In 2025, the ladies’s peloton can have a further one-day race, the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional in Australia, giving riders a invaluable additional likelihood to safe essential UCI factors as they start the season.
Organised by the Santos Tour Down Underneath, the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional shall be held on Sunday, January 26, on the identical metropolis route in Adelaide because the sixth and remaining stage of the boys’s stage race, permitting followers to see the world’s greatest girls’s and males’s riders in a single location as Australia’s biggest biking race celebrates its milestone twenty fifth 12 months.
Tour Down Underneath Race Director Stuart O’Grady stated the ladies’s peloton had been asking for extra alternatives to earn invaluable UCI factors.
“In contrast to the boys, girls’s UCI WorldTeams will not be obligated to attend the Santos Tour Down Underneath, so having the ability to supply them 4 alternatives to safe UCI factors firstly of the season is a significant incentive and can bolster competitors within the girls’s subject,” O’Grady stated.
Three-time Tour Down Underneath winner Amanda Spratt, who has been racing the occasion since its inception, sees the addition of a brand new one-day race as a optimistic step ahead.
“I feel including this additional UCI race to the schedule subsequent 12 months is an effective preliminary step ahead. It provides us one other alternative to safe invaluable factors early within the season and my hope is that it may be a catalyst for including extra phases to the ladies’s Santos Tour Down Underneath sooner or later as properly,” she stated.
Labeled as a Professional Sequence occasion, the 90-kilometre raced over 20 laps in Adelaide, the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional, will happen after the three-day Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath, January 17-19.
Providing 200 UCI Factors and equal prize cash to the Villawood Males’s Down Underneath Traditional, the race will characteristic the identical peloton because the Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath, together with invited home groups, creating an opportunity for rising riders to check themselves towards the world’s greatest.
2024 Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath total winner Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) is happy in regards to the problem offered by a brand new race.
“I first raced the Tour Down Underneath in 2020 and it has been unimaginable to see simply how a lot the occasion has progressed since then. Now we deal with Willunga Hill and race in entrance of giant crowds in a world tour peloton. The entire peloton has been asking for extra alternatives on the Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath, and this extra one-day race is one other nice step ahead. Deliver it on.”
