News: Crit stars heading for Abergavenny

Olympic Games gold medallist Ed Clancy and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Jon Mould head a star-studded line-up for this Friday’s Wales Open Criterium around Abergavenny town centre.

News: Crit stars heading for Abergavenny

Event Press Release

Olympic Games gold medallist Ed Clancy and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Jon Mould head a star-studded line-up for this Friday’s Wales Open Criterium around Abergavenny town centre.

Winner in 2018, Connor Swift of Madison Genesis

They will be joined by multiple World Cup track golden man Andy Tennant and a host of other leading UK riders all seeking points in this year’s British Elite Circuit Series. The Abergavenny town centre race, which starts at 8pm and is preceded by Youth and Carnival races around the circuit, is round two of the national series.

Clancy, who is riding for the Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK team this year, has won three Olympic Golds and is aiming to race for his fourth in Tokyo in 2020. Meanwhile, Mould, from Newport, won the Elite Circuit Series in 2015 and went on to take silver in the Commonwealth Games road race on the Gold Coast, Australia, last year. The Madison Genesis team 28-year-old will be supported by a formidable seven other team-mates all pushing the Welshman towards victory on a circuit where he has done well in the past.

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That included finishing second in last year’s Abergavenny race behind former national road race champion Connor Swift, who is abroad this year and will miss Friday’s return against the Welshman. Crits favourite Graham Briggs, who is always up among the pack in the Wales Open Criterium each year, is making another return to Abergavenny. The 35-year-old from Doncaster enjoys cycling in Wales that much that he has won the Abergavenny race three times and also added the Chepstow Grand Prix title to his roll of honour in 2015.

Abergavenny Festival of Cycling organiser Bill Owen MBE said this year’s Wales Open Criterium has all the potential to be another cracking race. He said: “Having Ed Clancy and Jon Mould going head-to-head will be one thing but you cannot rule out people like Graham Briggs and many more of the domestic team riders who will make Friday night a real cracker. As usual, the youngsters will warm-up the crowd from early evening before the Traders Cardiac Race will see the town’s businesses dressing up for a bit of fun”.

“The Wales Open Criteriums are always a fantastic evening and, after the Iron Mountain Sportif last Saturday and a superb Cwmtillery Glass Junior Grand Prix of Wales last Sunday at Grosmont, this is going to be a tremendous way to round-off this year’s Festival of Cycling.”

For more information about the Abergavenny Festival of Cycling and this Friday’s Wales Open Criterium extravaganza, go to www.abergavennyfestivalofcycling.co.uk

Startsheet (provisional)
1 Matthew Bostock Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
2 Jacob Hennessy Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
3 Charles Page Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
4 Maximilian Stedman Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
5 Charlie Tanfield Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
6 Andrew Tennant Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
7 Rory Townsend Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
8 Jonathan Dibben Madison Genesis
9 Matthew Holmes Madison Genesis
10 Tobyn Horton Madison Genesis
11 Joseph Laverick Madison Genesis
12 Jonathan McEvoy Madison Genesis
13 Thomas Moses Madison Genesis
14 Jonathan Mould Madison Genesis
15 George Pym Madison Genesis
16 William Brown Ribble Pro Cycling
17 Gruffudd Lewis Ribble Pro Cycling
18 Chris Sherriffs Ribble Pro Cycling
19 William Bjergfelt SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling
20 Stephen Bradbury SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling
21 Edward Laverack SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling
22 Andrew Turner SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling
23 George Wood SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling
24 Mark Donovan Team Wiggins Le Col
25 Ben Healy Team Wiggins Le Col
26 Jacques Sauvagnargues Team Wiggins Le Col
27 Daniel Tulett Team Wiggins Le Col
28 Graham Briggs Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
29 Edward Clancy OBE Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
30 Joe Holt Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
31 Dylan Kerfoot-Robson Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
32 Christopher Latham Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
33 Michael Mottram Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
34 Frederik Scheske Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
35 Alistair Slater Vitus Pro Cycling p/b Brother UK
36 Elliot Barratt Bikestrong KTM
37 Anthony Roberts Meudon Pedal Heaven Le Col RT
38 Christopher Owram PDQ Cycle Coaching
39 Frazer White Pontypool RCC
40 William Harper Saint Piran
41 Cameron Jeffers Saint Piran
42 Steve Lampier Saint Piran
43 Andrew Williams Steele Davis Via Roma RT
44 Aled Jones VCEquipe/FlixOralHygiene/Propulse
45 Kinsey McIlquham Veloflow CC – Rowe & King
46 Joseph Beckingsale Wales Racing Academy
47 Matthew Burke Wales Racing Academy
48 Peter Kibble Wales Racing Academy
49 Joshua Price Wales Racing Academy
50 William Roberts Wales Racing Academy