The Santos Tour Down Under have revealed the total entity record for the 2025 Australian stage races, with defending champion Stevie Williams (Israel-Premier Tech) joined within the males’s race by Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), Alberto Bettiol (XDS Astana), Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla), 2023 winner Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates XRG), Jai Hindley (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Dylan van Baarle (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Damien Howson, who leads the Australian nationwide group.
The girls’s peloton contains Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), Chloe Dygert (Canyon-Sram), Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek), Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health), Alison Jackson (EF Education-Oatly) and Olympic silver medallist Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez). 2024 winner Sarah Gigante won’t race after not too long ago present process surgical procedure to deal with iliac artery endofibrosis.
“Having eight reigning nationwide champions throughout the boys’s and girls’s pelotons exhibits the depth of high quality we now have within the subject for our twenty fifth anniversary, and I believe we’ll see some unbelievable racing this summer time,” Tour Down Under Race Director Stuart O’Grady stated.
The girls’s Tour Down Under lasts for 3 days between January 17-19. The males’s race contains six phases between January 21-26.
Tour de France Queen of the Mountain Justine Ghekiere is a part of the AG Insurance-Soudal line-up for the ladies’s race, as is her teammate and Adelaide rider Alexandra Manly. Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-Sram) additionally returns to Australia, whereas Lizzie Deigan is a part of the Lidl-Trek group as she begins her remaining season of her distinguished profession.
The males’s begin record additionally contains Canadian nationwide champion Mike Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) 2024 runner-up Jhonatan Narváez, who will share management with Vine after his transfer to UAE Team Emirates XRG, younger French nationwide champion Paul Lapeira (Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale) and Michal Kwiatkowski and the USA Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers).
19-year-old Spanish tremendous expertise Pablo Torres will make his debut with UAE Team Emirates XRG in Australia, as will Albert Withen Philipsen and Tim Torn Teutenberg at Lidl-Trek.
Aaron Gate will goal the sprints and UCI rating for XDS Astana alongside Bettiol and Sergio Higuits, whereas Sam Welsford leads the dash squad for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.
Plapp leads the massive contingent of Australia riders that additionally contains Luke Durbridge, Michael Hepburn, Lucas Hamilton.
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