 2 — a short, sharp road bike time trial — and in doing so leapfrogged into the overall lead.
Covering the rolling course in 11 minutes and 30 seconds, Thomson was six seconds quicker than Ruby Oakes (DAS-Hutchinson), with Alderney Baker (Team Empella) a further 22 seconds back in third. It was a ride of poise and power from the Brother UK–Team OnForm rider, and took her tally of National B road race wins to three in just five events. Her effort built on a steady showing in the opening road stage, and catapulted her to the top of the general classification with one stage remaining.
Oakes delivered a strong ride to slot into second on both the stage and the GC, 19 seconds down on Thomson. Baker’s third place consolidated her position among the overall contenders, now sitting third overall at +28s.
With Sunday’s final stage set to favour all-rounders and opportunists, Thomson will wear the leader’s jersey with a slender margin but a clear target on her back.
Open race
Stage 1 | Road race
If the women’s opener was a cagey affair, the Open race – 14 laps of the same Tugby-Wymeswold circuit – was anything but. From the drop of the flag, attacks flew off the front, setting the tone for a day of relentless aggression.
First to make a move were Steven Parsonage (DAS-Richardsons), Oliver Hurdle (HUUB Yomp Bonk Crew) and Bernard Galea (Primera-TeamJobs), who carved out a 10-second advantage over half a dozen chasers. The bunch, momentarily stunned, allowed the gap to grow – and when the two groups merged on lap three, a potent group of nine had formed.
That wasn’t the final shake-up. Just before the halfway mark, the race blew apart completely. Parsonage, Hurdle and Galea were joined by a new wave of firepower: Danylo Riwnyj (Foran CT), Jamie Whitcher (BmthCycleworks VitecFire FordCE), Michael Chadwick (Doncaster Wheelers), Ed Morgan (Muc-Off SRCT-Storck) and Alex Pickering (Ride Revolution Coaching), forming an eight-man move that clicked quickly into gear.
Despite a block headwind on the drag to Widmerpool, the leaders built a 90-second buffer with seven laps to go. Two laps later, the gap had ballooned to over two minutes, aided by a peloton that lacked cohesion and any real appetite for the chase.
With the stage win now clearly up for grabs among the leading octet, attention turned to who would gamble first. Riwnyj showed his hand as the bell sounded, stretching his legs in a probing attack that looked more like a systems check than a genuine escape bid.
But it was no bluff. Having tested the water, the Foran CT man went again on the final rise to the line, launching a stinging effort that proved decisive. Morgan dug deep but couldn’t close the final few metres, leaving Riwnyj to celebrate a well-timed, hard-fought win.
Morgan leads the general classification, thanks to time bonuses picked up in the intermediate sprints. His sharp riding throughout the stage earned him crucial seconds that now separate him from the rest of the breakaway survivors. He holds a 4-second lead over Galea and a 5-second buffer over both Riwnyj and Hurdle. Chadwick, Whitcher, and Pickering all sit within 12 seconds of the leader.
The front seven now enjoy a commanding advantage on GC going into the final two stages, with eighth-placed William Truelove (MUC-OFF–SRCT–STORCK) already trailing by over four minutes. Barring disaster, the final overall winner will likely come from this elite septet.
Phoebe Roche (O’Shea – Development Team) powered to a commanding uphill sprint victory on Stage 1 of the women’s Ronde van Wymeswold (Saturday 14 June), outgunning the bunch at the end of a tightly controlled race and confirming her growing status as one of the peloton’s most dangerous finishers. Noémie Thomson (Brother UK–Team OnForm) produced a commanding ride against the clock to win Stage 2 — a short, sharp road bike time trial — and in doing so leapfrogged into the overall lead.
In the open race, Danylo Riwnyj (Foran CT) took his first National B road race victory in a fiercely contested opening stage, outsprinting Ed Morgan (Muc-Off SRCT-Storck) from a dominant eight-man break that formed early and never looked back.
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Featured image: Matt de-B Photography
Report
Women’s race
Stage 1 | Road race
Updated 16:55 to reflect updated results provided by organiser.
For five laps of the windswept 8.3km Widmerpool circuit, the women’s field played a careful hand. With the afternoon time trial looming large, and the course’s open farmland roads offering scant protection from the breeze, the peloton stayed largely glued together – an uneasy calm settling over the race. Yet there were still valuable seconds up for grabs thanks to the intermediate sprint primes offered on laps 2, 4 and 6.
Zoe Roche (Private Member) was the first to seize the moment, taking maximum bonus seconds at the first sprint at the end of lap two. Georgia Lancaster (Loughborough Lightning) crossed in second, with Arabella Blackburn (Shibden Apex RT) picking up the final second on offer. On lap four, it was Madeline Cooper (Montezuma’s Eventrex) who timed her move best to take the prime ahead of Lancaster and Harriet Martin (Wolfox CAMS Le Col).
