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The British National Hill Climb Championship is a hill climbing competition held annually by Cycling Time Trials with the location varying year on year. The first edition was in 1944 and it has been won by some of the best all-round British cyclists, such as Brian Robinson , Paul Curran , Malcolm Elliot , Chris Boardman and Jeff Williams .
The 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions. The National Track Championships (excluding certain events) were held from 23 to 25 February 2024 at the Manchester Velodrome in Manchester. [1] They are organised and sanctioned by British Cycling, and are open to British cyclists. [2] [3] [4]
Hill climbing is a cycling event, as well as a basic skill of the sport. As events, a hill climb may either be an individual time trial (which forbids cooperation, drafting, or team tactics), a road race or in some cases a gravel race. A hill climb is a competition of sustained climbing, that finishes at a higher altitude than the start line. [2]
The 11th and 12th-placed drivers, and any who fail to complete the course, receive no points. An extra point is given to any driver in the run-off who breaks the outright hill record as it stood at the beginning of the day. As of 2022 there are 30 runoffs, but drivers can only count their 24 best results towards their final points total.
This article lists the main competition climbing events and their results for 2024. This includes the World Cup, World Championships, International Climbing Series ...
31.77 (Matthew Ryder, 2024, British Hill Climb Championship) Wiscombe Park Hillclimb is a British hillclimb , situated in Colyton , Devon . The course, which is 1000 yards (914 metres) in length — the same as Shelsley Walsh — was opened in 1958.
In August of each year, up to six hundred riders take part in the race which centers around a 7.6 mile (12.2 km) climb to the top of New Hampshire's Mount Washington—the highest peak in New England. [1] The Mount Washington Auto Road has an average gradient of 12% and reaches gradients of up to 22%. [1]
Triangle corner, Loton Park Hillclimbing in Great Britain differs from the style of hillclimb motorsport events staged in many other parts of the world, in that courses are generally short — mostly under one mile (1.6 km) in length — and this means that cars and drivers do not generally cross between British events and the longer hillclimbs found in many other parts of Europe.