Jessica Roberts
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| Full name | Jessica Anne Roberts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Jess | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 April 1999 Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Coop–Repsol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018–2019 | Team Breeze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2020–2021 | Mitchelton–Scott[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022- | Team Coop–Hitec Products | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jessica Anne Roberts (born 11 April 1999) is a British cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Team Coop–Repsol.[2]
She was part of the Great Britain squad which won gold in the team pursuit at the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark.[3][4] Later at the event she won silver in the omnium.[5]
Career
[edit]Roberts won the British National Road Race Championships in 2018. Her sister, Amy Roberts is also a professional cyclist.[6]
Roberts won her third national title at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, she won the Team Pursuit for the third time, after previously winning the title in 2017 and 2019.[7]
Major results
[edit]Road
[edit]- 2016
- 2nd Road race, National Junior Championships
- 4th Time trial, UEC European Junior Championships
- 6th Overall Energiewacht Tour Juniors
- 2017
- Healthy Ageing Tour Juniors
- 1st Prologue & Stage 3
- 4th Overall EPZ Omloop van Borsele
- 5th Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 2018 (1 pro win)
- 1st
Road race, National Championships - 6th Dwars door de Westhoek
- 2019 (2)
- Tour Series
- 1st Redditch
- 1st Motherwell
- 1st Aberdeen
- 1st Wortegem–Petegem
- 5th Overall Tour de Bretagne
- 1st Stages 4 & 5
Track
[edit]- 2016
- 2nd
Points race, UCI World Junior Championships - UEC European Junior Championships
- 3rd
Omnium - 3rd Team pursuit
- 3rd
- 2017
- 2nd Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2018
- National Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Omnium
- 3rd Points race
- 1st
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2nd
Madison (with Megan Barker) - 2nd Team pursuit
- 2nd
- 6th Dwars door de Westhoek
- 2019
- European Games
- 1st
Madison (with Megan Barker) - 2nd
Team pursuit
- 1st
- 1st
Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Championships - 1st Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2022
- 2nd Scratch, UEC European Championships
- 3rd
Scratch, UCI World Championships - 2023
- National Championships
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2024
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 2nd Omnium
- 1st
- UEC European Championships
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 3rd Elimination
- 2nd
- 3rd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
References
[edit]- ^ Weislo, Laura (8 January 2020). "2020 Team Preview: Mitchelton-Scott Women". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ "Jessica Roberts". Procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ "GB win women's team pursuit gold at World Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "'We came out swinging' - Great Britain make sensational catch to win team pursuit gold at World Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "GB's Finucane powers to gold to defend world sprint title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ^ "Jessica Roberts". ProCyclingStats.com. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ "2023 British Cycling Track Championships Results". Velo UK. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
External links
[edit]- Jess Roberts at British Cycling
- Jess Roberts at Team GB
- Jessica Roberts at UCI
- Jessica Roberts at ProCyclingStats
- Jessica Roberts at Team Wales
- Jessica Roberts at Olympics.com
- Jessica Roberts at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Jessica Roberts at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
 UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Women's team pursuit | |
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Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Welsh female cyclists
- British female cyclists
- British cycling road race champions
- European Games medalists in cycling
- European Games gold medalists for Great Britain
- European Games silver medalists for Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 2019 European Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medalists in cycling
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)