Australian champion Ruby Roseman-Gannon will lead her Liv-AlUla-Jayco group on house soil on the first UCI race of the 2025 season on the Girls’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 can be seeking to nab a stage win at house.
As a neo-pro in 2022, Roseman-Gannon made a giant impression by successful a stage and the general victory on the Santos Competition of Biking. In 2023, when the race was elevated to the Girls’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 Beneath. Residence crowds and many household and buddies make it significantly particular for us,” Roseman-Gannon said in a group launch.
“The levels this yr look much like final yr however with some added climbs, so I feel we will anticipate extra attritional racing and a few thrilling finales. I feel we may have a robust group for the race and I’m excited to see what we will do.”
Becoming a member of Roseman-Gannon on the beginning line can 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 group. Dutch all-rounder Silke Smulders rounds out the six-rider line-up.
“I feel we’re coming into the race with a aggressive group, and we’ve received somebody for every of the roles have been searching for. We’re aiming for stage success and likewise total success, we’ve got riders able to doing each over a difficult and dynamic course. The race is barely three days lengthy, however every stage is tough in its personal proper,” famous Gene Bates, head sport director and group supervisor.
“We’ll take it stage by stage and actually take the method of three one-day races and attempt to get the very best outcome every day, and the general will deal with itself. We’ve received excessive ambitions with a terrific group 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 Girls’s Tour Down Beneath is the opening occasion of the Girls’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.
Get limitless entry to all of our protection of the Tour Down Beneath and Girls’s Tour Down Beneath, together with reporting from Australia, breaking information and evaluation. Discover out extra.
