Grace Brown wins women's road cycling time trial at 2022 Commonwealth Games
The Australian won the Birmingham 2022 race by 33 seconds, with England's Anna Henderson and New Zealand's Georgia Williams winning silver and bronze respectively.
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Australia's Grace Brown blasted to victory in the women's road cycling time trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games on Thursday (4 August).
Just four days after completing the Tour de France Femmes, the 30-year-old led at three checkpoints to before completing the 29km route through Wolverhampton in 40:05.20.
Victory will taste especially sweet for Brown who finished just out of the medals in fourth-place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021.
Home hero Anna Henderson sealed silver with an impressive outing 33.35 seconds back, while New Zealand's Georgia Williams completed the podium in 41:25.27.
"I had the target on my back. I tried not to take on too much of the pressure of being the favourite, just staying calm and focusing on what I had to do," Brown said after.
"I caught the two girls in front of me which is always positive, but you still don't know if someone earlier in the field has gone faster. The team didn't tell me I was ahead until the last five kilometres so I assumed no news was good news."It's a landmark. From an Australian perspective, to be a gold medallist at a Commonwealth Games is something Australian sport acknowledges."
Brown's compatriot Georgia Baker, who won the points race earlier in the week and was part of the winning team pursuit, finished fourth.
Glasgow 2014 bronze medallist Ashleigh Moolman Pasio of South Africa was expected to challenge for a medal, but was a late withdrawal from the race due to injury.
Women's time trial results at Birmingham 2022
1 Grace Brown, Australia - 40.05.20
2 Anna Henderson, England - 40.38.55
3 Georgia Williams, New Zealand - 41.25.27
4 Georgia Baker, Australia - 41.44.85
5 Lizzie Holden, Isle of Man - 41.48.78
6 Rebecca Storrie, Isle of Man - 41.53.49
7 Teniel Campbell, Trinidad & Tobago - 42.07.99
8 Elynor Backstedt, Wales - 42.15.16
9 Sarah Roy, Australia - 42.26.44
10 Anna Shackley, Scotland - 42.48.77
How to watch 2022 Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games will be broadcast live in many parts of the world.
UK: BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and BBC website.
Canada: CBC Sports, CBC Sports app
Australia: Channel 7, 7Plus
New Zealand: Sky, TVNZ
India: Sony LIV
Singapore: Mediacorp's free-to-air Channel 5, meWATCH, and YouTube.
Malaysia: RTM
**Further TV broadcast and digital live streaming details can be found on the **Commonwealth Games website here.