Oceania champion Katelyn Nicholson (Butterfields ZipTrak) claimed a solo victory in a windy version of the Lochard Energy Warrnambool Women’s Classic on Sunday after using off the entrance alone for the ultimate forty kilometres of the race.
It was a quick tail and cross wind pushed version of the 160 kilometre race from Colac to Warrnambool that Nicholson took simply 3 hours, 51 minutes and 37 seconds to finish, delivering a median pace of 40.33km and slicing greater than ten minutes off final 12 months’s successful time.
There was not one other rider in sight when Nicholson crossed the road however she by no means actually let herself imagine it’d all be sewn up till she hit the ending straight.
The first group within the race, that was this 12 months additionally delivering the second spherical of competitors within the new ProVelo Super League, got here throughout the Raglan Parade end line simply over three minutes again from Nicholson. Keely Bennett (Duda) led the cost to take fourth with total and underneath 23 collection chief Talia Appleton come throughout the road in fifth and, consequently, maintained the highest spot total with a tally of 217 factors, simply 1 level forward of Nicholson.