Australian champion Ruby Roseman-Gannon will lead her Liv-AlUla-Jayco staff on house soil on the first UCI race of the 2025 season on the Ladies’s Santos Tour Down Underneath. After a standout 2024 highlighted by her first WorldTour victory – a stage on the Tour of Britain – the 26-year-old rider will probably be seeking to nab a stage win at house.
As a neo-pro in 2022, Roseman-Gannon made an enormous impression by profitable a stage and the general victory on the Santos Pageant 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 inserting, and suffered from the warmth on the race recognized for its sweltering circumstances.
“A spotlight of the season is at all times the Australian summer season of racing and particularly Tour Down Underneath. Dwelling crowds and many household and pals make it notably particular for us,” Roseman-Gannon acknowledged in a staff launch.
“The phases this yr look just like final yr however with some added climbs, so I feel we are able to anticipate extra attritional racing and a few thrilling finales. I feel we can have a powerful staff 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 will probably 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 staff. Dutch all-rounder Silke Smulders rounds out the six-rider line-up.
“I feel we’re coming into the race with a aggressive staff, and we’ve bought somebody for every of the roles have been on the lookout for. We’re aiming for stage success and likewise total success, we’ve riders able to doing each over a difficult and dynamic course. The race is barely three days lengthy, however every stage is troublesome in its personal proper,” famous Gene Bates, head sport director and staff supervisor.
“We are going to take it stage by stage and actually take the strategy of three one-day races and try to get the very best outcome every day, and the general will deal with itself. We’ve bought excessive ambitions with an awesome staff 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 Underneath 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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