Elisa Balsamo of (Italy) wins 2016 UCI world Junior women road race championship in #Doha, Qatar.

2016 Women UCI World Junior Road Race Championship in #Doha, Qatar#.                                      Elisa Balsamo took a commanding victory in the junior women road race at the World Championships in #Doha, beating her rivals by a clear margin. Balsamo, who finished sixth in Richmond last year, capitalised on a strong lead-out from her Italian teammates to beat the (USA's) Skylar Schneider on the long drag to the finish line. Susanne Andersen made it another medal for (Norway)

as she sprinted to third place. The junior women had an early start to the day, setting off at 8:30 local time for four laps of the 15.2km circuit of the Pearl. A big crash in the opening kilometre caught out a lot of riders and set off a mad scramble for new bikes. After seven kilometres, a large group of 28 riders jumped clear but they couldn’t hold it and the peloton came back together by the end of the first lap.