The very first stage of the brand new ProVelo Super League couldn’t have picked a venue nearer to the center of cyclists to kick off the racing, with Talia Appleton (Praties Cycling Team) and Ronan Teese (Bendigo & District Cycling Club) claiming the victories within the Willunga Hill time trial which kicked off proceedings.
The new top-tier home racing league, which is changing the National Road Series, is ready to play out over six occasions from January to March, with the brand new three-day South Australian race, SA Kick It, delivering the opening battle within the collection which can supply up a spot within the Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental workforce to the U23 girls’s winner and a stagairie contract at Jayco-AlUla for the highest U23 rider within the males’s class.
The first day of racing performed out on the 3km climb with a mean gradient of seven.5 %, on roadsides lined with limitations and the end line marker of the Santos Tour Down Under given stage 2 of the ladies’s race was set to crest the ascent twice later within the day.
The 19-year-old Appleton claimed the ladies’s victory with a time of 8:35, not a shock winner rafter having ecently reminded rivals of her prowess on the climbs along with her win on stage 1 of the Tour of Bright which completed on high of Tawonga Gap.
two seconds forward of Katelyn Nicholson (Butterfields Ziptrak), whereas Sophia Sammons (Praties Cycling) was 4 seconds again.
“It was good to have the ability to win on the primary race of the brand new collection, its good motivation for the remainder of the rounds,” stated Appleton in an interview on ProVelo Super League Instagram.
Appleton was two seconds forward of Katelyn Nicholson (Butterfields Ziptrak), whereas Sophia Sammons (Praties Cycling) was 4 seconds again in third. Sammons, one other 19-year-old on the ladies’s podium, and Nicholson each continued their sturdy begin to the season after having completed within the high 5 within the girls’s elite and U23 street race on the Australian Road National Championships in Perth.
The 21-year-old Teese who was off the beginning line early took out the lads’s time trial with 6:51, The rider from the Bendigo and District Cycling Club was only one second forward of Jack Ward (Team Brennan p/b TP32), who continued on from his breakthrough climbing stage victories on the Tour of Bright, whereas Finlay Walsh (CCACHE x Bodywrap) was 4 seconds again within the stage the place your entire high ten was crammed by U23 riders.
The racing continues with a criterium at Victoria Park in Adelaide on Sunday which can be broadcast stay on SBS On Demand from 16:30 to 19:30 AEDT and a street race on the Bend Motorsport Park on Monday.
Women’s Stage 1 TT outcomes
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Men’s Stage 1 TT outcomes
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