Australia has introduced its crew for the 2024 UCI Highway World Championships in Zurich in September, with Grace Brown set to attempt one final time so as to add a rainbow jersey to her Olympic Video games gold medal.
Michael Matthews may even be shortly again within the inexperienced and gold jersey, together with fellow Paris Olympic Video games opponents Ben O’Connor, Australian champion Ruby Roseman-Gannon and maybe, for the time trial, Luke Plapp. That, nevertheless, is contingent on him being adequately recovered from his crash within the Olympic Video games time trial which resulted in him having belly surgical procedure.
Within the ladies’s time trial, the soon-to-retire Brown can be joined by Brodie Chapman and Oceania champion Isabelle Carnes. Chapman may even trip the street race alongside Brown and Roseman-Gannon whereas the squad of six may even embrace Giro d’Italia Blockhaus stage winner Neve Bradbury, Sarah Gigante and skilled campaigner Amanda Spratt – who already has a silver and bronze from the World Championships street race.
“Australian street biking has had rather a lot to rejoice this 12 months,” stated Jesse Korf, convenor of the Nationwide Choice Panel in an AusCycling assertion saying the crew. “We look ahead to seeing Grace Brown contest her first, and sure final, world championships since successful the Olympic gold medal.”
“On the different finish of the size, it’s incredible to have younger debutants on board resembling Isabelle Carnes and Neve Bradbury, whom we hope will make a huge impact at their first elite world championships.”
Bradbury and Carnes are each Underneath 23 riders, in order that they may even be eligible for the world title in that class.
The eight sturdy males’s street squad may even – alongside Paris Olympians O’Connor and Matthews – embrace Giro d’Italia winner Jai Hindley, Jack Haig, Chris Harper, Nick Schultz, Callum Scotson and Michael Storer.
“Our crew is stuffed with climbing expertise together with a number of grand tour podiums, plus the expertise of a rider like Michael Matthews, who has confirmed time and time once more his skill to ship outcomes at this degree,” stated Korf of the rider who has raced for Australia in 11 World Championships street races and stood on the rostrum three of these occasions.
The 2024 Highway World Championships in Zurich, from September 21-29, ship programs with a substantial quantity of climbing with the 154.1km ladies’s street race from Uster to Zurich on Saturday September 28 together with 2,384m of elevation achieve whereas the 273.9km males’s street race on Sunday September 29 packs in 4,470m of climbing.
