Women’s Surf Coast Classic confirmed as Cadel Evans Great Ocean road race lead-in for 2025
The 118km women’𓃲s race added for January 29, men to line up for 157km event from Lorne to Torquay the next day

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race has confirmed the creation of the Women's Surf Coast Classic race as a lead in to th♔e Women's WorldTour ev𝓀ent.
The Surf Coast Classic and Cadel Evans Great♍ Ocean Road Race are the final races in Australia's🔜 summer of cycling which opens up the international racing for a new season in early 2025.
The Australian riders also first get a hit out at the National Championships from🧸 January 8 to 12 before the Women's WorldTour and WorldTour opens up in South Australia from January 17 to 26. Teams then skip east for the racing in Victoria before leaving behind the heat of the Australian summer as they head to E♓urope.
The 1.1 ranked race was re-introduced for the men's elite field in 2024. There had been𝔍 a UCI ranked event for both men and women before the COVID-19 hiatus in🌟 2021 and 2022.
In 2024 as the men's field tackled the 🐻returne🔯d UCI-ranked point-to-point race from Lorne to Torquay the women raced a criterium in central Geelong. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果💖:Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ) won the prize purse of €14,520, loaded thanks to the event’s long-standing🌞 practice of delivering equal prizes to the women's and men's field even if the race levels differ.
This year the race levels will be equal too, both taking on the 1.1 ranked road race as a precursor to the one-day Women's WorldTour and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:men's WorldTour events on the weekend of February 1 and 2.
The 118km women's Surf Coast Classic will take place on Wednesday January 29, while the 157km men's lead🧜-in race will roll out on Thursday January 30.
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“It’s fantastic for the region and for our elite riders,” ra෴ce director Scott Sunderland said officially announcing the races, which were earlier listed in the UCI calendar.
“The Surf Coast Classic was well-received by the international Elite Men’s teams in 2024, and we’re delighted to now offer the same experience for the international Elite Wom♈en’s teams."
The course starts on the coast, heading straight into a 10km climb that takes it inland to Deans Marsh. Shortly after that the men's and women's course diverges with the men looping out further with a route that inc🦄ludes Barwon Downs and Forrest before once again re-joining the shared course that takes the race over the rolling hills of the Victorian countryside. After that the point to point race heads to the coast once again, with the final sprint unfolding along The Esplanade in Torquay.
The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race h🦄as been run since 2015, with 2025 the tenth ☂edition.
When it returned to the calendar in 2023 th▨e traditional course direction was reversed but it will be back running clockwise again – first heading along the coast, and the revered surfing hot spot of Bells Beach, before looping back inland to take on local circuits that include the race splintering climb of Challambra.
The men's race moved up to WorldTour level in 2017 and the women's race in 2020, both running on the ꦓsame course but with variations in the number ꦅof times over the final loop.
In 2025 the men will take on the final loop – which now also takes in the Botanic Gardens – four times for ✨a total distance of 184km with near 2,000m of elevation gain. The women will tackle it twice for a race over 142km with a little over 1,400m of elevation gain.

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