Nineteen-year-old Lucinda Stewart (ARA Skip Capital) has soloed away from her breakaway companions to win the Lochard Energy Warrnambool Women’s Classic today. Stewart was part of a quartet that broke away 40 kilometres into the 160-kilometre race from Colac to Warrnambool. She was joined by Amanda Poulsen (Team BridgeLane), Josephine Pepper (Butterfields Racing Team) and […]
Veteran Melbourne cyclist Mark O’Brien has won the 108th Powercor Melbourne to Warrnambool Cycling Classic, soloing to victory today after an attack-filled finale to the 267-kilometre race. Competing as an individual, O’Brien outwitted and outrode the heavyweight teams of the AusCycling National Road Series in the crosswinds. Having placed second way back in 2010 and […]
The international peloton may have left our shores, but the Aussie summer of cycling rolls on with the start of the domestic season – and it begins with a doozy. This weekend, the 108th Melbourne to Warrnambool will kickstart the AusCycling National Road Series, with all the prestige that comes with our oldest and longest one-day […]
The AusCycling 2023 National Road Series finale rolls away tomorrow at the Tour of Tasmania. Over five days of racing, the Spirit of Tasmania Cycling Tour (men) and Roll Cycles Tour of Tasmania (women) puts the best of the Apple Isle on full display, starting from the NRS men’s prologue up Bourke St in Launceston on […]
The AusCycling National Road Series returns this week for the penultimate race of 2023. From Thursday to Sunday, Cycle Sunshine Coast features five stages in Queensland’s namesake region, an hour north of Brisbane. Who will succeed Zac Marriage and Danielle De Francesco as the GC winners? Route The five-stage race offers two major changes from […]
Team BridgeLane’s Tristan Saunders has extended his AusCycling National Road Series (NRS) lead following a spirited double-stage win finish to the Tour of Gippsland. Saunders lept into general classification contention with a determined bridge to the breakaway on Stage 3, which laid the foundation for his Pakenham Mazda Yellow Jersey victory. The 23-year-old’s sprint proved […]
Team BridgeLane’s dominance of the AusCycling National Road Series has continued with Emily Watts winning her first NRS stage race at the Tour of Gippsland. The general classification was a fierce battle between Watts and Georgia Whitehouse (ARA Skip Capital), with Watts carrying just an 11-second lead over Whitehouse heading into the fourth and final […]
An inaugural Mt Mitchell finish of the women’s Squadron Energy Grafton to Inverell Cycle Classic has been dominated by Team BridgeLane, led by eventual victor Mia Hayden and Talia Appleton. Hayden and Appleton were at home on the ascent of Gibraltar Range, breaking clear in the winning move together. Team BridgeLane was in complete control […]
Team BridgeLane’s Zac Marriage has added his name to the winner’s list of Australia’s toughest one-day race at the 62nd Squadron Energy Grafton to Inverell Cycle Classic. The talented 19-year-old entered Inverell on the wheel of Tandem Co Pro Cycling’s Max Campbell and sprinted around the Brisbane climber after a sustained surge of power to […]
The AusCycling National Road Series (NRS) continues this Saturday with the toughest one-day race on the calendar, the Squadron Energy Grafton to Inverell Cycle Classic. It’ll be a hard day for both the men and women: for the first time, the NRS women’s race will tackle the signature Gibraltar Range climb. Here’s what to know […]