Alice Barnes

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Alice Barnes Road cycling
Alice Barnes (2018)
Alice Barnes (2018)
To person
Date of birth July 17, 1995
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Mountain bike / road
To the team
Current team Canyon // SRAM Racing
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2018 World Champion - team time trial
Last updated: September 17, 2019

Alice Barnes (born July 17, 1995 in Towcester ) is a British cyclist who competes in races on mountain bikes and on the road .

Athletic career

In 2013 Alice Barnes became British Junior Champion in Mountain Bike Cross Country (XC). That same year she was in the Olympic Academy Program of British Cycling added. In 2014 she started for England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and finished fifth in the mountain bike XC. In 2015 she finished second at the British road championship behind the two-time world champion Lizzie Armitstead and thus became U23 champion, in 2016 she was able to repeat this victory.

In 2016 Barnes got a contract with the Drops Cycling Team and finally shifted her focus to road cycling. The following year she was third in the road race at the U23 European Championships and won a stage of the BeNe Ladies Tour . In 2018 she decided one stage of the Thuringia Tour for herself. In September 2018 she became world champion in the team time trial as a member of the Canyon SRAM Racing team , together with her sister Hannah , Elena Cecchini , Trixi Worrack , Lisa Klein and Alena Amjaljussik . The following year she won both British street titles.

Others

Alice Barnes is the younger sister of racing driver Hannah Barnes. In 2018 the two sisters rode together in the Canyon SRAM Racing team . The year before, Hannah Barnes had said in an interview that she would not like to drive on the same team with Alice: If you had a fall, your sister would worry even more than a teammate would anyway.

successes

Street

2015
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British U23 champion - road racing
2016
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British U23 champion - road racing
2017
2018
2019
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial

Mountain bike

2013
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Junior Champion - Cross-Country

Teams

Web links

Commons : Alice Barnes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luke Webber: Alice Barnes aims for Commonwealth Games and World Championship selection in 2014. In: British Cycling. May 27, 2014, accessed September 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Northamptonshire's Alice Barnes finishes fifth in mountain bike event at Commonwealth Games as Canada's Pendrel takes gold. In: Northampton Herald & Post. July 29, 2014, archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on October 11, 2014 .
  3. ^ Sadhbh O'Shea: Commonwealth Games: Pendrel takes gold for Canada. In: cyclingnews.com. July 29, 2014, accessed September 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ National Road Championships: Elite Womens Road Race. In: British Cycling. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Alice Barnes. In: British Cycling. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Joe Robinson: The Barnes sisters: Q&A. In: cyclist.co.uk. September 27, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Barnes, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Towcester