Yanto Barker aiming to sew up Elite Road Series win this weekend

Only Marcin Bialoblocki can prevent Yanto Barker from taking British Cycling Elite Road Series title during Sunday's Ipswich and Coastal Grand Prix

Yanto Barker, Jersey International Road Race 2014

Yanto Barker has to finish in the lead group at the Ipswich and Coastal Grand Prix on Sunday (August 31) to be crowned the overall winner of this year’s British Cycling Elite Road Series.

Team Raleigh’s Barker leads the Series by 21 points from Velosure-Giordana’s Marcin Bialoblocki ahead of this weekend’s race.

Only Polish rider and former leader Bialoblocki can prevent Barker from winning the Series, but Alex Peters (Madison Genesis) and Russell Downing (NFTO) are fighting it out for third place.

Downing leads the GP series from Velosure’s Matt Cronshaw so a high-placed finish could ensure him that title and a podium spot in the Series.

The team event is still open to manoeuvre: Raleigh, NFTO, Madison-Genesis and Velosure-Giordana are separated by just 10 points going into the final round.

The 200km race begins in the centre of Ipswich before heading east to Woodbridge and down a coastal circuit through Alderton and Hollesley. The riders will ride the route five times.

The finale takes place next to Ipswich’s Neptune Marina. Racing starts at 10.30am.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

Chris first started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2013 on work experience and has since become a regular name in the magazine and on the website. Reporting from races, long interviews with riders from the peloton and riding features drive his love of writing about all things two wheels.


Probably a bit too obsessed with mountains, he was previously found playing and guiding in the Canadian Rockies, and now mostly lives in the Val d’Aran in the Spanish Pyrenees where he’s a ski instructor in the winter and cycling guide in the summer. He almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.