Girls’s Tour Down Below stage 1 – LIVE

Response from the peloton, led by Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking Workforce.  However the peloton has conceded the transfer, leaving Polites solo off the entrance with 81.8km to go.

One other assault by ARA, this time it is Alyssa Polites who makes a solo transfer.

Assault at 84km to go

ARA Australian Nationwide Workforce rider assaults on the entrance, inflicting splits within the fiel. UNO-X and Liv AlUla Jayco reacted instantly.

Human Powered Well being’s Barbara Malcotti at her staff automobile, getting her radio mounted. 

 Three-time total champion Amanda Spratt  of Lidl-Trek on the Girls’s Tour Down Below:

“I have been out in Australia because the starting of November, and I might wish to say my summer season coaching has gone very nicely. Yeah, I am actually proud of the place I am at. I believe I felt actually, actually sturdy at Nationals, which was an excellent signal. And I believe I am coming in right here with some actually fine condition. So I am particularly trying ahead to racing with Niamh Fisher-Black on the climbing levels, and going for the GC along with her.

“Our aim right here is to attempt to win the GC and win a stage. And I believe with Niamh and I, now we have two actually sturdy climbers. So yeah, we need to, we need to play off that first time racing collectively. However I am actually excited for it. I believe we complement one another very nicely.”

“It [stage 1] does seem like a dash stage, however there’s additionally some winds, so we want to pay attention to potential crosswinds, however I am excited now we have Clara Copponi right here. She got here in second final time we completed at Aldinga Seashore, so I believe she’s going to be our massive choice for at the moment.”

90km to go

 Peloton collectively, unfold throughout the street.

Lower than 30km to go to the primary intermediate dash, set to happen by means of the Snapper Level end at Aldinga Seashore. For this cross, the peloton will head south, the wrong way to their remaining push to the road later at the moment.

The Santos Girls’s Tour Down Below barely resembles the race it was when it formally first began in 2016 as a 2.2 UCI-ranked occasion, spawned from what was successfully a group of criteriums.

Learn extra in Evolution of the Girls’s Tour Down Below – ‘That is the toughest tour that we have seen’ from  Australia editor Simone Giuliani

Loads of massive names had been out to observe the beginning of racing at Tour Down Below as they set off- Mark Cavendish, Grace Brown – her first 12 months on the sidelines after pinning on a quantity on the occasion since 2017, and UCI President David Lappartient.

Two riders on the begin listing didn’t begin at the moment: Marit Raaijmakers  Human Powered Well being and Anouska Koster of UNO-X Mobility.

So 82 riders instrument the beginning.

Peloton collectively as riders hugging the left aspect of the street. Will the wind be an element at the moment?

Although the general Girls’s Tour Down Below route caters to the climbers with back-to-back climbs over the enduring Willunga Hill because the centre-piece of the three-day occasion, at the moment’s stage ought to favour the sprinters.

Immediately, opportunists will likely be looking for factors within the lone Queen of the Mountain, the ascent of Heatherdale Hill halfway by means of the stage.

Flag drop by race director Stuart O’Grady and racing is underway for stage 1 of the Girls’s Tour Down Below. Ocean vistas await because the peloton travels alongside Jetty Highway in Brighton, the route then will hint the coast en path to the Fleurieu Peninsula earlier than a quick end at Snapper Level in Aldinga.

Speak about doable crosswinds in pre-race interview. Extra on that later.

The riders now head out of the three.8km impartial zone.

Racing will begin in round 10 minutes for stage 1 of the Girls’s Tour Down Below from Brighton to Snapper Level for a complete of 101.9km.

Sunshine and blue skies for the beginning in Brighton, which has ocean views and pine timber lining the street.

Good day and welcome to our stay protection of the 2025 Girls’s Santos Tour Down Below. The hardest version of the South Australian three-day stage race opens a brand new season of the Girls’s WorldTour.