Sophie Marr Edges Closer to Liv-AlUla Jayco Continental Contract with Stunning Degree 3 Win at Q Excursion

Sophie Marr (Praties Biking Group) and Tynan Shannon (Group Royal Motorcycles) gained Saturday afternoon’s degree 3 of the Q Excursion, the penultimate degree within the ultimate spherical of Australia’s ProVelo Tremendous League.

Marr’s victory has helped consolidate her position on the best of the entire and underneath 23 issues desk of the league leaderboard, giving her a good larger benefit heading towards the a very powerful ultimate degree of racing. Without equal U23 girls’s league winner will earn a freelance with the Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental workforce and the lads’s U23 winner will safe a stagiaire function with Jayco-AlUla.

Lauren Bates (Meridian Blue Biking p/b 99 Motorcycles) got here 2nd to Marr within the degree 3 Lakeside Roadway highway race which performed out on a 2.2km circuit, whilst Sophie Edwards (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing) used to be 3rd within the bunch dash on the finish of the 30 lap and 66km race. 

Elliot Schultz (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors) used to be 2nd to Shannon in a two-way dash on the finish of the 40 lap, 89.5km race for the lads, whilst Matthew Lambert (Tandem Co Professional Biking) used to be 3rd after main the following crew of 8 during the line ten seconds again. The highest two riders at the general and U23 league leaderboard, Jack Ward (Group Brennan p/b TP32) and Zachary Marriage (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing) each completed out of the issues in a gaggle 27 seconds again.

Shannon is now main the entire of the Q Excursion with a two 2nd benefit to Liam Walsh (CCACHE x Bodywrap) after which there are 3 riders on 8 seconds, Scott Bowden (Tasmanian Institute of Game), Schultz and Marriage, who’s the primary U23 rider.

Heading into the a very powerful deciding fight, for each the 4 degree excursion in Queensland and general six tournament collection, Ward holds a 33 level benefit over Marriage at the league leaderboard. Within the Q Excursion Marriage is main the U23 class via 20 seconds on Will Heath (CCACHE x Bodywrap) and 22 seconds up on 3rd positioned Ward.

The GC winner at each and every excursion takes 100 issues towards their tally at the ProVelo Tremendous League leaderboard, 2nd position 80 issues and 3rd position 68 with the choice of issues proceeding to drop thru to ten issues for fifteenth, and one level for spot 51 and underneath. That suggests the highest U23 males’s spot continues to be neatly and really in play all over Sunday’s finale, with a degree win additionally clinching 20 issues and the mountains and issues classification additionally any other alternative to realize issues. 

The ladies’s general and U23 collection chief is taking a look in a much more at ease –even though now not unbeatable – place. Marr holds an 81 level benefit on Praties teammate Appleton whilst Butterfields Ziptrak’s Anderson has a 138 deficit to Marr.

Bates is main the ladies’s Q Excursion basic classification and U23 standings with Marr in 2nd, 11 seconds again, and Anderson 3rd at 15 seconds. 

The general degree of racing within the excursion and collection shall be a 111.7km race during the Moreton Bay Hinterlands for the lads and 90.3km degree for the ladies.

You’ll be able to to find the Q Excursion degree 1 effects right here the degree 2 effects right here and the tournament preview right here. Additionally see the highlights movies of degree 3 from ProVelo underneath.

Swipe to scroll horizontallyStage 3 elite girls’s best 10PositionRiderTime1Tynan Shannon (Group Royal Motorcycles)2:03:172Elliot Schultz (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors)+23Matthew Lambert (Tandem Co Professional Biking)+104Jake Cawthorn (Cobra9 x Leigh Surveyors)Row 3 – Cellular 2 5Matthew Would possibly (Biking Building Basis)Row 4 – Cellular 2 6Eddie Mungoven (ARA | Skip Capital)Row 5 – Cellular 2 7Mack Marshall (Group Royal Motorcycles)Row 6 – Cellular 2 8Ronan Teese (Bendigo & District Biking Membership)Row 7 – Cellular 2 9Oliver Stenning (Velofit-Outline Belongings)Row 8 – Cellular 2 10Will Heath (CCACHE x Bodywrap)Row 9 – Cellular 2 Swipe to scroll horizontallyStage 3 elite males’s best 10PositionRiderTime1Sophie Marr (Praties Biking Group)1:51:542Lauren Bates (Meridian Blue Biking p/b 99 Motorcycles)Row 1 – Cellular 2 3Sophie Edwards (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)Row 2 – Cellular 2 4Talia Appleton (Praties Biking Group)Row 3 – Cellular 2 5Alli Anderson (Butterfields Ziptrak Racing)Row 4 – Cellular 2 6Gina Ricardo (Praties Biking Group)Row 5 – Cellular 2 7Elsie Apps (ARA | Skip Capital)Row 6 – Cellular 2 8Belinda Bailey (McLardy McShane Biking Group)Row 7 – Cellular 2 9Savannah Coupland (Biking Building Basis)Row 8 – Cellular 2 10Keely Bennett (Meridian Blue Biking p/b 99 Motorcycles)Row 9 – Cellular 2