The Santos Tour Down Beneath route will characteristic some outdated favourites in addition to new additions in 2025, because the South Australian race celebrates the twenty fifth working of the occasion which began in 1999.
The racing will begin with the Girls’s WorldTour opener, which units off from Brighton and heads towards a probable dash end in Aldinga on Friday January 17 after which on Saturday strikes right into a stage which finishes on the high of Willunga Hill, the long-lasting climb which topped the winner in 2024.
“We noticed unimaginable vulnerability and emotion in so most of the athletes this yr, particularly Sarah Gigante as she gained up Willunga Hill – a climb that we’ll see girls deal with twice for the primary time in 2025,” race director Stuart O’Grady stated in a press release.
The girls’s Tour Down Beneath will then conclude on an undulating stage by means of Stirling the place, if the general battle is tight after Willunga, might nonetheless present a possibility for some GC reshuffling.
The eye then turns to the lads’s WorldTour race, though spectators could have already had a style of the motion with the Down Beneath Traditional criterium on the night of Saturday January 18.
“We’ve designed the routes to each problem the riders and provides followers the absolute best alternatives to take pleasure in all of the racing motion up shut,” O’Grady stated in a press release.
“A number of the thrilling new components within the males’s race will see them experience down the face of Willunga for the primary time adopted by two ascensions and a brand-new climb up Knotts Hill, Pound Highway. Good group techniques might be essential for fulfillment on this version of the Santos Tour Down Beneath.”
Stage 1 on Tuesday January 21 from Prospect, will ship the primary of two phases that present a possibility for the sprinters earlier than the brand new Pound Highway climb is prone to open up the GC battle on stage 3. After stage 4 to Victor Harbor, stage 5 will doubtless determine the general with its descent and two ascents of Willunga Hill.
The ultimate providing, one for the sprinters, pays homage to the race historical past because it finishes off the males’s Tour Down Beneath on Sunday January 26 on a metropolis circuit in Adelaide. This was a stage which within the first version of the race 1999 was anticipated to attract a crowd of 15,000 although in the end 40,000 packed the streets.
Within the intervening years, with 24 editions of the occasion and two years of a COVID-19 hiatus, the race has grown – with the introduction of the ladies’s occasion – and crowds have grown even additional. South Australia additionally launched an evaluation of this yr’s occasion as they launched the course for 2025.
“The financial advantages this iconic race has delivered to the state throughout its 25 years is excellent,” stated the state’s Minister for Tourism Zoe Bettison. “This yr’s race injected greater than $87 million into our state’s financial system, attracting a complete attendance of 770,600 whereas showcasing South Australia’s areas to hundreds of thousands extra world wide by means of the published.”
Tour Down Beneath 2025
Girls’s race
- Friday January 17 – Stage 1 from Brighton to Aldinga, 101.9km
- Saturday January 18 – Stage 2 from Unley to Willunga, 115km
- Sunday January 19 – Stage 3 from Stirling to Stirling, 105.9km
Males’s race
- Saturday January 18 – Down Beneath Traditional, Adelaide East Finish, 55km
- Tuesday January 21 – Stage 1 from Prospect to Gumeracha, 150.7km
- Wednesday January 22 – Stage 2 from Tanunda to Tanunda, 128.8km
- Thursday January 23 – Stage 3 from Norwood to Uraidla, 147.5km
- Friday January 24 – Stage 4 from Glenelg to Victor Harbor, 157.2km
- Saturday January 25 – Stage 5 from McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill, 147.5km
- Sunday January 26 – Stage 6 in Adelaide, 90km
