ProVelo Super League – Lauren Bates and Jack Ward climb to victory on final stage of Tour of Tasmania
Ward also claims overall men's t𝓡our win while Sophie Marr's runner-up spot on stage 4 gives her the edge༒ in women's GC




Lauren Bates and Jack Ward (Team Brennan p/b TP32) climbed to victory on stage 4 of the Tour of Tasmania on Sunday, with Ward🐎 pulling out a big enough gap with his solo win to also claim the men’s tour general classiꦓfication.
Ward crossed the line 17 seconds ahead of Zac Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak) which, with win bonuses, gave him a one-second advantage ahead of Marriage on the men's overall. Ollie Sims (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors) was third on the stage and fourth overal🦄l.
Sophie Marr (Praties) claimed the women’s GC victory when she crossed the line to take second place behind Bates in the 50km hilltop finale of the third round of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:ProVelo Super League. Rhylee Akeroyd (Meꦯridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes) was third in the sprint from the group of ten that came to the line at the top of stage 4's Golden Valley Climb.
"I've been working so hard as a first-year Under 23 anﷺd as an individuꩲal. I'm so proud of myself, even getting here and doing it on my own," said the 18-year-old Bates after taking on the strength of the ProVelo teams as an individual rider to win stage 4.
The Tour of Tasmania started with a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:criterium on Friday – won by Keely Bennett (Meridian Blue Cycling p/b 99 Bikes) and Kurt Eather (CCACHE x Bodywrap) – then on Saturday morning riders set out on a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:road race from Sheffield with Hamish McKenzie (Tasmanian Institute of Sport) and Sophie Marr (Praties Cycling) crossing the line first. The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:time trial that afternoon was then won by Ol𝔉iver Bleddyn (Team Brennan p/b TP32) an🍨d Alli Anderson (Butterfields ZipTrak).
Stage 4, which took riders around Deloraine and through the Meanders Hills before reaching the pivotal final climb, was always going to be crucial to the overall battle given the🌳 top five men were all within 35 seconds heading into the final d𒈔ay of racing and the top five women were all within 24 seconds.
Ward, in fact,✃ moved up from fifth overall at the start of the day when he clinched the stage and overall win by launching on that final clim🅠b with 7km to go.
“So stoked, the team set it up perfectly and just went all out and it worked 🍬out well,” said Ward in an interview put out on the .
Ward is also at the top of the ProVelo Super League overall and under-23 classification after the completion of the third round of the new top-tie😼r domestic series while Marr also moved to the top on the under-23 and overall ahead of Praties teammate Talia Appleton at the halfway point of the six-event series.
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