News: Alice Barnes 3rd at Euros

Britain’s Alice Barnes was third in the Under 23 European Road Race Championship in Denmark

News: Alice Barnes 3rd at Euros

Britain’s Alice Barnes was third in the Under 23 European Road Race Championship in Denmark. The Drops Cycling rider, who won her first ever professional win last month, was third in a bunch sprint finish behind Denmark’s Pernille Mathieson who solo’d to victory before Susanne Andersen (Norway) won the bunch kick ahead of Barnes.

With 40km remaining, the Danish pair of Pernille Mathieson and Cecile Uttrup Ludwig took turns to attack, before under-23 time trial champion Mathieson made her move. Barnes responded, along with Serbia’s Jelena Eric, Jeanne Korevaar of Netherlands and Eraud Severine of France – the five managing to hold a fluctuating lead of between five and fifteen seconds.

With 19km remaining, the peloton managed to swallow up the bulk of the lead group – but Mathieson continued her aggressive riding to pull clear on her own. As the race headed back towards the finish, Mathieson was starting to slow which saw her lead start to tumble, with the peloton making up 15 seconds on the Dane with just 3km remaining but the home rider stayed clear to win before the sprint for the remaining medals.