After scooping up medals of their dwelling Worlds in Wollongong in 2022, Australia will as soon as once more look to Grace Brown and Michael Matthews to ship on the highway on the mixed self-discipline Glasgow World Championships this August.
The duo are the headliners for the ARA Australian group within the elite highway races and Brown will even line up on the time trial. She will probably be among the many favourites on the race in opposition to the clock on August 10, after taking silver in 2022 and the 31-year-old will probably be joined on the 36.2km circuit by a debuting Georgina Howe.
It is going to be a closing World Championships tilt for Rohan Dennis, with the the 2018 and 2019 title holder taking over the 47.8km time trial on Friday August 11. The retiring rider – who has final 12 months took Commonwealth Video games gold and the 12 months earlier than secured bronze on the Olympic Video games – will probably be joined by first timer jay Vine, who surprised together with his highly effective profitable efficiency on the Australian Street Nationwide Championships in January.
Matthews took bronze within the highway race in Wollongong, stepping onto the boys’s elite highway race podium for a 3rd time, and he will probably be chasing one other medal in Glasgow on August 6 with seven robust riders alongside him, because the nation certified for the utmost quota.
Sprinters Caleb Ewan and Kaden Groves are sure to have the bases lined within the situation of a bunch dash on the 271.1km course which has 3,570 metres of climbing, with the most important ascents early within the race and the end on laps of a punchy, technical metropolis circuit. Then there may be additionally Luke Durbridge, Robert Stannard, Harry Sweeny and the breakaway potential of Simon Clarke plus Australian champion Luke Plapp.
The ladies’s U23 and elite highway race, which in a swap of the same old order closes out the highway racing, takes place on August 14 on a 154.1km course with 2,230m of elevation acquire. The highway group alongside Brown will embody the skilled and laborious working Lauretta Hanson and Sarah Roy, the climbing prowess of 2018 silver medallist Amanda Spratt and the quick end of Alexandra Manly – who’s a part of the monitor group too – in addition to a debuting Ruby Roseman-Gannon.
Nationwide champion Brodie Chapman will even be a priceless and versatile asset on the group of seven for the highway race and the rider, who began out on the dust, can also be lining up for the mountain bike marathon occasion the week earlier than as effectively. There aren’t any U23 riders among the many choice for the mixed elite/U23 ladies’s race.
Twin nationwide title holder Alastair MacKellar will probably be lining up within the U23 males’s group alongside Dylan Hopkins, Patrick Eddy, Brady Gilmore and the 18-year-old Hamish McKenzie, who final 12 months in Wollongong took out silver within the junior males’s time trial.
The junior group this 12 months, which was introduced in Could, consists of Australian U19 highway champions Felicity Wilson-Haffenden and Oscar Chamberlain, who additionally got here second at Paris-Roubaix Juniors in April. Then there may be additionally Talia Appleton, Mackenzie Coupland, Joshua Cranage, Wil Houses and Cohen Jessen. The junior squad additionally has a month lengthy coaching camp in Belgium earlier than Glasgow Worlds.
Elite males
Street race
- Simon Clarke
- Luke Durbridge
- Caleb Ewan
- Kaden Groves
- Michael Matthews
- Robert Stannard
- Luke Plapp
- Harry Sweeny
Time trial
Elite/U23 Ladies
Street race
- Grace Brown (St Kilda CC, VIC)
- Brodie Chapman (College of Queensland CC, QLD)
- Lauretta Hanson (Macedon Ranges CC, VIC)
- Alexandra Manly (Central Districts CC, SA)
- Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Brunswick CC, VIC)
- Sarah Roy (Parklife CC, NSW)
- Amanda Spratt (Penrith CC, NSW)
Time trial
- Grace Brown
- Georgina Howe
U23 Males’s Crew
- Patrick Eddy
- Brady Gilmore
- Dylan Hopkins
- Alastair MacKellar
- Hamish McKenzie
Junior Ladies
- Talia Appleton
- Mackenzie Coupland
- Felicity Wilson-Haffenden
Junior Males
- Oscar Chamberlain
- Joshua Cranage
- Wil Holmes
- Cohen Jessen