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Britain’s Tom Pidcock slipped from first to seventh on the final day of the Tour of Algarve as Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Dani Martinez won the title. Pidcock won the penultimate stage four to hold the overall lead but his time-trial inexperience showed as he placed 19th in the race against the clock. Colombia’s Martinez finished

Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock took the overall lead of the Tour of Algarve by winning stage four. The Ineos Grenadiers rider led a three-man breakaway up the Alto do Malhao in Portugal, before sprinting away to take the leader’s jersey. Pidcock, 23, leads by five seconds from Soudal-Quick-Step’s Ilan van Wilder with UAE Team Emirates’

George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images Tributes have been paid to cyclist Eileen Sheridan – who “blazed a trail for countless female riders” – following her death at the age of 99. The Coventry resident broke all 21 of the Women’s Road Records Association records, with five of them yet to be beaten, British Cycling said.

Katie Archibald won her 20th European title as she and Great Britain team-mate Elinor Barker clinched madison gold in Grenchen. The pair dominated the 120-lap race, finishing with 38 points – 13 more than silver medallists France, while Italy won bronze with 19. Archibald and Barker now have 30 European titles between them. Elsewhere on

Josie Knight and Will Perrett won silver and bronze medals for Great Britain on day four of the UEC European Track Championships in Grenchen. Knight, 25, won silver in the women’s individual pursuit after being beaten by Germany’s Franziska Brausse by more than three seconds in the final. In the men’s omnium, Perrett won bronze

Great Britain’s Katie Archibald and Oliver Wood won gold in the women’s omnium and men’s scratch race at the UEC European Track Championships. Olympic champion Archibald dominated from start to finish in her four-race event to win a 19th European title. Wood powered clear on the final lap of the 15km race to add to

Great Britain won women’s gold and men’s silver in the team pursuit at the UEC European Track Championships. Anna Morris, Josie Knight, Neah Evans and Katie Archibald beat world champions Italy by more than two seconds over the four-kilometre mark. Oliver Wood, Ethan Vernon, Charlie Tanfield and Dan Bigham lost to Italy, the Olympic champions,

Great Britain made a winning start to the UEC European Track Championships by securing two medals on the opening day. The women’s team of Katy Marchant, Emma Finucane and Lauren Bell pushed Germany all the way in sprint final but had to settle for silver. Ali Fielding, Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin lost to the

Getty Images Two men have been jailed for a knifepoint robbery at the family home of elite cyclist Mark Cavendish. Romario Henry, 31, of south-east London, and Ali Sesay, 28, of Kent, broke into Mr Cavendish’s home in Ongar, Essex, on 27 November 2021. Henry, who denied the crime, was found guilty of two counts

British rider Zoe Backstedt won silver in the women’s under-23 race at the Cyclo-cross World Championships. The Netherlands’ Shirin van Anrooij, 21, sealed a dominant victory to take the rainbow jersey in Hoogerheide. She beat 18-year-old Welsh rider Backstedt by 33 seconds at the end of the 45-minute race, with Czech Kristyna Zemanova in third

The 2023 cyclo-cross World Championships start on Friday in Hoogerheide, Netherlands, with live coverage of the elite men’s and women’s races on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app. Defending men’s champion Tom Pidcock will not be competing, however, as he is focusing on road racing but there is plenty

More than 20 years on, Daphny van den Brand can remember the feeling as she looked out over the mud and slopes from the start line. She was bidding for a World Championship crown, but knew more than a title was at stake. She and the rest of the field also had to put on

Katy Marchant and Elinor Barker have been included in Great Britain’s squad for the European Track Championships in what will be their first international competition since giving birth. Olympic bronze medallist Marchant, 30, who gave birth to son Arthur in June 2022, is in the women’s sprint team. Olympic gold and silver medallist Barker, 28,

Tour de France great and three-time world champion Peter Sagan will retire from cycling’s World Tour at the end of this season. The 33-year-old Slovakian will continue to compete, and is aiming for mountain bike gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Sagan won seven green points jerseys at the Tour de France between 2012 and

Getty Images One man has been found guilty of a knifepoint robbery at the family home of elite cyclist Mark Cavendish. Romario Henry, 31, of Bell Green in Lewisham, south-east London, broke into Mr Cavendish’s home in Ongar, Essex, on 27 November 2021. Henry was found guilty of two counts of robbery and will be

Britain’s Simon Yates claimed victory in the last stage of the Santos Tour Down Under to finish second overall. The Team Jayco AlUla rider overtook Australia’s Jay Vine at the uphill finish at Mount Lofty in Adelaide. The 2018 Vuelta a Espana winner made his charge with 1.7km to go and held off the challenge

British rider James Knox has criticised cycling’s concussion protocols, after being disqualified from the Tour Down Under in Australia. Knox, 27, crashed 55km from the end of stage one, but was later disqualified on his way back to the peloton. He believes there is a conflict between Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) rules and rider safety.

Elizabeth Cook/PA Media Elite cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta were “terrorised in their own home” by balaclava-clad raiders wielding knives, a court has been told. Prosecutors have said the athlete was threatened at knifepoint in front of his three-year-old son at the house in Ongar, Essex, in November 2021. Two men are on