Pooley the favourite for national championships after Trentino win

Emma Pooley

Emma Pooley clinched the overall classification at the Giro del Trentino stage race in Italy - a result that will make her the favourite to end Nicole Cooke's reign as British national road race champion on Sunday.

The 27-year-old Cervélo Test Team rider sealed her seventh major win of the season on Sunday, which also makes her Britain's most successful rider on the road this year.

Britain's Sharon Laws, Pooley's Cervélo team-mate, was eighth on the final stage and finished ninth overall. Pooley also won the mountains jersey.

Pooley said: "It went really well today. We kept the jersey, the team worked hard and rode very aggressively and we were able to make some attacks. It was wet and cold and the team really held it together to achieve another great result."

Last month Pooley won the Tour de l'Aude stage race in France and in April she took the Flèche Wallonne World Cup race.

On Sunday, she will line up with her two Cervélo team-mates, Laws and Lizzie Armitstead, at the National Championships in Lancashire.

1. Emma Pooley - 7 wins

Flèche Wallonne

stage win, Tour de l'Aude

overall, Tour de l'Aude

2. David Millar - 3 wins

4. Ben Swift - 2 wins

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