Australian champion Ruby Roseman-Gannon will lead her Liv-AlUla-Jayco workforce on dwelling soil on the first UCI race of the 2025 season on the Ladies’s Santos Tour Down Beneath. After a standout 2024 highlighted by her first WorldTour victory – a stage on the Tour of Britain – the 26-year-old rider might be seeking to nab a stage win at dwelling.
As a neo-pro in 2022, Roseman-Gannon made a giant impression by profitable a stage and the general victory on the Santos Competition of Biking. In 2023, when the race was elevated to the Ladies’s WorldTour, she nabbed a fifth-place stage end and fourth total. In January 2024, Roseman-Gannon claimed one top-10 stage putting, and suffered from the warmth on the race identified for its sweltering circumstances.
“A spotlight of the season is all the time the Australian summer season of racing and particularly Tour Down Beneath. House crowds and many household and buddies make it notably particular for us,” Roseman-Gannon said in a workforce launch.
“The phases this yr look much like final yr however with some added climbs, so I believe we are able to anticipate extra attritional racing and a few thrilling finales. I believe we could have a powerful workforce for the race and I’m excited to see what we are able to do.”
Becoming a member of Roseman-Gannon on the beginning line might be New Zealand champion Ella Wyllie, who completed seventh total final yr, together with Australians Georgia Baker, Amber Pate, and Josie Talbot, making her debut with the workforce. Dutch all-rounder Silke Smulders rounds out the six-rider line-up.
“I believe we’re coming into the race with a aggressive workforce, and we’ve received somebody for every of the roles have been in search of. We’re aiming for stage success and in addition total success, we have now riders able to doing each over a difficult and dynamic course. The race is just three days lengthy, however every stage is troublesome in its personal proper,” famous Gene Bates, head sport director and workforce supervisor.
“We’ll take it stage by stage and actually take the method of three one-day races and try to get the very best outcome every day, and the general will maintain itself. We’ve received excessive ambitions with an ideal workforce coming collectively for this one, and we’re excited and motivated to hit the streets of Adelaide!”
Held from January 17-19 in and round Adelaide, the Ladies’s Tour Down Beneath is the opening occasion of the Ladies’s WorldTour.
The stage race begins with a 101.9km course from Brighton to Snapper Level on stage 1.
The second day of the race would be the most decisive of the three days because the peloton tackles 115km from Unley to the highest of Willunga Hill. The enduring climb, which has historically been used within the males’s race, was added to the ladies’s parcours in 2024.
The three-day stage race will conclude with a 105.9km stage in Stirling.
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