OTLEY'S Lizzie Armitstead leads a six-strong Great Britain women's squad at this weekend's Road World Championships in Spain.

The 25-year-old newly-crowned UCI Women’s Road World Cup winner and Commonwealth Games gold medallist competes in Saturday's elite women's road race.

The event, which starts at 1pm, is live on BBC Two from 4pm to 5pm and available on the 'red button' from 12.30pm to 2.30pm.

Lizzie will be without the support of Emma Pooley, who retired following her silver medal in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but mountain bike riders Annie Last and Alice Barnes, sister of Hannah Barnes, have made the final cut, as has two-time junior world champion Lucy Garner.

There was no entrant in the women's time trial held on Tuesday because, following Pooley's retirement, no-one was believed to have medal potential.

Burley-in-Wharfedale's Scott Thwaites – who earned a bronze in Glasgow – missed out on final selection for the men's elite road race team, having been included in the initial 14-man short-list.

Britain will be led in Sunday's men's race by 2013 Tour de France winner and recent Vuelta a Espana runner-up Chris Froome, with other squad members being Steve Cummings, Pete Kennaugh, David Millar, Luke Rowe, Ben Swift, Geraint Thomas, Adam Yates and Simon Yates

There is no place for Mark Cavendish, the 2011 world champion, who required shoulder surgery after crashing out of the opening stage of the Tour de France in Harrogate and would not be suited to the hilly Ponferrada road race course, which features 28 climbs in 254.8 kilometres.