{"id":108093,"date":"2025-08-31T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108093\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:35:08","slug":"lauren-parker-powers-to-double-gold-at-para-cycling-road-world-championships-with-emphatic-road-race-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108093\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Parker powers to double gold at para-cycling road world championships with emphatic road race victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Parker continued her incredible form at the 2025 Para-cycling World Championships with a commanding solo victory in the H3 road race to claim her <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/australiancyclingteam.com\/news\/lauren-parker-storms-to-time-trial-gold-at-2025-para-cycling-road-world-championships\">second rainbow jersey this competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parker was unmatched throughout the 46.2-kilometre race, finishing in a time of 1 hours 34 minutes &#8211; 4 minutes and 34 seconds ahead of her nearest opponent &#8211; to win the gold medal, even surprising herself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1995\" src=\"https:\/\/auscycling.imgix.net\/images\/lauren parker edit\" width=\"2992\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just amazing, I didn\u2019t expect that race to turn out the way it did,\u201d she said after the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just so relieved and so happy. My arms are absolutely dead, I had nothing left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tackling three laps of a 15.4-kilometre course from Ronse, Belgium, Parker wasted no time asserting her dominance surging ahead on the first climb. <\/p>\n<p>She worked briefly with two H5 riders before dropping them on the descent, before going into time trial mode for the rest of the race.<\/p>\n<p>After the first lap she held a gap of more than on minute, which she continued to extend with each lap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I got a gap on that first hill I thought I\u2019m just going to go for it like I did in Paris and backed myself and that\u2019s what I did,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt strong out there and I just kept pushing. I worked with the two H5 girls at the start and then I got gap from them then I just went for it and didn\u2019t look back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win comes just days after she was crowned world champion the H3 individual time trial.<\/p>\n<p>Parker now turns her focus to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/australiancyclingteam.com\/news\/like-mario-kart-australias-first-handcycling-team-cant-wait-for-worlds\">mixed H team relay with Grant Allen and Alex Welsh<\/a>, where she will attempt to achieve a rare feat\u2014 three world titles from a single para-cycling road world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh finished 14th in his H3 road race, while Allen placed 9th in the H4 category.<\/p>\n<p>Women H3 road race results<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 Lauren Parker 1:34:11 <\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd48 Anais Vincent +4:34 minutes<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd49 Annika Zeyen-Giles +8:12 minutes<\/p>\n<p>IMAGES: SWpix.com<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE REPLAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Parker continued her incredible form at the 2025 Para-cycling World Championships with a commanding solo victory in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-108093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}