The 2024 Tour Down Beneath will kick off the WorldTour season with the ladies’s occasion held from January 12-14, instantly adopted by the lads’s occasion from January 16-21. It’s going to happen in and round Adelaide, with many {of professional} biking’s greatest riders beginning the brand new season within the heat of the Australian summer season.
This yr’s Tour Down Beneath is the twenty fourth version of the lads’s race, whereas the newer girls’s occasion labored its approach as much as WorldTour degree final yr and can now be opening the season of prime tier racing for a second yr.
The Tour Down Beneath and Girls’s Tour Down Beneath will characteristic the climb that’s synonymous with the race – Willunga Hill – because it gives the finale for the ladies’s race and the penultimate stage for the lads’s race, which once more finishes on Mount Lofty.
Organisers of the 2024 Tour Down Beneath have introduced the primary headline rider – Caleb Ewan – who can be racing his first WorldTour race with Jayco-AlUla after returning to the Australian workforce after a five-year absence.
The block of racing additionally options the lads’s Down Beneath Basic on January 13 – a pre-event criterium which Ewan received whereas racing with the nationwide workforce in 2023 – and the ladies’s Down Beneath Criterium on January 18.
New this yr, gravel specialists will compete within the inaugural RADL GRVL, which is able to run from January 18-20 through the 2024 Santos Tour Down Beneath and can happen on a mixture of sealed and gravel roads round Adelaide.
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Cyclingnews protection of the 2024 Tour Down Beneath
Cyclingnews’ Australian Editor Simone Giuliani can be in Adelaide to cowl each the lads’s and girls’s 2024 Tour Down Beneath.
We’ll carry you reside protection of every stage with detailed updates, full race stories, photograph galleries, unique interviews, race evaluation and all the brand new 2024 bike tech as groups exhibit their new gear and racing colors.
2024 Tour Down Beneath schedule
| Date | Occasion | Location | Time (ACDT) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday January 12, 2024 | Girls’s Tour Down Beneath stage 1 | Hahndorf to Campbelltown | 11:10 to 13:52 |
| Saturday January 13, 2024 | Girls’s Tour Down Beneath stage 2 | Glenelg to Stirling | 11:10 to 14:23 |
| Row 2 – Cell 0 | Males’s Down Beneath Basic | Metropolis circuit | 19:10 to twenty:15 |
| Sunday January 14, 2024 | Girls’s Tour Down Beneath stage 3 | Adelaide CBD to Willunga | 11:10 to 14:02 |
| Tuesday January 16, 2024 | Males’s Tour Down Beneath stage 1 | Tanunda to Tanunda | 11:10 to 14:53 |
| Wednesday January 17, 2024 | Males’s Tour Down Beneath stage 2 | Norwood to Lobethal | 11:10 to 14:52 |
| Thursday January 18, 2024 | Males’s Tour Down Beneath stage 3 | Tea Tree Gully to Campbelltown | 11:10 to 14:49 |
| Row 7 – Cell 0 | Girls’s Down Beneath Criterium | Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi, Adelaida | 19:00 to twenty:05 |
| Friday January 19, 2024 | Males’s Tour Down Beneath stage 4 | Murray Bridge to Port Elliot | 11:10 to 14:48 |
| Saturday January 20, 2024 | Males’s Tour Down Beneath stage 5 | Christies Seashore to Willunga Hill | 11:10 to 14:31 |
| Sunday January 21, 2024 | Males’s Tour Down Beneath stage 6 | Unley to Mount Lofty | 11:10 to 14:31 |
