Switzerland’s Noemi Rüegg clinched the 2025 Santos Tour Down Under General Classification in a thrilling finish at Stage 3 from Stirling to Stirling. After her standout Stage 2 win, Rüegg displayed strategic brilliance and determination to successfully defend the Ochre Jersey and secure the top prize. She becomes the first Swiss woman to win the
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Dutchwomen Daniek Hengeveld delivered a stunning solo performance to claim her first UCI Women’s WorldTour victory in the Ziptrak Women’s Stage 1 of the Women’s TDU from Brighton to Aldinga Beach on Friday. The 22-year-old ambitiously made her break around 50km from the finish. The chase was strong – particularly between 10 and 5km to
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By Nat Bromhead for Ride On Magazine The 25th Santos Tour Down Under (TDU) kicks off on Friday January 17 as the first WorldTour event of the year, and Race Director Stuy O’Grady is excited to oversee his third year at the helm. “We are thrilled to get the 25th TDU underway,” said O’Grady, co-chairing
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Fiona McGlade reflects on cycling, friendship, cancer and recovery. It was on one day early last spring, as I was training for Around the Bay, that I rode my bike from inner city Melbourne to the base of Mt Dandenong and found myself pondering the course of the road as it rose skywards before disappearing
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Excluding any thought of quitting is the key to completing this epic feat of solo endurance. Ultra-endurance cycling events are a small, but growing, niche, with examples like the Race Across America, Tour Divide (North America), Freedom Challenge (South Africa) and Transcontinental (Belgium to Istanbul) growing in both attendance and media attention. But if there’s
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With the 2016 edition of Around the Bay just over the horizon, here’s the not-at-all-exaggerated, true story of 16-year-old Sarah Maloney‘s words coming back to haunt her on Around the Bay 2015. Oh great, now it’s hailing! Typical Melbourne weather is far from appreciated at this point in time, so you can stop with the hail, no more constant
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Bicycle Network has moved on equalising participation in bike riding with an initiative specifically for women. Sarah Down reports. At present, only one-in-three of Australia’s bike riders are women. This proportion is even less across Australia’s major mass participation bike riding events like Around the Bay, where women make up only 21% of riders. It’s
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From pedaling primary schooler to passionate roadie and racer, Alison McCormack tells Melissa Heagney why she’s working to get more women riding. Name Alison McCormack Age 41 Member of Team Bicycle Network and St Kilda Cycling Club Job Head of Commercial and Visitor Services ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image). WHEN Alison McCormack was
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Margot McGovern takes a look at the long road ahead for women in the world of professional road riding. Last year Marianne Vos (Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team) made history when she defeated Kirsten Wild (Giant–Shimano) in a nail-biting sprint finish on the Champs-Élysées before a roaring crowd and millions of television viewers around the
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It took just a moment for cyclist Kerryn Harvey’s life to change forever. She tells Melissa Heagney her amazing story of survival and about her passion for riding. It was a warm January afternoon in 2013 when keen cyclist Kerryn Harvey and her partner Renee decided to head back to their hotel after a day
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