In 2025, the ladies’s peloton may have a further one-day race, the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional in Australia, giving riders a precious further probability to safe essential UCI factors as they start the season.
Organised by the Santos Tour Down Below, the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional will probably be held on Sunday, January 26, on the identical metropolis route in Adelaide because the sixth and ultimate 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 Below Race Director Stuart O’Grady stated the ladies’s peloton had been asking for extra alternatives to earn precious UCI factors.
“Not like the boys, ladies’s UCI WorldTeams are usually not obligated to attend the Santos Tour Down Below, so having the ability to provide them 4 alternatives to safe UCI factors at first of the season is a serious incentive and can bolster competitors within the ladies’s subject,” O’Grady stated.
Three-time Tour Down Below 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 believe including this further UCI race to the schedule subsequent yr is an efficient preliminary step ahead. It offers us one other alternative to safe precious 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 Below sooner or later as properly,” she stated.
Categorised as a Professional Collection occasion, the 90-kilometre raced over 20 laps in Adelaide, the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional, will happen after the three-day Ladies’s Tour Down Below, January 17-19.
Providing 200 UCI Factors and equal prize cash to the Villawood Males’s Down Below Traditional, the race will function the identical peloton because the Ladies’s Tour Down Below, together with invited home groups, creating an opportunity for rising riders to check themselves towards the world’s greatest.
2024 Ladies’s Tour Down Below general winner Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) is happy concerning the problem offered by a brand new race.
“I first raced the Tour Down Below in 2020 and it has been unimaginable to see simply how a lot the occasion has progressed since then. Now we deal with Willunga Hill and race in entrance of giant crowds in a world tour peloton. The entire peloton has been asking for extra alternatives on the Ladies’s Tour Down Below, and this extra one-day race is one other nice step ahead. Convey it on.”