It wasn’t until lap six that the race truly flickered into life. Megan Anderson (Team Boompods) launched a solo move, prising open a 12-second advantage. Her effort animated the race, but the pack, unwilling to let her dangle, brought her back before the lap was out. Lancaster snapped up the final sprint prime ahead of Zoe Roche and Blackburn.
Still, there was no decisive move by the time the bell chimed at the end of lap seven. With the field intact and no obvious break on the cards, the finale became a war of legs and lines into the gradual rise to the finish. And it was Phoebe Roche who had both. The Witham Hall Grand Prix winner timed her sprint to perfection, kicking clear of the fray and holding off her fast-finishing younger sister, junior rider Zoe Roche, to take her second win of the season. Cooper, ever consistent, rounded out the podium.
Thanks to the bonus seconds she collected across three intermediate sprints Lancaster ended the stage in the overall lead, two seconds ahead of Zoe Roche, with Cooper at four seconds. The GC picture remained tightly poised ahead of the afternoon’s short, sharp race against the clock.
Stage 2 | Time trial
Noémie Thomson (Brother UK–Team OnForm) produced a commanding ride against the clock on late Saturday afternoon to win Stage 2 — a short, sharp road bike time trial — and in doing so leapfrogged into the overall lead.
Covering the rolling course in 11 minutes and 30 seconds, Thomson was six seconds quicker than Ruby Oakes (DAS-Hutchinson), with Alderney Baker (Team Empella) a further 22 seconds back in third. It was a ride of poise and power from the Brother UK–Team OnForm rider, and took her tally of National B road race wins to three in just five events. Her effort built on a steady showing in the opening road stage, and catapulted her to the top of the general classification with one stage remaining.
Oakes delivered a strong ride to slot into second on both the stage and the GC, 19 seconds down on Thomson. Baker’s third place consolidated her position among the overall contenders, now sitting third overall at +28s.
With Sunday’s final stage set to favour all-rounders and opportunists, Thomson will wear the leader’s jersey with a slender margin but a clear target on her back.
Open race
Stage 1 | Road race
If the women’s opener was a cagey affair, the Open race – 14 laps of the same Tugby-Wymeswold circuit – was anything but. From the drop of the flag, attacks flew off the front, setting the tone for a day of relentless aggression.
First to make a move were Steven Parsonage (DAS-Richardsons), Oliver Hurdle (HUUB Yomp Bonk Crew) and Bernard Galea (Primera-TeamJobs), who carved out a 10-second advantage over half a dozen chasers. The bunch, momentarily stunned, allowed the gap to grow – and when the two groups merged on lap three, a potent group of nine had formed.
That wasn’t the final shake-up. Just before the halfway mark, the race blew apart completely. Parsonage, Hurdle and Galea were joined by a new wave of firepower: Danylo Riwnyj (Foran CT), Jamie Whitcher (BmthCycleworks VitecFire FordCE), Michael Chadwick (Doncaster Wheelers), Ed Morgan (Muc-Off SRCT-Storck) and Alex Pickering (Ride Revolution Coaching), forming an eight-man move that clicked quickly into gear.
Despite a block headwind on the drag to Widmerpool, the leaders built a 90-second buffer with seven laps to go. Two laps later, the gap had ballooned to over two minutes, aided by a peloton that lacked cohesion and any real appetite for the chase.
With the stage win now clearly up for grabs among the leading octet, attention turned to who would gamble first. Riwnyj showed his hand as the bell sounded, stretching his legs in a probing attack that looked more like a systems check than a genuine escape bid.
But it was no bluff. Having tested the water, the Foran CT man went again on the final rise to the line, launching a stinging effort that proved decisive. Morgan dug deep but couldn’t close the final few metres, leaving Riwnyj to celebrate a well-timed, hard-fought win.
Morgan leads the general classification, thanks to time bonuses picked up in the intermediate sprints. His sharp riding throughout the stage earned him crucial seconds that now separate him from the rest of the breakaway survivors. He holds a 4-second lead over Galea and a 5-second buffer over both Riwnyj and Hurdle. Chadwick, Whitcher, and Pickering all sit within 12 seconds of the leader.
The front seven now enjoy a commanding advantage on GC going into the final two stages, with eighth-placed William Truelove (MUC-OFF–SRCT–STORCK) already trailing by over four minutes. Barring disaster, the final overall winner will likely come from this elite septet.
Results
Women’s race
Stage 1 | Road Race
Stage 2 | Time trial
General classification after two stages
Open race
Stage 1 | Road race
General classification after two stages
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