CTT ducks call for prize money equality

Governing body promises to appoint a director to look into gender equality, reports Vern Pitt

- Vern Pitt

Cycling Time Trials refused to make prize money for men and women equal at its board meeting on Sunday. The sport’s governing body has come under pressure from campaigners to mandate that prize money for men and women should be equal as a way of beginning to unlock greater gender equality within the male-dominated sport.

There had been hopes among those campaigning for the change that elections to the board of a number of sympathetic directors might have swayed the CTT.

However, at the CTT board meeting last Sunday the board unanimously decided not to make prize money equal.

Instead, it said it would appoint a director to develop ways to increase female participation within the sport.