A final Australian summer sortie at the men's Cadel Evans Road Race - Preview

GEELONG AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 02 Torquay beach Landscape Peloton Sea during the 6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2020 Elite Mens Race a 171km race from Geelong to Geelong CadelOfficial CadelRoadRace UCIWT on February 02 2020 in Geelong Australia Photo by Con ChronisGetty Images
Peloton passes Torquay Beach at 2020 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

In 2023 the men’s Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race will provide the final battle in the Australian summer of racing, with the one-day WorldTour race rolling through the hills and along the coast. It is a last chance for teams to head into the season with the confidence, and points, boost of an early win. It is especially a target for sweeping up that final Australian victory for the nation’s only WorldTour team, Jayco AlUla. 

So often by the time the home squad has hit the start line in Geelong, it’s already made the most of its home ground advantage, sweeping up perhaps the road title at the Australian National Championships, the time trial stripes or often the overall winner of the Tour Down Under and even sometimes all three. 

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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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