So most of the riders that had been on the high of the leaderboard within the 2025 ProVelo Tremendous League have secured contracts to race abroad, taking the following step on the trail to the WorldTour, and the query now that the collection is completed for one more yr is – who will observe that trajectory in 2026?
The highest three within the ladies’s general in 2025, Sophie Marr, Talia Appleton and Alli Anderson all landed at Liv Alula Jayco within the ladies’s improvement squad connected to the WorldTeam. Within the males’s class, Jack Ward had a number of presents to select from and the multi-discipline rider was racing with Lidl-Trek Future by mid-season, whereas second-placed Zachary Marriage carved out a spot on the NSN Devo‘ staff.
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Oliver Bleddyn (Workforce Brennan) – Males’s general collection winner
Oliver Bleddyn has confirmed he can excel on the highest stage on the observe, successful an Olympic gold medal in Paris alongside Sam Welsford, Kelland O’Brien and Conor Leahy with the Australian Workforce Pursuit squad. 2026 rapidly grew to become a yr the place he was displaying simply how robust he additionally was on the street, beginning proper from his very first occasion, the Australian Nationwide Championships particular person time trial the place the Workforce Brennan rider got here second to Jay Vine (UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG).
He then missed the opening spherical of the ProVelo collection in Adelaide as there was one other huge alternative to chase, that was a spot within the Australian nationwide staff for the Santos Tour Down Beneath and Mapei Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Street Race. His robust displaying within the WorldTour racing – with a high ten within the prologue in South Australia and a consequence inside the highest 20 general – nonetheless, was an indication of what was to return.
As soon as into the ProVelo Tremendous League on the Tour of Tasmania the 24-year-old rapidly made up for misplaced time, successful one stage, coming second in one other because the observe rider confirmed spectacular resilience on the climbs. He then delivered robust outcomes via the remainder of the occasions which included an general win at Harbour Metropolis GP and a second on GC within the ultimate occasion. That sealed a clear-cut general collection win with 481 factors and teammate Levi Hone in second place on 363 factors.
The plan now could be to make a mark on the Oceania Championships, carry that staff momentum because the squad heads to Europe and hopefully in the end be a part of his Olympic gold medal-winning companions, Welsford and O’Brien, within the WorldTour.
Sophia Sammons (Workforce Redcat) – Ladies’s general and U23 collection winner
Sophia Sammons was a robust performer within the ProVelo Tremendous League in 2025, ending fifth general, however with one other yr of expertise the 20 yr outdated has stepped as much as one other stage. That began in 2026 with claiming the Australian U23 ladies’s time trial title in Perth and continued into the ProVelo Tremendous League.
What to learn subsequent
The rider who has made her intent of turning skilled clear began with a fourth general on the opening spherical, SA Kick It, however actually acquired on the entrance foot on the Tour of Tasmania when she took off on stage 2 to Penguin and received solo with a niche not far off two minutes to her nearest rival. That effort additionally helped her clinch the Tour general and launch into high spot within the collection, regardless of a crash on stage 3 which left her lining up for the ultimate day of racing bandaged up.
Her willpower to carry on to that high spot was clear, with robust outcomes that included the rostrum as soon as once more on the Harbour Metropolis GP. The Western Australian then completed the collection in type, successful the final stage solo and likewise claiming the Q Tour general whereas securing the collection victory in each the general ladies’s and U23 ladies’s class.
After the stellar home season for Sammons her consideration will as soon as once more this yr flip to Europe. Spain, like final yr, is the deliberate vacation spot, and final yr after delivering robust outcomes on a nationwide stage she lined up in a number of UCI races, sweeping up eleventh within the 1.1 ranked Chrono Féminin de Gatineau. The intention this yr is to tackle as many UCI races as doable, then hopefully line up as a part of the Australian staff for the Street World Championships in September.
Levi Hone (Workforce Brennan) – U23 males’s collection winner
Levi Hone had undoubtedly marked himself as a rider to observe even earlier than 2026 had begun, successful the race to the highest of Mt Buffalo on the ultimate stage of the Tour of Shiny with an effort that displayed the savvy and energy that belied his years. The 19-year-old Workforce Brennan rider then had a robust begin to the ProVelo Tremendous League collection with eighth general at SA Kick It in January. Nonetheless it was at Tour of Tasmania the place he actually got here into his personal, taking the general tour win.
After high fives at each the Harbour Metropolis GP and Squadron Vitality Grafton to Inverell, Hone then clinched the U23 collection title and second general within the collection together with his second place on the ultimate Mount Mee stage and third general on the Q Tour.
Once we spoke to Hone on the finish of final yr about what was forward in 2026, and if the yr forward may very well be a launching level for him he mentioned „I might prefer to suppose so, I will simply take it in the future at a time and see how I’m going“. After simply three months of racing he has already made loads of these days depend and there ought to be lots extra alternatives via the rest of the yr, which quickly will embrace a stable block of racing in Europe with Workforce Brennan.
