Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race - Women 2025 route

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The 145.7km Deakin University Elite Women’s Road Race at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, takes place on Saturday, February 1, 2025.

The 2025 route for the one-day Women's WorldTour race reverts to the traditional start/finish along the waterfront in Geelong and running in a clockwise direction, rather than the counter-clockwise path taken the past two years.  

From Steampacket Gardens, riders take off at 12:40 local time and head for Thirteenth Beach coast toward Torquay. From Bells Beach, the peloton will make a steep climb up the cliffs and inland to country roads of Mariac and Barrabool. 

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The Geelong 21km circuit awaits, which includes the Challambra climb, with two laps that usually split the field to pieces. In a new addition to the 2025 course, the peloton will go around the Geelong Botanic Gardens at Corio Bay. The final pass of the Challambra climb leads to a downhill run to the finish line on the famous Geelong waterfront.