Alyssa Rowse raced to an impressive 58th place out of 92 in the junior women’s road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Bergen, Norway, yesterday.

With one of the final call-ups to the start-line, Rowse began with a slight disadvantage, but quickly moved up towards the front and held a good position through the first half of the four-lap race, which included the fairly steep Salmon Hill and then continued thought the streets of Norway’s second largest city for a total of 76.4 kilometres.

Finishing approximately ten minutes behind the winner in a group of 14 riders, Rowse’s race experience is one which she will both cherish and take away some good learning points.

“Once I was able to get to the front of the race it was a steady ride,” Rowse said. “I need to work on my climbing but I found that on the descents I was making up ground on others. The pack was quite tight and there were several times when I was hitting wheels with others but that seems to have worked out OK.”

Kaden Hopkins and Matthew Oliveira, will race a total of 133.8 kilometres in the junior men’s road race today.