Australia has introduced its workforce for the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich in September, with Grace Brown set to attempt one final time so as to add a rainbow jersey to her Olympic Games gold medal.
Michael Matthews can even be rapidly again within the inexperienced and gold jersey, together with fellow Paris Olympic Games rivals Ben O’Connor, Australian champion Ruby Roseman-Gannon and maybe, for the time trial, Luke Plapp. That, nonetheless, is contingent on him being adequately recovered from his crash within the Olympic Games time trial which resulted in him having stomach surgical procedure.
In the ladies’s time trial, the soon-to-retire Brown shall be joined by Brodie Chapman and Oceania champion Isabelle Carnes. Chapman can even trip the street race alongside Brown and Roseman-Gannon whereas the squad of six can even embrace Giro d’Italia Blockhaus stage winner Neve Bradbury, Sarah Gigante and skilled campaigner Amanda Spratt – who already has a silver and bronze from the World Championships street race.
“Australian street biking has had rather a lot to rejoice this 12 months,” mentioned Jesse Korf, convenor of the National Selection Panel in an AusCycling assertion saying the workforce. “We stay up for seeing Grace Brown contest her first, and sure final, world championships since profitable the Olympic gold medal.”
“At the opposite finish of the size, it’s unbelievable to have younger debutants on board corresponding to Isabelle Carnes and Neve Bradbury, whom we hope will make a big effect at their first elite world championships.”
Bradbury and Carnes are each Under 23 riders, in order that they can even be eligible for the world title in that class.
The eight sturdy males’s street squad can even – alongside Paris Olympians O’Connor and Matthews – embrace Giro d’Italia winner Jai Hindley, Jack Haig, Chris Harper, Nick Schultz, Callum Scotson and Michael Storer.
“Our workforce is crammed with climbing expertise together with a number of grand tour podiums, plus the expertise of a rider like Michael Matthews, who has confirmed time and time once more his potential to ship outcomes at this stage,” mentioned Korf of the rider who has raced for Australia in 11 World Championships street races and stood on the rostrum three of these instances.
The 2024 Road World Championships in Zurich, from September 21-29, ship programs with a substantial quantity of climbing with the 154.1km girls’s street race from Uster to Zurich on Saturday September 28 together with 2,384m of elevation acquire whereas the 273.9km males’s street race on Sunday September 29 packs in 4,470m of climbing.
