ProVelo Super League: Oliver Sims and Odette Lynch close off SA Kick It with stage 3 victory

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Lynch also claims women's overall victory at the first round of top-tier domestic race series while stage 1 winner Conor Leahy maintains lead in men's category

The women's sprint battle on the stage 3 road race of SA Kick It, the opening round of the ProVelo Super League for 2026
The women's sprint battle on the stage 3 road race of SA Kick It, the opening round of the ProVelo Super League for 2026 (Image credit: ProVelo Super League / Beardy McBeard)
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The opening round of the ProVelo Super League, SA Kick It, concluded with a scorching final round on Monday, with Odette Lynch (Butterfields Ziptrak) and Oliver Sims (COBRA9 x Leigh Surveyors) claiming the wins at Bend Motorsport Park.

Start times were shifted early given the weather, with temperatures in the area hitting 45°C on Monday. The 11-lap 85.8km women's race began at 7:00am, so with the 9:20am finish escaped the fiery temperatures, though Lynch turned up the heat on her rivals with the Butterfields Ziptrak rider scooping up six bonus seconds during the stage which meant she was all of a sudden in within a chance of taking overall victory.

The winning sprint on the final line then consolidated that move into the top spot, with Lynch beating Amelie Sanders (Meridian Bikebug) while Claudia Marcks snared third place.

In the 14-lap 109.2km men's race a break of five went out with 30km to go and while the gap never got too big, the break was still out front for the final lap although the gap certainly was slimming. Still, with the bunch closing,

Sims and Ivan Bennett (Butterfields Ziptrak) dashed to the line and held off the pursuit with Sims shooting from behind Bennett's wheel to claim victory. The group then crossed the line two seconds later, with Kurt Eather (CCACHE x Bodywrap) leading the bunch to take third. Conor Leahy (Team Brennan) crossed the line in fourth.

That was enough to keep the winner of the stage 1 time trial in the top spot overall, with a nine second advantage to his teammate, stage 2 criterium winner Tom Cornish.

Results

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Stage 3 men's top 5 – SA Kick It

Position

Rider

Time

1

Oliver Sims

2:14:25

2

Iven Bennett

Row 1 - Cell 2

3

Kurt Eather

+2

4

Conor Leahy

Row 3 - Cell 2

5

Graeme Frislie

Row 4 - Cell 2
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Stage 3 women's top 5 – SA Kick It

Position

Rider

Time

1

Odette Lynch

2:03:06

2

Amelie Sanders

Row 1 - Cell 2

3

Claudia Marcks

Row 2 - Cell 2

4

Belinda Bailey

Row 3 - Cell 2

5

Alyssa Polites

Row 4 - Cell 2
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Simone Giuliani
Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.

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