{"id":448941,"date":"2026-01-31T05:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T05:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:57:06","slug":"cadel-evans-great-ocean-road-race-ally-wollaston-takes-back-to-back-win-from-small-group-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448941\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race: Ally Wollaston takes back-to-back win from small group sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"9b2275e2-1bae-4589-937a-a96588c81dd9\">No one could match Ally Wollaston\u2019s acceleration as she launched her sprint in the closing metres to take the win at the Mapei Cadel Evans Road Race for a second year in a row on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-in, Mavi Garcia (UAE Team ADQ) was the first to lift the pace for the 12-rider lead group, working for a teammate, but the FDJ United-SUEZ rider quickly came to the front and powered to the line to victory.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"9b2275e2-1bae-4589-937a-a96588c81dd9-2\">Josie Nelson (Picnic\u2013PostNL) finished second, with Mireia Benito (AG Insurance\u2013Soudal) completing the podium in third in Geelong.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Though Wollaston struggled on the climb up Challambra Crescent and had to chase back onto the reduced peloton the second time around, she was also surrounded and received support from her teammates and was able to recover before the final dash to the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">More to come&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-results\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>Results<\/p>\n<p id=\"3a08ff88-943e-4199-9414-5a9300025a47\">Results powered by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FirstCycling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-589b55fd-16d3-4d69-8e1a-0a9395f6b368\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one could match Ally Wollaston\u2019s acceleration as she launched her sprint in the closing metres to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-448941","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\/448941","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=448941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}