British Cycling publishes Women's Strategy update
British Cycling has published a six month update on its women’s strategy, announcing that around 106,000 women have participated in the sport governing body’s programmes so far this year.
Our big ambition is to get one million more women cycling by 2020. And the signs from this six month update are encouraging. The headline results include:
- Getting 23,000 women on bikes through British Cycling’s Breeze programme of female-only rides
- Attracting more than 37,000 women to attend Sky Ride City events in 2013 – over a third of the total attendees were women
- Inspiring 6,000 women to attend Sky Ride Local rides. Again, women made up over a third of total attendees
- Attracting 24,000 women to take part in personal challenge rides – known as sportives – a 7% increase on last year
- Almost 4,000 women have attended Social Cycling Group rides – almost a third of all participants in Social Cycling Group rides are now women
- Increasing the number of females taking part in its Go-Ride development programme for young people by 10,000
- Since March 2013, British Cycling has trained 10% more female coaches than in the same period last year.
British Cycling’s Chief Executive, Ian Drake, said:
‘In the six months since we launched our strategy we’ve made some great progress and our plan to get one million more women cycling over the next seven years is firmly on track. We’ve got some fantastic headline figures that we’re announcing today. The introduction of the Women’s Tour from next year can only build momentum further. We know that British Cycling has a long journey ahead to change the culture of our sport but we are heading in the right direction.’
