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Road World Championships: Lucy Garner retires from road race after crash

Lucy Garner (r) of Great Britain in action during training for the UCI World Road Race Championships
Image: Lucy Garner: Was forced to retire after suffering an early fall in Spain

Lucy Garner was forced to retire from the Elite Women's Road Race at the UCI World Championships after an early crash.

The Sky Academy Sports Scholar came off her bike a little over half an hour into the race and, despite resuming, the energy sapping effort required to rejoin the main peloton proved too much and she eventually pulled out of the race.

On a course that was never likely to suit the sprinter, the crash made things harder still for the 19-year-old GB rider and ultimately brought her season to a premature end in Northern Spain.

The race was won by France's Pauline Ferrand-Prevot with Lizzie Armitstead the highest placed Brit, finishing in seventh.

Women’s world road race result

More from Uci Road World Championships 2014

1 Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France), 3:29:21
2 Lisa Brennauer (Germany), same time
3 Emma Johansson (Sweden), st
4 Giorgia Bronzini (Italy), st
5 Tiffany Cromwell (Australia), st
6 Shelley Olds (United States), st
7 Lizzie Armitstead (Great Britain), st
8 Linda Villumsen (New Zealand), st
9 Hanna Solovey (Ukraine), st
10 Marianne Vos (Netherlands), st

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