Alice Barnes (born 17 July 1995) is an English racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Career
Barnes enjoyed success at the UK School Games in Sheffield in 2011, where she not only won the individual mountain bike event, but also rode solo in the relay, beating the fastest of the four-rider teams by several seconds. She joined the British Cycling Olympic Academy Programme in 2013. Barnes was selected for the England team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she finished fifth in the mountain bike race. She also rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
She finished second to Lizzie Armitstead in the elite women's race at the 2015 British National Road Race Championships in Lincoln, becoming national under-23 champion in the process. Later that year she was part of the Great Britain team that helped to deliver Armitstead to the World Championship elite road race title in Richmond, Virginia. On the road Barnes won the opening event of the Tour Series in Redditch. Racing in the 2017 National Women's Road Series, she won the Lincoln Grand Prix.
In September 2017, Barnes signed a contract with the team. She remained with the team until the end of the 2022 season, before joining on a two-year contract.
Personal life
She is the sister of fellow racing cyclist Hannah Barnes.
Major results
Source:
2010
1st Cross-country, National Youth Mountain Bike Championships
2011
1st Cross-country, National Youth Mountain Bike Championships
2nd Criterium, National Youth Road Championships
National Youth Track Championships
2nd Madison (with Melissa Lowther) 2nd Points race 2013 1st Junior race, National Cyclo-cross Championships 2014 5th Cross-country, Commonwealth Games 7th Under-23 cross-country, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships 2015 National Road Championships 1st Under-23 road race 2nd Road race 2nd Cross-country, National Mountain Bike Championships 5th Women's Tour de Yorkshire 2016 National Road Championships 1st Under-23 road race 2nd Road race 2nd Criterium 1st London Nocturne 2nd Madison, National Track Championships (with Ellie Dickinson) 4th Women's Tour de Yorkshire 5th Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska 10th RideLondon Grand Prix 2017 2nd Overall BeNe Ladies Tour 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 1 3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 6th Overall The Women's Tour 7th Gent–Wevelgem 8th Ronde van Drenthe 9th Overall Women's Tour Down Under 2018 1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships 1st Stage 6 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 9th RideLondon Classique 2019 National Road Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial 2nd Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana Feminas 2nd Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT European Games 4th Road race 4th Time trial UEC European Road Championships 5th Road race 9th Time trial 5th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour 2020 6th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 9th Overall Challenge by La Vuelta 10th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues 2021 1st Stage 3 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 7th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour 7th Overall The Women's Tour 8th Classic Brugge–De Panne 2022 5th Overall Bloeizone Fryslân Tour 1st Points classification 6th Ronde van Drenthe 8th Classic Brugge–De Panne 8th Le Samyn des Dames 10th Road race, Commonwealth Games
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
English female cyclists
Place of birth missing (living people) British cycling road race champions European Games competitors for Great Britain Cyclists at the 2019 European Games Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for England