UCI Gravel World Collection – Successful return for Brendan Johnston at Gravelista whereas Talia Appleton breaks by
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Brendan Johnston has shortly made his mark in Australia on return from the US, the place he got here fourth total within the Life Time Grand Prix, successful the elite males’s class on the Gravelista spherical of the UCI Gravel World Collection held in Seymour on Sunday.
The Large rider additionally swept up the opposite Australian spherical of the collection, SEVEN in Western Australia, earlier in 2024.
It was, alternatively a breakthrough gravel win for Talia Appleton with the 19 12 months previous Workforce Bridgelane rider having delivered a wholesome dose of high 10 outcomes on the highway in her first 12 months out of the junior ranks at nationwide degree races however after her gravel high step it seems like there shall be extra races on the agenda in that self-discipline as effectively.
Appleton bought away in a helpful transfer within the race which ended up being blended in with the masters males on the highway, leaving her rivals behind whereas Australian gravel champion and likewise 2023 winner Courtney Sherwell ended a protracted season when she came to visit the road greater than ten minutes later to take second. Cassia Boglio was third.
Johnston took his second UCI Gravel World Collection victory after going clear early with RADL GRVL winner Tasman Nankervis (Merida/BMC Shimano) and Luke Burns (Bridgelane) who gained the mountains classification on the Tour Down Below in the beginning of this 12 months. Johnston bought the hole on Nankervis, who got here second with Burns taking third.
The 135km Gravelista within the regional Victorian location of Seymour is the second qualifying spherical for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships in France, with the European Gravel Championships in the beginning of October being the primary.
There may be additionally one other spherical of the collection in Australia on Could 17, SEVEN in Nannup. The Western Australian race can even host the UCI Gravel World Championships in 2026.
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