Blake Agnoletto collects victory of stage 2 of SA Kick It 2025, the primary spherical of the brand new league(Picture credit score: Con Chronis/ProVelo Tremendous League)
Sophie Marr (Praties) winner of stage 2 of SA Kick It 2025, the primary spherical of the brand new league(Picture credit score: Con Chronis/ProVelo Tremendous League)
ProVelo Tremendous League launched with a Willunga HIll time trial on Saturday however Sunday was the primary probability riders must work the bunch, with a one-hour criterium on Victoria Park delivering stage 2 of the opening spherical of racing at SA Kick It.
Blake Agnoletto (Staff Brennan p/b TP32) claimed the lads’s criterium, which was began with a shot of the beginning gun by Mark Cavendish, whereas Sophie Marr (Praties Biking) gained the ladies’s stage 2.
Marr had gone lengthy, getting the hole on the sector earlier than the ultimate nook after which she saved placing energy right down to take a transparent victory. Odette Lynch (Butterfields Ziptrack) was second whereas it was then Amelie Sanders (ARA Skip Capital) who was third.
“My teammates made it really easy, final two laps they have been on the entrance, actually exhibiting our dominance there,” mentioned Marr, who simply shifted to Praties this season, in an interview on the SBS Broadcast.
“It was a bit sooner than we anticipated … and I appeared again and there was a little bit of a spot and I kicked once more, fortunately these corners made it a bit simpler to maintain the hole,”
Riders within the males’s race, with spectator numbers swelled by these on the town for the Santos Tour Down Underneath, have been strung out earlier than the ultimate corners. Agnoletto rapidly discovered prime place whereas Josh Duffy (Tasmanian Institute of Sport) got here second and 2024 Nationwide Street Collection winner Graeme Frislie (CCACHE x Bodywrap) was third.
“It was simply unbelievable how we pulled this group collectively in three weeks and the way we’re driving like we’ve got been collectively for 5 years,” Agnoletto mentioned in an interview on ProVelo Tremendous League social media. “Everybody simply did their job completely,”
After the second stage, Appleton and Jack Ward (Staff Brennan p/b TP32) have been on high of the general ladder.
The racing within the ProVelo Tremendous League’s SA Kick It concludes on Monday on the Bend Motorsport Park, with a 93km race for the ladies and a 115km race for the lads.
