AusCycling has launched the course particulars for the 2025 Australian Highway Nationwide Championships and whereas the situation has moved to Perth, Western Australia it’s as soon as once more a route that’s neither flat nor mountainous, however in between. What has modified is the schedule, with the ladies’s elite and U23 street race now closing proceedings on Sunday afternoon, with the lads’s race having taken its standard morning slot.
The January 8-12 occasion which opens the Australian summer time of racing and decides the nationwide titles is heading to Perth for 3 years, after spending twenty years on a hard and fast course close to Ballarat in Victoria, with its race shaping Buninyong climb a vital a part of the repeated 11.6km circuit.
Because the race strikes to Western Australia the street race will once more play out on a loop, this time one that’s 13.6km lengthy with the same quantity of climbing, with 193m of elevation acquire in every barely longer laps that include an uphill drag within the first half and pinches within the last phases.
“Between the plush greenery and spectacular lookouts of Kings Park, and the cosmopolitan metropolis streets of the CBD, I can’t consider a extra acceptable setting for Australia’s street race championships,” stated Kipp Kaufmann, AusCycling’s Government Normal Supervisor – Sport.
“The course is difficult, however equitable: it doesn’t swimsuit only one kind of racer. A punchy climber could possibly get away, whereas a cagey sprinter could possibly dangle on. It’s anybody’s race.”
Time Trial
Criterium
Highway Race
The provisional schedule has the elite males setting out on Sunday morning to tackle 177km, which is 13 laps of the course with 193m of elevation acquire and a most gradient of 12.3%. The mixed U23 and elite ladies’s race is then set to happen as the ultimate occasion on Sunday afternoon, with the ultimate Australian nationwide street title of 2025 to be determined over 109km or 8 laps.
