In 2025, the ladies’s peloton could have an extra one-day race, the Schwalbe Girls’s One-Day Traditional in Australia, giving riders a priceless further probability to safe essential UCI factors as they start the season.
Organised by the Santos Tour Down Beneath, the Schwalbe Girls’s One-Day Traditional shall be held on Sunday, January 26, on the identical metropolis route in Adelaide because the sixth and last stage of the boys’s stage race, permitting followers to see the world’s greatest ladies’s and males’s riders in a single location as Australia’s best biking race celebrates its milestone twenty fifth yr.
Tour Down Beneath Race Director Stuart O’Grady stated the ladies’s peloton had been asking for extra alternatives to earn priceless UCI factors.
“In contrast to the boys, ladies’s UCI WorldTeams are usually not obligated to attend the Santos Tour Down Beneath, so with the ability to supply them 4 alternatives to safe UCI factors firstly of the season is a significant incentive and can bolster competitors within the ladies’s discipline,” O’Grady stated.
Three-time Tour Down Beneath winner Amanda Spratt, who has been racing the occasion since its inception, sees the addition of a brand new one-day race as a constructive step ahead.
“I feel including this further UCI race to the schedule subsequent yr is an efficient preliminary step ahead. It provides us one other alternative to safe priceless factors early within the season and my hope is that it may be a catalyst for including extra phases to the ladies’s Santos Tour Down Beneath sooner or later as nicely,” she stated.
Categorised as a Professional Sequence occasion, the 90-kilometre raced over 20 laps in Adelaide, the Schwalbe Girls’s One-Day Traditional, will happen after the three-day Girls’s Tour Down Beneath, January 17-19.
Providing 200 UCI Factors and equal prize cash to the Villawood Males’s Down Beneath Traditional, the race will function the identical peloton because the Girls’s Tour Down Beneath, together with invited home groups, creating an opportunity for rising riders to check themselves in opposition to the world’s greatest.
2024 Girls’s Tour Down Beneath general winner Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) is worked up in regards to the problem offered by a brand new race.
“I first raced the Tour Down Beneath in 2020 and it’s been unbelievable to see simply how a lot the occasion has progressed since then. Now we deal with Willunga Hill and race in entrance of big crowds in a world tour peloton. The entire peloton has been asking for extra alternatives on the Girls’s Tour Down Beneath, and this extra one-day race is one other nice step ahead. Deliver it on.”
