Graeme Frislie (InForm TMX MAKE) won the U23 men's criterium at Australia's Federation University Road National Championships, getting the jump on the rest of the field to ride across the line two seconds ahead of the bunch.
"There were attacks going and coming back and no one was giving an inch," said Frislie, who launched to the front with around five laps to go. "I saw an opportunity with a couple of the other boys so jumped in with them and felt like I had some good legs so I sent it by myself, rolled the dice, and I managed to come away with the win.”
The U23 men raced 33km, riding 30 laps of a 1.1km course right in the heart of the the Victorian city of Ballarat. It was a race that stood out on the schedule as one that would be fiercely contested, with the under 23 riders of Quick and Jensen Plowright (Equipe Groupama-FDJ Conti) showing the strength of the competition in the category with their first and second placings in the elite field at the recent Bay Crits.
Plowright ended up in fifth place in the race for the criterium title, riding solo in the race while the InForm TMX MAKE squad lined up with nine riders and took out three of the top five positions.
"It was pretty hectic all day. We tried to control it as a team. We knew we had a strong outfit and we knew we had the firepower to win," Frislie said. "A chance came up for me in the last handful of laps so I just jumped on it and Josh showed behind that we had the strength to win anyway.”
| Pos. | Rider Name (Team) | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Graeme Frislie (InForm TMX Make) | 0:47:12 |
| 2 | Josh Duffy (InForm TMX Make) | 0:00:02 |
| 3 | Zachary Marshall (Saint George Cycling Club) | |
| 4 | Blake Quick (InForm TMX Make) | |
| 5 | Jensen Plowright (Equipe Groupama FDJ Conti) | |
| 6 | Henry Dietze (Giant Racing Team) | |
| 7 | Declan Trezise (ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast) | |
| 8 | James Forbes (Knights of Suburbia Racing) | |
| 9 | Luke Roper (Rauland Development Cycling Team) | |
| 10 | Matthew Fox | |
| 11 | Dalton Stretton (VA Pro Racing) | |
| 12 | Jack Menzies (Mersey Valley Devonport Cc) | |
| 13 | Sam Fox (Team BridgeLane) | |
| 14 | Brady Gilmore (Cycling Develpoment Foundation) | |
| 15 | Elliot Schultz (InForm TMX Make) | |
| 16 | Jonathan Farley (Nero Continental) | |
| 17 | Jack Schouten (Onyva Racing) | |
| 18 | Rohan Haydon-Smith | |
| 19 | Cameron Wright (Balmoral Cycling Club) | |
| 20 | Max Campbell (Futuro Pro Cycling) | |
| 21 | Liam Walsh (Giant Racing Team) | |
| 22 | Mackenzie Edwardson (Team CCS) | |
| 23 | Luke Britten (Rauland Development Cycling Team) | |
| 24 | Christopher McInnes (St George CC Development Team) | 0:00:15 |
| 25 | Tristan Saunders (InForm TMX Make) | 0:00:17 |
| 26 | Tom Sharp (Albury Wodonga Cycling Club) | 0:00:24 |
| 27 | Mitchell McGovern (Cycling Development Foundation) | |
| 28 | Ronan Teese (Giant Racing Team) | |
| 29 | Malachi Covington (Team BridgeLane) | 0:00:26 |
| 30 | Devraj Grewal (Oliver's Real Food Racing) | 0:00:28 |
| 31 | Jesse Norton (Giant Racing Team) | 0:00:29 |
| 32 | Aidan Teese (Giant Racing Team) | 0:00:33 |
| 33 | Will Golding (Onyva Racing) | |
| 34 | Fergus Browning (InForm TMX Make) | |
| 35 | Finn Walsh (Tandem Co Elite Race Team) | 0:00:37 |
| 36 | James Moriarty (InForm TMX Make) | 0:00:50 |
| 37 | Dylan Eather (Rauland Development Cycling Team) | |
| 38 | Kurt Eather (Oliver's Real Food Racing) | 0:01:02 |
| 39 | Jai Fielke (Giant Racing Team) | 0:01:17 |
| 40 | Blake Agnoletto (InForm TMX Make) | 0:01:20 |
| 41 | Angus Miller (SASI) | |
| 42 | Samuel Eddy (Team BridgeLane) | 0:01:29 |
| 43 | Ben Metcalfe (Team BridgeLane) | |
| 44 | Paul Wentrock (Van d'am Racing) | 0:01:35 |
| DNF | David Williams (InForm TMX Make) | |
| DNF | James Panizza (Team BridgeLane) | |
| DNF | Andy Sampson (Giant Racing Team) | |
| DNF | Zachary Owen (Giant Racing Team) | |
| DNF | Josh Hanigan (Hobart Wheelers) | |
| DNF | Haddon Kilmartin (Ipswich Cycling Club) | |
| DNF | Oliver Bleddyn (Norwood Cycling Club) | |
| DNF | Aston Freeth (SASI) | |
| DNF | Byron Woods (Shepparton Cycling Club) | |
| DNF | Maximilian Cyreszko (St George CC Development Team) | |
| DNF | Tasman Blizzard | |
| DNF | Jarred Clarke | |
| DNS | Aiden Sinclair (Team BridgeLane) | |
| DNS | Matthew Rice (Lotto Soudal Development Team) | |
| DNS | Tomas Dowler |
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