Cameron Scott (CCACHE x Bodywrap) and Odette Lynch (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing) scored the opening victories within the stage 1 criterium of the Q Tour, which kicked off the ultimate spherical of racing within the ProVelo Super League in Queensland on Friday night.
In the ladies’s 37-lap race on Southbank, Brisbane it was U19 rider Amelie Sanders (ARA-Skip Capital) who got here second within the bunch dash of 16 whereas it was third for Lauren Bates (Meridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes) on the 1km sizzling canine circuit.
Liam Walsh made is a one-two for the CCACHE x Bodywrap squad within the males’s 49 lap race, with Scott Bowden (Tasmanian Institute of Sport) taking third within the dash which performed out amongst a bunch of seven. That break was established by the point the race had reached the fifteenth lap.
The Q Tour continues on Saturday with a hilly 8.6km stage 2 time trial after which a highway race on the Lakeside Raceway. The finale takes place on Sunday, with a 111.7km of racing by way of the Moreton Bay Hinterlands for the boys and 90.3km for the ladies, with each races ending in a hilltop end.
The three days of racing isn’t just a battle for stage and the general tour victories however there’s additionally intense competitors for the general ProVelo Super League titles, with the highest U23 riders incomes a spot to race with Jayco-AlUla and Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental staff.
At the beginning of the tour it was a two-way competitors for the boys with Jack Ward (Team Brennan p/b TP32) main the general and U23 standings with 381 factors whereas Zachary Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak) was second with 338. The three U23 girls inside vary of the highest spot had been Praties teammates Sophie Marr on 496 factors and Talia Appleton with 423 after which Alli Anderson (Butterfields Ziptrak) with 342.
Marriage, Ward, Marr and Appleton all completed outdoors the criterium stage factors, with the highest 5 awarded 20 to 10 factors, however Anderson’s fifth place means she narrowed her appreciable hole by 10 factors.
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Stage 1 elite girls’s high 10
Position
Rider
Time
1
Odette Lynch (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)
49:30
2
Amelie Sanders (ARA | Skip Capital
Row 1 – Cell 2
3
Lauren Bates (Meridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes)
Row 2 – Cell 2
4
Keely Bennett (Meridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes)
Row 3 – Cell 2
5
Alli Anderson (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)
Row 4 – Cell 2
6
Sophie Marr (Praties Cycling Team)
Row 5 – Cell 2
7
Talia Appleton (Praties Cycling Team)
Row 6 – Cell 2
8
Sophie Edwards (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)
Row 7 – Cell 2
9
Savannah Coupland (Cycling Development Foundation)
