Georgia Baker has capped a faultless Australian team effort to win the Commonwealth Games women’s road race.
Key points:
- Baker had already won two gold medals in the track cycling program
- Australian teammate Sarah Roy claimed the bronze medal
- Rohan Dennis has pulled out of the men’s road race
It is Baker’s third gold medal in Birmingham, after she also won on the track in the team pursuit and the points race.
Teammate Sarah Roy finished third in the 112-kilometre road race at Warwick, south of Birmingham, while Scotland’s Neah Evans took second.
The Australians had the strongest team in the seven-lap race around Warwick and they policed the peloton throughout.
Any attack was marked, with time trial gold medalist Grace Brown doing a power of domestic work.
All six Australians were in the peloton for the finish and they set up a sprint train for Baker, who duly delivered.
Earlier on Sunday, the Australian team announced time trial gold medalist Rohan Dennis had pulled out of the men’s road race because of illness.
AusCycling issued a statement, saying Dennis had been in discomfort on Saturday morning and had been taken to hospital for observation, where he remains.
“As a precaution, Dennis was advised to withdraw from today’s road race, but remains comfortable and under observation,” the statement read.
No other information about Dennis’s condition was available.
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