Road World Championships: Lucy Garner retires from road race after crash
Monday 29 September 2014 09:59, UK
Lucy Garner was forced to retire from the Elite Women's Road Race at the UCI World Championships after an early crash.
The Sky Academy Sports Scholar came off her bike a little over half an hour into the race and, despite resuming, the energy sapping effort required to rejoin the main peloton proved too much and she eventually pulled out of the race.
On a course that was never likely to suit the sprinter, the crash made things harder still for the 19-year-old GB rider and ultimately brought her season to a premature end in Northern Spain.
The race was won by France's Pauline Ferrand-Prevot with Lizzie Armitstead the highest placed Brit, finishing in seventh.
Women’s world road race result
1 Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France), 3:29:21
2 Lisa Brennauer (Germany), same time
3 Emma Johansson (Sweden), st
4 Giorgia Bronzini (Italy), st
5 Tiffany Cromwell (Australia), st
6 Shelley Olds (United States), st
7 Lizzie Armitstead (Great Britain), st
8 Linda Villumsen (New Zealand), st
9 Hanna Solovey (Ukraine), st
10 Marianne Vos (Netherlands), st
