Great Britain for 2025 World Championships - Pidcock battles Pogacar; no women for elite road race selected

The 2025 World Championships are taking shape and with only a few days left towards the start of the event, this Sunday with the elite time-trials, more and more national teams announce their lineup. In Great Britain's case we've got Tom Pidcock and Oscar Onley chasing a medal in the main event, but in several races there will be less riders than those allowed or even none, as is the case with the women's road race.

The true surprise comes in the form of having only one elite woman on the selection, which is Anna Henderson who will only do the time-trial event on the opening Sunday. No-one will be representing Great Britain at the difficult road race. But on the men's side the team can aim high with Tom Pidcock who is just out of a Vuelta a España where he rode to third place and showed extraordinary form, and can legitimately battle for a medal.

He is joined most importantly by Oscar Onley, who was fourth at the recent Tour de France, but is a big question mark due to his current form. Joe Blackmore, Mark Donovan, Oliver Knight, James Knox, Bjorn Koerdt and Fred Wright complete the lineup for Rwanda.

On the men's side only Callum Thornley will make the trip, participating in the road race solely. However on the women's side the national team will start with high ambitions, having Zoë Backstedt doing the time-trial (only) together with Millie Couzens. The latter will join Cat Ferguson, Flora Perkinsm Eilidh Shaw and Imogen Wolff in the road race event.

On the men's side Harry Hudson, Matthew Peace, Max Hinds and Dylan Sage will be racing, with the latter two doing both road race and time-trial. On the women's side there will be five riders in total with Abi Miller and Erin Boothman doing both road race and time-trial, whilst Arabella Blackburn, Gabriella McHugh and Mabli Phillips will be doing the road race only.