{"id":92629,"date":"2025-08-25T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/92629\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:39:07","slug":"neve-bradbury-and-jai-hindley-lead-australian-squads-for-world-championships-in-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/92629\/","title":{"rendered":"Neve Bradbury and Jai Hindley lead Australian squads for World Championships in Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"

AusCycling has named the 28 riders who will make up their elite, under-23 and junior squads at the upcoming UCI Road World Championships<\/a> in Kigali, with Neve Bradbury<\/a> (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) and Jai Hindley<\/a> (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) as leaders in the elite road races.<\/p>\n

Notable absentees from the team include Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal), who recently broke her femur in a training accident<\/a>, and Jayco-AlUla\u2019s Ben O\u2019Connor, who is currently racing Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n

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Without a major favourite for the race, AusCycling\u2019s Head Coach of Endurance Conor Taylor said that the Australian riders will aim to be aggressive in the road races, which have been described as being among the most difficult ever, with 5,475 metres of climbing in the men\u2019s race and 3,350 in the women\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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Leading the women\u2019s squad, Taylor said that Bradbury is \u201ccapable of big results”. The 23-year-old will be supported by the experience of Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek), alongside Brodie Chapman (UAE Team ADQ), Lauretta Hanson (Lidl-Trek), Alex Manly and Ruby Roseman-Gannon (both Liv-AlUla-Jayco).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a talented group of riders with a mix of youth and experience at this level,\u201d Taylor said of the women\u2019s squad. \u201cWe might not be the favourites on paper, but that frees us to race aggressively and look for opportunities from early on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hindley spearheads a solid-looking men\u2019s team, which also includes Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling), Chris Hamilton (Picnic-PostNL), Callum Scotson (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Chris Harper, Michael Matthews and Luke Plapp (all Jayco-AlUla).<\/p>\n

\u201cJai is hungry for the opportunity to represent the Australian colours after his major setback this year when he crashed at the Giro. He was a key player in last year\u2019s edition and when he saw the course this year, he was motivated to be in Rwanda. We believe we have a strong team ready to support him,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n

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Vine and Plapp will also represent Australia in the men\u2019s individual time trial, while Chapman will hope to improve on her 11th place at the 2024 Worlds in Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n

Last year, Australia claimed the rainbow jersey in the mixed relay for the first time, becoming the first non-European nation to win the event in five outings. The team will once again invest heavily in the mixed relay which will take place on the 24th of September, after the conclusion of the individual TT competitions.<\/p>\n

Chapman, Hanson, Spratt, Matthews, Vine and Plapp will take part in the 42.1km races against the clock, in which the men\u2019s team of three complete the course first before the women\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mixed relay is important to us as a national team,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cOther nations may not prioritise it, but Australia is a nation with a proud history of success in time-trialling and the fact it\u2019s a team event resonates strongly with our squad values.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot to these riders. When we won the rainbows last year in Z\u00fcrich, it lifted the team going into the road races.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite nations such as Denmark, Netherlands and Ireland withdrawing their teams from the younger categories due to budgetary constraints and logistical challenges, Australia will send a full team of under-23s and juniors to Rwanda, with former junior time trial champion Felicity Wilson-Haffenden (Lidl-Trek) and Israel-Premier Tech stagiaire Zac Marriage headlining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AusCycling has named the 28 riders who will make up their elite, under-23 and junior squads at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-92629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}