After six rounds of racing, which began in January, Jack Ward (Team Brennan p/b TP32) and Sophie Marr (Praties Cycling) had been topped as the primary winners of Australia’s new ProVelo Super League and likewise clinched the skilled racing contracts with Jayco-AlUla and Liv-AlUla-Jayco that went to the highest Under 23 riders.
The closing battles performed out on Sunday’s queen stage of the Q Tour, with a 111.7km-long race via the Moreton Bay Hinterlands for the lads and a 90.3km-long stage for the ladies, and a climb to the end line for each.
It was a decent battle for the general league win and the stage within the males’s competitors, with Ward in the end charging over the road forward of his key rival Zac Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak) to take the stage 4 decider and general league victory. Marriage’s second place, nonetheless, was sufficient to see him stroll away with the Q Tour win.
“The staff … with out them it would not have occurred,” stated Ward in an interview put out on ProVelo Super League social media. “They did a lot work at this time within the latter half and purchased the break again so I may go for the stage win – It was fairly particular.”
The closing win meant Ward completed the six spherical occasion with a 21 level lead within the competitors for the Jayco-AlUla stagairie function, which is able to begin on August 1.
Marr took out the general and U23 league win and season-long 2026 contract with the Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental staff after ending with a preventing sixth place on the ultimate stage of the Q Tour. The solely rider with a shot of difficult her high spot heading into the ultimate day of racing was her Praties teammate, Talia Appleton.
The 19-year-old Appleton received the Queen stage after breaking away from a lead group, that additionally included Marr, on the final climb with Alli Anderson (Butterfields Ziptrak) chasing. After her profitable effort Appleton additionally got here second within the basic classification of the Q Tour, claiming 80 factors for the runner up place and 20 for the stage 4 win. That left her simply 13 factors behind Marr’s 589 factors within the general league rankings.
Anderson completed third on the league leaderboard, 75 factors behind Marr, however second on the ultimate stage which was sufficient to safe general victory on the four-stage Q Tour, six seconds forward of Appleton, in addition to the 100 factors that went to the tour basic classification winner. Had Appleton taken the general victory forward of Anderson she would have earned sufficient factors to change which Praties teammate clinched the contract.
“I’m misplaced for phrases. Everyone was like ‘you’ve got received this, you’ve got received this – mainly the pen is in your arms’,” Marr – who went into the stage with a 73 level benefit on teammate Appleton, stated in an interview after the race which was broadcast live on SBS . “But I used to be like ‘do not speak too quickly’. Obviously the final stage was a giant struggle.”
Given Marr crossed the road in sixth she was simply out of the stage factors however nonetheless managed to ease her fall down the general rankings of the Q Tour, claiming an important 49 factors along with her fifth place on the overall classification of the four-stage occasion in Queensland.
In the Under 19 class Hannah Gianatti (ARA-Skip Capital) claimed the general league win with Tully Schweitzer (Praties Cycling) second and Amelie Sanders (ARA-Skip Capital) third. Ollie Jirovec spearheaded a sweep of the highest six males’s U19 general league desk by ARA-Skip Capital, with Connor Wright second and Benjamin Coates third.
Q Tour stage 4 outcomes
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Q Tour stage 4 elite males high 10
Position
Rider
Time
1
Jack Ward (Team Brennan p/b TP32)
2:42:21
2
Zachary Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak)
+1
3
Nicholas Thompson (Velofit-Define Property)
+16
4
Ronan Teese (Bendigo & District Cycling Club)
+41
5
Scott Bowden (Tasmanian Institute of Sport)
+48
6
Jake Cawthorn (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors)
+49
7
Matthew Lambert (Tandem Co Pro Cycling)
Row 6 – Cell 2
8
Matthew May (Cycling Development Foundation)
+56
9
Brent Rees (Tandem Co Pro Cycling)
+58
10
Lachlan Pennisi (ARA-Skip Capital)
Row 9 – Cell 2
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Q Tour stage 4 elite girls high 10
Position
Rider
Time
1
Talia Appleton (Praties Cycling Team)
2:38:19
2
Alli Anderson (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)
+8
3
Sophia Sammons (Praties Cycling Team)
+25
4
Frankie Hall (Praties Cycling Team)
+28
5
Lauren Bates (Meridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes)
+33
6
Sophie Marr (Praties Cycling Team)
+43
7
Neve Parslow (ARA | Skip Capital)
+1:29
8
Tully Schweitzer (Praties Cycling Team)
Row 7 – Cell 2
9
Alyssa Polites (Praties Cycling Team)
+1:35
10
Savannah Coupland (Cycling Development Foundation)
+1:38
Overall ProVelo Super League chief board
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Overall League Leaderboard high 5 – Men, *for U23 riders
Position
Rider
Points
1
Jack Ward* (Team Brennan p/b TP32)
Row 0 – Cell 2
2
Zachary Marriage* (Butterfields Ziptrak)
Row 1 – Cell 2
3
Tristan Saunders (Team Brennan p/b TP32)
Row 2 – Cell 2
4
Brendon Davids (Team Brennan p/b TP32)
Row 3 – Cell 2
5
Cameron Scott (CCACHE x Bodywrap)
Row 4 – Cell 2
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Overall League Leaderboard high 5 – Women, *for U23 riders
Position
Rider
Points
1
Sophie Marr* (Praties Cycling Team)
589
2
Talia Appleton* (Praties Cycling Team)
576
3
Alli Anderson* (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)
514
4
Lauren Bates* (Meridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes)