Neve Parslow (ARA Skip Capital) – U19 ladies’s collection winner
Neve Parslow is one other of these riders who stood out on the Tour of Shiny after which adopted via within the high tier home collection, although she was undoubtedly on the radar earlier than that, with the highly effective observe performer having additionally secured eighth within the ladies’s junior street race on the Rwanda World Championships in September.
It is maybe not stunning then that in December the, on the time, 17-year-old rider regarded proper at dwelling using alongside WorldTour skilled Brodie Chapman on the opening stage of the Tour of Shiny to the highest of Tawonga Hole, coming second. The ARA – Skip Capital rider then continued the momentum into the brand new yr, dominating the ladies’s junior nationwide title races by taking each the person time trial and street titles plus coming second on the criterium.
On entering into the competitors on the ProVelo Tremendous League in South Australia, the place the U19 classes raced alongside the opposite classes, Parslow was fast to step ahead as one of many strongest contenders in her age group but in addition confirmed that she was able to transferring within the entrance sections of the general area as effectively. Parslow, who turned 18 in March, even managed three high ten GC finishes throughout the collection, with ninth general on the Tour of Tasmania and sixth on the Harbour Metropolis GP earlier than a 3rd place on the ultimate stage of the ultimate race of the season, the Q Tour, noticed her land on the stage podium and likewise shift as much as fourth general at that occasion.
Parslow’s efficiency left her because the undisputed winner of the U19 ladies’s class for the collection, sweeping up 177 factors – greater than 4 instances as many as her nearest rival. Subsequent up for Parslow is that this week’s Oceania Street Race Championships the place the she might effectively add a continental title to her assortment.
Connor Wright (Falcons Pedal Mafia) – U23 males’s collection winner
Connor Wright (Falcons Pedal Mafia) is one a kind of riders who has been making his mark on the mountain bike however can also be proving to be a dab hand on the street, similar to final yr’s collection winner Ward. The 17 yr outdated was already proving his expertise on the paved surfaces in January when he received the junior time trial on the Australian Street Nationwide Championships and likewise stood on the rostrum within the criterium and street race.
When he stepped into the ProVelo collection at SA Kick It it was by no means going to be for the total collection, with mountain bike ambitions calling after the second spherical. Nonetheless, although he raced simply SA Kick It and Tour of Tasmania after the performances he managed to ship at these occasions there was no questioning that he had walked away from the collection having made a profound impression. There have been two levels in South Australia the place he got here eighth, which was spectacular sufficient, however then he leapt as much as an entire new stage in Tasmania.
Wright began with a second place within the brief however sharp uphill time trial in Launceston, took fifth on stage 2 after which he sprinted to victory on stage 3 after holding with the lead group of 9 on the ultimate climb and successful the battle on the high. After a twelfth within the ultimate stage criterium he managed to complete on the Tour of Tasmania GC podium too. Hiis collected outcomes after two rounds of racing had been sufficient to maintain him on the high of the U19 males’s collection leaderboard via until the tip, although he did not pin on a quantity once more within the ProVelo racing.
That, nonetheless, doesn’t suggest he wasn’t nonetheless proving his potential to build up outcomes. Wright, who final yr completed sixth within the junior cross-country Olympic race on the World Championships, defended each his junior males’s Oceania XCO mountain bike title in March and likewise his Australian XCO and short-track titles, making him a multi-discipline prospect that could be laborious for groups to not take discover of.
Honorable mentions
There have been additionally plenty of different riders that won’t have walked away with classification wins, however had been laborious to look previous however. Amongst these riders who lit up levels and stepped as much as the podiums had been one other mountain biker, Ruby Taylor (Workforce Redcat) who dipped in for the Tour of Tasmania and Mt Mitchell to Inverell. The 18-year-old snared not one, however two levels in Tasmania after which additionally completed within the high ten of the one-day race in New South Wales earlier than turning her consideration again to the mountain bike. Then there was second-placed general Sophie Edwards (Butterfields Ziptrak) who swept up one other Melbourne to Warrnambool title, plus the Harbour Metropolis GP general and second general on the Q Tour. The 20-year-old Keira Will (Workforce Redcat), who was additionally juggling observe commitments, was impressively constant when lining up, not strolling away from any of the three occasions she raced in with out no less than one journey to the rostrum and two of these had been stage high steps. The 18-year-old Amelie Sanders (Meridian BikeBug) was additionally by no means distant from the entrance throughout the 4 occasions she took on, not as soon as delivering a consequence out of the highest 6.
The 17-year-old Alistair Forsyth of the (VIS p/b Ok.O.M.P) impressed by claiming the Q Tour criterium, considerably unexpectedly nonetheless after Tom Cornish (Workforce Brennan) who crossed the road first, was relegated to fourth. Particular person rider William Heffernan, who normally races with CCACHE x Bodywrap, confirmed loads of energy in Tasmania however turned that right into a win on the Harbour Metropolis GP. The 20-year-old Oliver Sims (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors) delivered for his staff, clinching the final stage of racing in each the primary spherical of the collection and the final. That additionally helped him to 3rd within the general collection classification and second within the U23 males’s class.
