ProVelo Super League – Sophie Marr closes in on Liv-AlUla Jayco Continental contract with stage 3 win at Q Tour

Sophie Marr (Praties Cycling Team) and Tynan Shannon (Team Royal Bikes) received Saturday afternoon’s stage 3 of the Q Tour, the penultimate stage within the ultimate spherical of Australia’s ProVelo Super League.

Marr’s victory has helped consolidate her place on the prime of the general and beneath 23 factors desk of the league leaderboard, giving her a fair greater benefit heading towards the essential ultimate stage of racing. The final U23 girls’s league winner will earn a contract with the Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental staff and the lads’s U23 winner will safe a stagiaire function with Jayco-AlUla.

Lauren Bates (Meridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes) got here second to Marr within the stage 3 Lakeside Roadway highway race which performed out on a 2.2km circuit, whereas Sophie Edwards (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing) was third within the bunch dash on the finish of the 30 lap and 66km race. 

Elliot Schultz (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors) was second to Shannon in a two-way dash on the finish of the 40 lap, 89.5km race for the lads, whereas Matthew Lambert (Tandem Co Pro Cycling) was third after main the subsequent group of eight by means of the road ten seconds again. The prime two riders on the general and U23 league leaderboard, Jack Ward (Team Brennan p/b TP32) and Zachary Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing) each completed out of the factors in a bunch 27 seconds again.

Shannon is now main the general of the Q Tour with a two second benefit to Liam Walsh (CCACHE x Bodywrap) after which there are three riders on eight seconds, Scott Bowden (Tasmanian Institute of Sport), Schultz and Marriage, who’s the primary U23 rider.

Heading into the essential deciding battle, for each the 4 stage tour in Queensland and total six occasion collection, Ward holds a 33 level benefit over Marriage on the league leaderboard. In the Q Tour Marriage is main the U23 class by 20 seconds on Will Heath (CCACHE x Bodywrap) and 22 seconds up on third positioned Ward.

The GC winner at every tour takes 100 factors towards their tally on the ProVelo Super League leaderboard, second place 80 factors and third place 68 with the variety of factors persevering with to drop by means of to 10 factors for fifteenth, and one level for spot 51 and beneath. That means the highest U23 males’s spot continues to be properly and actually in play throughout Sunday’s finale, with a stage win additionally clinching 20 factors and the mountains and factors classification additionally one other alternative to realize factors. 

The girls’s total and U23 collection chief is wanting in a much more comfy –though not unbeatable – place. Marr holds an 81 level benefit on Praties teammate Appleton whereas Butterfields Ziptrak’s Anderson has a 138 deficit to Marr.

Bates is main the ladies’s Q Tour normal classification and U23 standings with Marr in second, 11 seconds again, and Anderson third at 15 seconds. 

The ultimate stage of racing within the tour and collection can be a 111.7km race by means of the Moreton Bay Hinterlands for the lads and 90.3km stage for the ladies.

You can discover the Q Tour stage 1 outcomes right here the stage 2 outcomes right here and the occasion preview right here. Also see the highlights movies of stage 3 from ProVelo beneath.