The field for the start of the Tour de France Femmes race in Paris.
New Zealand Commonwealth Games rider Amy Wollaston has suffered a fractured wrist in the Tour de France Femmes race a week out from the Birmingham Games.
The 21-year-old former world junior track champion from the AG Insurance team was injured in a crash on the second stage of the Tour on Monday (Tuesday NZ time).
Wollaston was only meant to ride the first three stages before leaving for the Commonwealth Games.
She was due to ride on the track and on the road in Birmingham.
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Her AG Insurance NXTG team suffered a second blow on the second stage. Italian rider Gaia Masetti also crashed and was taken, with Wollaston, to hospital for check-ups. A social media post, issued by the Belgian team with a photo of Massetti before the crash, said “Gaia has several stitches, but luckily no broken bones’’.
It would be a cruel blow for Wollaston if she has to miss the Commonwealth Games.
She was ruled out of potential selection for the Tokyo Olympic Games after suffering concussion in early 2021 which sidelined her from training and racing for two months.
Wollaston is a part-time law student at the University of Waikato.
According to Cycling New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games media guide, Wollaston excelled on the track and road as a collegiate athlete.
She won gold in the individual pursuit at the junior track world championships in 2019, also winning silver in the team pursuit in 2018 in Aigle and in Frankfurt.
Equally adept on the road, she is the current under-23 road champion and elite criterium champion, and she won the GP of Morbihan for her Dutch NXTG Racing professional road team.
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