The first titles within the newly situated AusCycling Road National Championships have been awarded at the moment, with Zac Marriage claiming the U23 males’s time trial title in Perth with a storming run over the 28.8km course.
After making it to the third step of the rostrum within the U23 class in each 2022 and 2023, the 21-year-old Butterfields Ziptrack Racing rider this 12 months discovered his technique to the highest step with a time of 35:53 for the occasion which performed out on a course round Bold Park. The race in opposition to the clock was comprised of three laps of a 9.8km loop with 109m of elevation acquire per lap.
“I’ve been making an attempt to win this since I used to be first-year under-23. Now it is my final 12 months, so it feels actually good to lastly get the highest step,” mentioned Marriage in an AusCycling assertion. “I do know the final nook was a bit ‘techy’ as properly, so it was sort of like full focus till the top, however the closing 10 metres felt fairly candy.
It was a clear-cut win, with 2024 U23 street race champion Fergus Browning (CCACHE x BODYWRAP) second, coming over the road 41 seconds again whereas his third-placed teammate John Carter was 1:29 behind Marriage’s time.
The junior classes additionally took to the course earlier within the day, with Max Goold claiming the U19 males’s time trial by 5 seconds regardless of a crash on the final nook. Goold had delivered a transparent indication he was working in direction of flying kind, with an attacking journey and fourth-place end within the Mt Buffalo stage on the Tour of Bright in December. His successful time was 25:11, with Lucas Stevenson second within the 19.2km take a look at, whereas Fletcher Medway was third.
“Final nook, I used to be full sprinting, and I did not realise it in the reduction of on itself. I locked it up, went sideways and hit the bottom,” mentioned Goold. “Luckily, my chain did not drop, for one. I might get again on, I used to be pedalling with one foot over the road.”
Having already gathered a nationwide title on the observe in December, 17-year-old Amelie Sanders stepped onto the highest step once more in Perth as she received the U19 time trial in 29:36, with the ARA-Skip Capital rider greater than ten seconds forward of her nearest rival Georgia Gardner and twenty seconds forward of third-placed Leani van der Berg.
The 38.4km males’s time trial plus the 28.8km lengthy U23/elite ladies’s occasions will happen on the identical loop on Thursday afternoon.
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