Australian riders have certainly had their eras of success at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix, this however isn’t one of them. Just three riders from the nation were on the start line in 2025 and the best placed finisher from among those came over the line in 82nd but given that that rider was a debuting 20-year-old 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Chamberlain (Decathlonꦯ AG2R La Mondiale), the embers of hope for a resurgence in the years ahead ꦏare still burning.

The second-youngest rider on the start-line of the race, a runner-up in the ๊2023 junior edition of Paris-Roubaix, Chamberlain🌜 went into the 2025 event "eager to get on the bike and on the cobbles and see what hell feels like", adding in an interview that the race for him was about getting experience, helping the team and making it to the velodrome within the time limit. 

"That first sector, it's just bodies falling. Definitely it was what I was thinking it was going to be but even more," Chamberlain told Cyclingnews after he had crossed the line. 

The Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale rider may have already experienced the 110km Paris-Roubaix juniors twice, coming 24th on his debut in 2022 before the second in 2023, but stepping into the elite ranks, and a race of 259.2km with around twice as many cobbled sectors, was something els♉e altogether. 

"[Paris-Roubaix is] sort of two races in one. The first part is just getting into that f๊irst couple of sectors – it's like the first finish line. Everyone's going full gas and going as hard as they can into into that f🏅irst cobbled sector and from there it's just who can hang on and stay towards the front," said Chamberlain.

"It's just a completelyﷺ different game and if I could do the junior one again, I wouꦜld," he said with a grin.

Chamberlain – who just last week finished 57th as the youngest rider at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Flanders – managed to 'hang on' and get through on Sunday without any flat tyres or crashes while soaking up 💝as much information as possible from his experienced team. Stefan Bissegger was the top finisher from the squad in seventh, even after an ill-timed flat.

The 2023 junior time trial world champion also achieved his goal of making it to the velodrome within the time limit with ease, coming through the line 12:21 behind winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu van der Poel (Aꦰlpecin-Deceuninck). The last rider home within the cut was Oier Lazkano (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgr൲ohe), nearly ten minutes further back in 117th place.

It may not have been a debut that drew as much attention as that delivered by the youngest rider in the race, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Visma-Lease a Bike's Matthew Brennan who came 44th and spent time among the favourites, but it was all a part of Chamberlain's journey from a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:self descꩲribed little guy with a Spider Man bike to a rider that has aspira🥀tions to one day to repeat the feats ꦰof riders like 2007 winner Stuart O’Grady and 2016 victor Mathew Hayman. 

"There have been some Aussies in the past who have done well, so I hopไe to be one of those one day," concluded Chamberlain.