2019 Road World Championships: Women's road race betting preview and free tips

Free cycling tips, best bet and prediction for the women's world championship road race at Yorkshire 2019.

Where to watch

BBC2 & Eurosport 1, 11.30am Saturday

Best bet

M Vos
4pts 5-2 bet365

Race preview

Home advantage can often be seen as a major edge in sport and no rider at the 2019 Road World Championships has as much as Lizzie Deignan.

The 150 kilometre route taken by the elite women from Bradford to Harrogate passess through Deignan’s home town of Otley, along the roads where she learned her craft before becoming world champion in 2015.

Deignan returned to cycling in April after having her first child a year ago and somewhat surprisingly given her lack of competitive racing she won the British leg of the Women’s Tour in June. But even on home roads, and a partisan Yorkshire crowd behind her, she could struggle to beat old adversary Marianne Vos.

Vos, who pipped Deignan to Olympic gold on The Mall in 2012, won the last of her three world titles in 2013, but she has returned to the top of women’s cycling in dominant fashion after a couple of injury-disrupted seasons.

The Dutch rider has won the overall classification at this year’s Tour de Yorkshire, Tour of Norway and the Tour de L’Ardeche, gaining 16 individual stage wins including four at the Giro Rosa, the biggest race on the women’s calendar.

Saturday’s lumpy test will be no problem for Vos, who excels on all terrain and won on a similar parcour on stage two of this year’s Tour de Yorkshire, when she displayed some true Yorkshire grit in strong winds.

Vos has beaten every rider in the field at some point this year and looks primed to claim the fourth rainbow jersey of her career.

Key stat

A Dutch rider has either won or been second in 12 of the last 13 women's world championship road races.

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