As has develop into the norm, the 2025 Tour Down Underneath will ignite the touchpaper for the brand new racing season. The ladies’s occasion will probably be held from January 17-19, adopted shortly after by the lads’s race from January 21-26. Hosted in and round Adelaide, the heat of the Australian summer time at all times attracts loads of massive names to the race as they flip their pedals in anger for the primary time in 2025.
This 12 months, the lads’s race celebrates a milestone twenty fifth version, whereas the ladies’s occasion will mark the beginning of the Ladies’s WorldTour calendar for a 3rd 12 months operating after it stepped as much as the game’s prime tier in 2023.
Willunga Hill, a climb virtually as well-known because the race itself, would be the ending level for the penultimate phases of each races this 12 months, with the ladies’s occasion tackling it twice in a single stage for the primary time – the identical variety of ascents as within the males’s route.
Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas was the first main title to be introduced by organisers for the 2025 Tour Down Underneath, with the Ineos Grenadiers rider doubtlessly gearing up for his last 12 months within the professional peloton.
The boys’s groups will heat up for the WorldTour stage race by competing within the Villawood Males’s Traditional on January 18, because the organisers rejoice their 25-year historical past with a criterium round east Adelaide – held for the primary time since 2013 when André Greipel took the title.
In the meantime, the ladies will get their first style of one-day racing in 2025 once they compete within the Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional, hosted on the identical metropolis circuit loop that the lads will deal with for his or her sixth and last Tour Down Underneath stage later that day.
The RADL GRVL, held for the primary time final 12 months, additionally returns on January 24 and can happen on a mixture of sealed and gravel roads round Adelaide.
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Cyclingnews protection of the 2025 Tour Down Underneath
Cyclingnews’ Australian Editor Simone Giuliani will probably be protecting each the lads’s and ladies’s 2025 Tour Down Underneath on the bottom in Adelaide.
We’ll convey you reside protection of every stage with detailed stay updates, in-depth race stories, unique interviews, race evaluation and all the most recent tech on present as groups debut their new gear and jerseys for the primary time.
2025 Tour Down Underneath schedule
| Date | Occasion | Location | Time (ACDT) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday January 17, 2025 | Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath stage 1 | Brighton to Aldinga | 11:10 to 14:08 |
| Saturday January 18, 2025 | Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath stage 2 | Unley to Willunga Hill | 11:10 to 14:23 |
| Row 2 – Cell 0 | Villawood Males’s Traditional | Metropolis circuit | 19:00 to twenty:06 |
| Sunday January 19, 2025 | Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath stage 3 | Stirling to Stirling | 11:10 to 14:07 |
| Tuesday January 21, 2025 | Males’s Tour Down Underneath stage 1 | Prospect to Gumeracha | 11:10 to fifteen:26 |
| Wednesday January 22, 2025 | Males’s Tour Down Underneath stage 2 | Tanunda to Tanunda | 11:10 to 14:23 |
| Thursday January 23, 2025 | Males’s Tour Down Underneath stage 3 | Norwood to Uraidla | 11:10 to fifteen:30 |
| Friday January 24, 2025 | Males’s Tour Down Underneath stage 4 | Glenelg to Victor Harbor | 11:10 to fifteen:21 |
| Saturday January 25, 2025 | Males’s Tour Down Underneath stage 5 | McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill | 11:10 to 14:53 |
| Sunday January 26, 2025 | Schwalbe Ladies’s One-Day Traditional | Adelaide metropolis circuit | 10:15 to 12:30 |
| Row 10 – Cell 0 | Males’s Tour Down Underneath stage 6 | Adelaide metropolis circuit | 13:30 to fifteen:30 |
