Australia might be moving into the UCI Gravel World Championships in Belgium with a girls’s squad that boasts a powerful mixture of confirmed gravel expertise and street crossover riders, together with debuting Australian champion Courtney Sherwell, Giro d’Italia stage winner Neve Bradbury and confirmed participant Tiffany Cromwell.
The boys’s staff will embody the expertise of Nathan Haas, final yr’s Australian gravel champion Connor Sens, Freddy Ovett and Oliver Stenning amongst a squad of 9 that can tackle the 181km males’s race from Halle to Leuven on Sunday October 6. Finishing the squad is Laurens Black, Tom Chester, Kobe Henderson, Matthew Shepherd and Ben Spenceley. Brendan Johnston, who was robotically chosen as nationwide champion, opted to not compete.
Alternatives for the elite males’s staff had been dominated by those that gathered qualification by the UCI Gravel World Sequence however for the ladies’s elite staff it was a mix of sequence qualification and wild card entries from the nationwide federation, AusCycling. It’s a mixture that ought to ship a strong squad for the 134km occasion on Saturday October 5.
Sherwell is essentially the most off-road focussed of the squad with the rider who final weekend represented her nation on the Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships additionally having swept up plenty of key gravel victories at dwelling in addition to clutching two runner-up spots within the Belgian Waffle Journey sequence within the US initially of this yr.
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