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Sophie Marr hugs her Praties teammates after profitable the full ProVelo Tremendous League 2025 on the finish of the Q Excursion in Queensland(Symbol credit score: Con Chronis/ProVelo Tremendous League)
Jack Ward as he wins the full ProVelo Tremendous League 2025 and the general level of the Q Excursion in Queensland with largest rival Zac Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak) simply in the back of(Symbol credit score: Con Chronis/ProVelo Tremendous League)
After six rounds of racing, which began in January, Jack Ward (Group Brennan p/b TP32) and Sophie Marr (Praties Biking) had been topped as the primary winners of Australia’s new ProVelo Tremendous League and in addition clinched the pro racing contracts with Jayco-AlUla and Liv-AlUla-Jayco that went to the highest Beneath 23 riders.
The overall battles performed out on Sunday’s queen level of the Q Excursion, with a 111.7km-long race in the course of the Moreton Bay Hinterlands for the lads and a 90.3km-long level for the ladies, and a climb to the end line for each.
It used to be a decent fight for the full league win and the level within the males’s festival, with Ward in the long run charging over the road forward of his key rival Zac Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak) to take the level 4 decider and total league victory. Marriage’s 2nd position, then again, used to be sufficient to peer him stroll away with the Q Excursion win.
“The team … without them it wouldn’t have happened,” stated Ward in an interview put out on ProVelo Tremendous League social media. “They did so much work today in the latter half and bought the break back so I could go for the stage win – It was pretty special.”
The overall win supposed Ward completed the six spherical match with a 21 level lead within the festival for the Jayco-AlUla stagairie position, which is able to get started on August 1.
Marr took out the full and U23 league win and season-long 2026 contract with the Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental staff after completing with a preventing 6th position at the ultimate level of the Q Excursion. The one rider with a shot of difficult her most sensible spot heading into the general day of racing used to be her Praties teammate, Talia Appleton.
The nineteen-year-old Appleton received the Queen level after breaking clear of a lead team, that still integrated Marr, at the ultimate climb with Alli Anderson (Butterfields Ziptrak) chasing. After her profitable effort Appleton additionally got here 2nd within the normal classification of the Q Excursion, claiming 80 issues for the runner up place and 20 for the level 4 win. That left her simply 13 issues in the back of Marr’s 589 issues within the total league ratings.
Anderson completed 3rd at the league leaderboard, 75 issues in the back of Marr, however 2nd at the ultimate level which used to be sufficient to protected total victory on the four-stage Q Excursion, six seconds forward of Appleton, in addition to the 100 issues that went to the excursion normal classification winner. Had Appleton taken the full victory forward of Anderson she would have earned sufficient issues to modify which Praties teammate clinched the contract.
“I’m lost for words. Everyone was like ‘you’ve got this, you’ve got this – basically the pen is in your hands’,” Marr – who went into the level with a 73 level benefit on teammate Appleton, stated in an interview after the race which used to be broadcast live to tell the tale SBS . “But I was like ‘don’t talk too soon’. Obviously the last stage was a big fight.”
Given Marr crossed the road in 6th she used to be simply out of the level issues however nonetheless controlled to ease her cave in the full ratings of the Q Excursion, claiming a the most important 49 issues along with her 5th position at the normal classification of the four-stage match in Queensland.
Within the Beneath 19 class Hannah Gianatti (ARA-Skip Capital) claimed the full league win with Tully Schweitzer (Praties Biking) 2nd and Amelie Sanders (ARA-Skip Capital) 3rd. Ollie Jirovec spearheaded a sweep of the highest six males’s U19 total league desk through ARA-Skip Capital, with Connor Wright 2nd and Benjamin Coates 3rd.
Q Excursion level 4 resultsSwipe to scroll horizontallyQ Excursion level 4 elite males most sensible 10PositionRiderTime1Jack Ward (Group Brennan p/b TP32)2:42:212Zachary Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak)+13Nicholas Thompson (Velofit-Outline Assets)+164Ronan Teese (Bendigo & District Biking Membership)+415Scott Bowden (Tasmanian Institute of Game)+486Jake Cawthorn (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors)+497Matthew Lambert (Tandem Co Professional Biking)Row 6 – Cellular 2 8Matthew Would possibly (Biking Construction Basis)+569Brent Rees (Tandem Co Professional Biking)+5810Lachlan Pennisi (ARA-Skip Capital)Row 9 – Cellular 2 Swipe to scroll horizontallyQ Excursion level 4 elite ladies most sensible 10PositionRiderTime1Talia Appleton (Praties Biking Group)2:38:192Alli Anderson (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)+83Sophia Sammons (Praties Biking Group)+254Frankie Corridor (Praties Biking Group)+285Lauren Bates (Meridian Blue Biking p/b 99 Motorcycles)+336Sophie Marr (Praties Biking Group)+437Neve Parslow (ARA | Skip Capital)+1:298Tully Schweitzer (Praties Biking Group)Row 7 – Cellular 2 9Alyssa Polites (Praties Biking Group)+1:3510Savannah Coupland (Biking Construction Basis)+1:38Overall ProVelo Tremendous League chief boardSwipe to scroll horizontallyOverall League Leaderboard most sensible 5 – Males, *for U23 ridersPositionRiderPoints1Jack Ward* (Group Brennan p/b TP32)Row 0 – Cellular 2 2Zachary Marriage* (Butterfields Ziptrak)Row 1 – Cellular 2 3Tristan Saunders (Group Brennan p/b TP32)Row 2 – Cellular 2 4Brendon Davids (Group Brennan p/b TP32)Row 3 – Cellular 2 5Cameron Scott (CCACHE x Bodywrap)Row 4 – Cellular 2 Swipe to scroll horizontallyOverall League Leaderboard most sensible 5 – Ladies, *for U23 ridersPositionRiderPoints1Sophie Marr* (Praties Biking Group)5892Talia Appleton* (Praties Biking Group)5763Alli Anderson* (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)5144Lauren Bates* (Meridian Blue Biking p/b 99 Motorcycles)3695Sophia Sammons* (Praties Biking Group)303
