IOF World Cup Round 1 2026: GB Team Announcement

World Cup Round 1 will be taking place in Locarno, Switzerland from 24-26 April 2026. 

Official event website

Event programme

• Sprint - 24 April 2026
• Sprint Relay - 25 April 2026
• Knock-out Sprint - 26 April 2026

The following athletes have been selected to represent GBR at World Cup 1:

Women

• Cecilie Andersen
• Ellie Bales
• Rachel Brown
• Emma Crawford
• Rachel Duckworth
• Mairi Eades
• Grace Molloy
• Imogen Pieters

No women's reserves selected.

Based on her fantastic 2nd place in the Knock-Out Sprint of the 2025 World Cup Final, and her storming run in the JK Sprint, Grace Molloy has also been pre-selected for this year's World Championships, which will take place in Italy in July. Details of which races Grace will run at WOC will be confirmed at a later date.

Men

• Jim Bailey
• Freddie Carcas
• Sam Griffin
• Nathan Lawson
• Harry McMurtrie
• Peter Molloy
• Eddie Narbett
• Ralph Street
  

First reserve: David Bunn
Second reserve: Finlay Todd

Good luck to all of the team who will be representing Great Britain at the first round of the World Cup 2026!