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As has turn into the norm, the 2025 Tour Down Below will ignite the touchpaper for the brand new racing season. The ladies’s occasion will likely be held from January 17-19, adopted shortly after by the lads’s race from January 21-26. Hosted in and round Adelaide, the heat of the Australian summer season at all times attracts loads of massive names to the race as they flip their pedals in anger for the primary time in 2025.

This yr, the lads’s race celebrates a milestone twenty fifth version, whereas the ladies’s occasion will mark the beginning of the Ladies’s WorldTour calendar for a 3rd yr operating after it stepped as much as the game’s high tier in 2023. 

Willunga Hill, a climb virtually as well-known because the race itself, would be the ending level for the penultimate levels of each races this yr, with the ladies’s occasion tackling it twice in a single stage for the primary time – the identical variety of ascents as within the males’s route.

Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas was the primary main title to be introduced by organisers for the 2025 Tour Down Below, with the Ineos Grenadiers rider doubtlessly gearing up for his closing yr within the professional peloton.

The lads’s groups will heat up for the WorldTour stage race by competing within the Villawood Males’s Basic on January 18, because the organisers rejoice their 25-year historical past with a criterium round east Adelaide – held for the primary time since 2013 when André Greipel took the title. 

In the meantime, the ladies will get their first style of one-day racing in 2025 after they compete within the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Basic, hosted on the identical metropolis circuit loop that the lads will deal with for his or her sixth and closing Tour Down Below stage later that day.

The RADL GRVL, held for the primary time final yr, additionally returns on January 24 and can happen on a mixture of sealed and gravel roads round Adelaide.

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Cyclingnews protection of the 2025 Tour Down Below

Cyclingnews’ Australian Editor Simone Giuliani will likely be overlaying each the lads’s and ladies’s 2025 Tour Down Below on the bottom in Adelaide. 

We are going to carry you reside protection of every stage with detailed stay updates, in-depth race experiences, unique interviews, race evaluation and all the most recent tech on present as groups debut their new gear and jerseys for the primary time. 

2025 Tour Down Below schedule