Lizzie Armitstead, Ian Emmerson OBE and Bill Owen were among those to receive awards at British Cycling’s 2016 Annual Awards dinner on Saturday.

Armitstead was honoured with the British Cycling Ride of the Year award, voted for by the public and in association with the Bicycle Association, for her outstanding road world championships victory.

Mr Owen, who founded of the Abergavenny Festival of Cycling, received the Brian Cossavella Trophy for services to event promotion.

He served as chairman and president of Welsh Cycling for over 20 years, having also served on the British Cycling Professional Racing Committee and the British Cycling executive committee in the 1990’s.

Mr Owen was also a founding member of both Abergavenny Cycling Clubs and began promoting grass roots and professional races in 1985.

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Lincoln Grand Prix organiser Mr Emmerson collected the final award of the evening, the Dave Saunders Trophy for services to cycling, from Olympic gold medallist Jason Queally MBE and British Cycling chief executive Ian Drake.

Mr Emmerson served as president of the British Cycling Federation from 1985 to 1995 as well as being a member of the British Olympic Association board and executive committee from 1976 to 1997. He was awarded the OBE for services to sport in 1994.

The event, sponsored Leigh Day and Capital & County, was opened by British Cycling president Bob Howden and over the course of the evening reflected on an amazing 12 months of domestic and international racing.

Hugh Porter hosted the awards and was joined on stage through the evening by a number of figures in British cycle sport including Mick Bennett, technical director of Sweetspot, cyclo-cross world champion Evie Richards and BMX world champion Ross Cullen.