After the ultimate stage of the opening SA Kick It spherical of the brand new ProVelo Super League Talia Appleton (Praties) and Brendon Davids (Team Brennan p/b TP 32) have been on the highest step general. Davids moved up after claiming the ultimate males’s highway race stage whereas Appleton’s end safely throughout the bunch on Monday was sufficient to carry the benefit after the day 1 time trial win.
It was Odette Lynch (Butterfields ZipTrack) who claimed the opening girls’s stage in a bunch dash on the 93km highway race at The Bend Motorsport Park. Sophie Marr (Praties), who gained Sunday’s criterium, got here second whereas it was Hong Kong’s Sze Wing Lee who claimed the ultimate spot on the rostrum.
Appleton, additionally the U23 chief, held her five-second benefit over Katelyn Nicholson (Butterfields ZipTrak) within the general.
“I knew that we had it in us at the moment so to have the ability to pull it off was actually particular,” Lynch stated in ProVelo Super League’s post-stage interview on the transfer to shift up a step after taking the runner-up spot within the criterium. “I feel it actually reveals we’ve got bought a little bit of combat in us so, eager for the remainder of the season.”
A two-rider break bought away within the males’s 115km highway race finale for SA Kick It, with the crosswind-hit race fracturing and Davids and Tynan Shannon (Royal Bikes) taking off and in the end carving out a considerable hole to the chasers. Davids took the tight dash between the duo and the two-minute hole to the closest chasing bunch additionally noticed the break riders bounce into the highest two spots general.
Blake Agnoletto (Team Brennan p/b TP 32) rounded out the stage podium whereas his teammate Jack Ward completed fourth to safe his third place within the general and high spot on the all-important U23 rating.
The males’s and girls’s U23 winners on the finish of the six-event sequence will get a possibility to race as a stagiaire with Jayco AlUla and on the Liv AlUla Jayco Continental staff.
Women’s stage 3 outcomes
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Men’s stage 3 outcomes
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