# Alice Barnes

Alice Wood (née Barnes) (born 17 July 1995) is an English former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam Human Powered Health.

## Career

Barnes enjoyed success at the UK School Games in Sheffield in 2011, where she not only won the individual mountain bike event, but also rode solo in the relay, beating the fastest of the four-rider teams by several seconds. She joined the British Cycling Olympic Academy Programme in 2013. Barnes was selected for the England team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she finished fifth in the mountain bike race. She also rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
She finished second to Lizzie Armitstead in the elite women's race at the 2015 British National Road Race Championships in Lincoln, becoming national under-23 champion in the process. Later that year she was part of the Great Britain team that helped to deliver Armitstead to the World Championship elite road race title in Richmond, Virginia. On the road Barnes won the opening event of the Tour Series in Redditch. Racing in the 2017 National Women's Road Series, she won the Lincoln Grand Prix.
In September 2017, Barnes signed a contract with the Canyon–SRAM team. She remained with the team until the end of the 2022 season, before joining Human Powered Health on a two-year contract.

## Personal life

She is the sister of fellow racing cyclist Hannah Barnes.

## Major results

Source:

### 2010

    1st Cross-country, National Youth Mountain Bike Championships

### 2011

    1st Cross-country, National Youth Mountain Bike Championships
    2nd Criterium, National Youth Road Championships
    National Youth Track Championships
       2nd Madison (with Melissa Lowther)
       2nd Points race

### 2013

    1st Junior race, National Cyclo-cross Championships

### 2014

    5th Cross-country, Commonwealth Games
    7th Under-23 cross-country, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships

### 2015

    National Road Championships
       1st Under-23 road race
       2nd Road race
    2nd Cross-country, National Mountain Bike Championships
    5th Women's Tour de Yorkshire

### 2016

    National Road Championships
       1st Under-23 road race
       2nd Road race
       2nd Criterium
    1st London Nocturne
    2nd Madison, National Track Championships (with Ellie Dickinson)
    4th Women's Tour de Yorkshire
    5th Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
    10th RideLondon Grand Prix

### 2017

    2nd Overall BeNe Ladies Tour
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 1
    3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    6th Overall The Women's Tour
    7th Gent–Wevelgem
    8th Ronde van Drenthe
    9th Overall Women's Tour Down Under

### 2018

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    1st Stage 6 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
    9th RideLondon Classique

### 2019

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    2nd Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana Feminas
    2nd Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT
    European Games
       4th Road race
       4th Time trial
    UEC European Road Championships
       5th Road race
       9th Time trial
    5th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour

### 2020

    6th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
    9th Overall Challenge by La Vuelta
    10th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues

### 2021

    1st Stage 3 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
    7th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
    7th Overall The Women's Tour
    8th Classic Brugge–De Panne

### 2022

    5th Overall Bloeizone Fryslân Tour
       1st Points classification
    6th Ronde van Drenthe
    8th Classic Brugge–De Panne
    8th Le Samyn des Dames
    10th Road race, Commonwealth Games