{"id":111024,"date":"2025-09-01T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111024\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:12:09","slug":"robyn-clay-seals-british-national-road-series-cycling-title-and-rapha-super-league-taking-clean-sweep-of-domestic-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111024\/","title":{"rendered":"Robyn Clay seals British National Road Series cycling title and Rapha Super-League, taking clean sweep of domestic competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventh place in the final round was enough for Robyn Clay (DAS-Hutchinson) to clinch the National Road Series<\/a> on Sunday, completing an impressive treble in also winning the National Circuit Series and the inaugural Rapha Super-League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old first earned the white leader\u2019s jersey in May, going on to win the Tour of the Reservoir in June, and placing consistently in or near the top 10 in all seven events of the series. In Sunday\u2019s curtain closer, the Wentworth Woodhouse Grand Prix in South Yorkshire, Clay went in with the plan to \u201cstay out of trouble\u201d, and guarantee her series lead.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe just had to follow,\u201d she said afterwards, adding that winning her first National Road Series title \u201cmeans a lot \u2013 I didn\u2019t really expect it coming into this season. In the first few rounds I did, I did better than I expected, but it was a slow start. It\u2019s really nice that it\u2019s come round this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Clay\u2019s breakthrough year was rewarded with a call-up to race the Tour de l\u2019Avenir<\/a> for Great Britain last week, where she finished 53rd. Last season, her spring was blighted by a finish-line crash in which she broke four vertebrae in her back, and had to undergo surgery for a fractured collarbone.<\/p>\n

Her dominance this year means she secured the National Road Series by 57 points ahead of Smurfit Westrock\u2019s Holly Ramsey (280 to 223), and won the Rapha Super-League \u2013 which comprises sixteen events including road races, criteriums and the National Championships \u2013 by a narrow five points ahead of track cycling Olympian Anna Morris<\/a> (346 to 341).<\/p>\n

It was Clay\u2019s DAS-Hutchinson team-mate, Tammy Miller, who won the final round in the grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse, a Grade I listed mansion. The victory marked four on the trot in the series for the squad, and came after an 80km solo, Miller attacking just two laps into the five-lap race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea how they let me get away,\u201d the 25-year-old said. \u201cOnce I had a gap, there was obviously not too much cohesion behind. The girls were doing a really, really great job blocking, and that definitely helped maintain the lead. I knew I needed to save something for if I still had a gap with a lap to go, which I did, so at that point it was just dig deep and hope for the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With the season now over, series winner Clay\u2019s next appointment is a holiday to Florida, where she plans to visit Disneyland.<\/p>\n

Howell in disbelief at National Series win<\/p>\n

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At just 20 years old, Adam Howell never even dreamed of winning the National Road Series this season. But after claiming two victories from six, the MUC-OFF-SRCT-STORCK rider wrapped up the title at Sunday\u2019s Wentworth Woodhouse Grand Prix, with a shaky 15th place.<\/p>\n

The final round was won by James McKay, in a one-two for his Wheelbase Cabtech Castelli<\/a> team. The event came down to a reduced bunch sprint, from which Howell was absent, having stopped mid-race to fix a loose saddle.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo take the overall series lead doesn\u2019t quite feel real,\u201d he told Cycling Weekly. \u201cIf you told me last year I\u2019d even have a chance to have the leader\u2019s jersey for a stage, let alone keep it for the entire season, I wouldn\u2019t have believed you. I still can\u2019t quite believe it myself at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

After winning the opening round in the East Cleveland Classic, Howell took top spot in the Tour of the Reservoir in June. McKay\u2019s victory at Wentworth was also his second of the series, having triumphed too in the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty hectic coming into this narrow road,\u201d McKay said on Sunday. \u201cI overshot the corner and ended up on the gravel, but it opened up nicely for me. Tom [Armstrong, Wheelbase team-mate who finished second] would have won, but I think his gears went into crash mode or some such malarkey at the finish\u2026 I\u2019m a bit gutted for him in a way, because I\u2019ve already won a round, but I had to sprint because I didn\u2019t know if other guys were coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Matt Bostock (TEKKERZ CC) secured the Rapha Super-League title, with his performances across summer of crits enough to pip William Truelove (MUC-OFF-SRCT-STORCK).<\/p>\n

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