Australian Road Championships: Graeme Frislie wins U23 men's criterium

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BALLARAT AUSTRALIA JANUARY 14 Graeme Frislie of Australia celebrates at finish line as stage winner during the Australian Cycling National Championships 2022 Criterium Mens U23 a 33km race from Ballarat to Ballarat AusCyclingAus on January 14 2022 in Ballarat Australia Photo by Con ChronisGetty Images — Graeme Frislie (InForm TMX MAKE) taking the win at in the U23 men's category of the criterium at the 2022 Australian Road National Championships(Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

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.

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.

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Results
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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