Team England’s Emma Pooley will seek to call time on her glittering TT career with gold in the women’s time trial.
Pooley has announced she will hang up her cleats after Sunday’s road race and the 31-year-old will start Thursday’s preceding 30km time trial as one of the favourites for the title, with a pedigree which includes a rainbow jersey in 2010 and a third national title in June. Pooley also won three stages of the prestigious Giro d’Italia Femminile earlier this month and should arrive in Glasgow in fine form.
However, Pooley will face fierce competition from New Zealand’s Linda Villumsen. The Danish-born rider, who became a citizen of New Zealand in 2009, is a perennial contender against the clock, winning medals at five successive world championships, with bronze in 2009 (with Denmark), 2010 and 2012, and silver in 2011 and 2013. The 29-year-old also won Commonwealth Games silver in Delhi four years ago and will be favourite to triumph in Glasgow.
Meanwhile, Team Wales rider Elinor Barker, the 2012 world junior time trial champion and one of the rising stars of British cycling, will attempt to win a third medals of these Games having also won silver and bronze on the track in the points and scratch races.
Finally, Katie Archibald will fly the flag for Scotland and, like Barker, the 20-year-old has already enjoyed success on the track in Glasgow, winning a bronze medal in the points race.
