Jarrad Drizners takes under-23 men's road race title at Australian Road Championships
By Cyclingnews
Hagens Berman Axeon rider beats Sebastian Berwick and Alastair Christie-Johnston
New Hagens Berman Axeon signing Jarrad Drizners won the under-23 road race at the 2020 Australian Road Championships in Buninyong, Victoria, on Saturday afternoon, first catching lone breakaway rider Elliot Schultz (Memil-CCN Pro Cycling) on the final lap, and then holding off Sebastian Berwick (St George Continental Cycling Team) to take the title, with Alastair Christie-Johnston (Team BridgeLane) finishing third.
In 2019, Drizners won the U23 criterium title ahead of Kelland O'Brien – who in turn took the 2020 U23 crit title on Friday. Drizners – who has previously split his time between the road and the track – went on to take a stage and the overall victory at the Sam Miranda Tour of King Valley in October, ahead of the November announcement that he'd signed with US Pro Continental team Hagens Berman Axeon for this season.
"There were a lot of team tactics today, so, for me being an individual, it made it a bit tricky," Drizners explained. "I saw the race forming and I could follow. But we – Berwick and I – rode away to the finish and were committed.
"I knew we weren't going to get caught, so it was a case of being patient with him, as I knew I had the better sprint," he said.
"I've been working really hard for this race, and I'm looking forward to taking this jersey overseas this year," Drizners said of his new white, green and gold national champion's garment. "I might sleep in this tonight – you never know."
How it unfolded
In Buninyong on Saturday, the fast-finishing Drizners left it late, but proved to have timed his run to perfection in the end, winning the Australian road title by three seconds from Berwick, while Christie-Johnston trailed home another 11 seconds down – again, alone, just like the rest of the top-10 finishers, after the race developed into one with a frenetic pace in the closing laps.
Also finishing in the top 10 – in eighth spot, 2:07 down on Drizners – was the day's other stand-out rider. Memil-CCN Pro Cycling's Elliot Schultz had spent virtually the entirety of the 139.2km road race at the head of affairs, first as part of an early eight-man move, then as part of a two-man move with Calan White, having bridged up to the lone-attacking Balmoral Cycling Club rider, and finally as a solo breakaway rider, leading into the final lap as the favourites sought to close him down.
Only an elite chasing group was capable of catching Schultz – made up of Drizners, Berwick, Christie-Johnston, this week's U23 time trial winner Lucas Plapp and his two InForm TM Insight Make teammates Rudy Porter and Carter Turnball, and Christie-Johnston's Team BridgeLane's Tyler Lindorff, with the latter having valiantly fought back from a crash earlier in the day to still be competitive by the end.
The day, though, belonged to Drizners and Schultz, with honourable mentions for Lindorff and White – who also just made it into the top 10 – and for podium finishers Berwick and Christie-Johnston.
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Jarrad Drizners (Aus) Hagens Berman Axeon | 3:37:06 |
2 | Sebastian Berwick (Aus) St George Continental Cycling Team | 0:00:03 |
3 | Alastair Christie-Johnston (Aus) Team BridgeLane | 0:00:14 |
4 | Tyler Lindorff (Aus) Team BridgeLane | 0:00:17 |
5 | Lucas Plapp (Aus) InForm TM Insight Make | 0:00:19 |
6 | Rudy Porter (Aus) InForm TM Insight Make | 0:00:47 |
7 | Carter Turnbull (Aus) InForm TM Insight Make | 0:00:50 |
8 | Elliot Schultz (Aus) Memil-CCN Pro Cycling | 0:02:07 |
9 | Zachary Johnson (Aus) Launceston Cycling Club | 0:02:30 |
10 | Calan White (Aus) Balmoral Cycling Club | 0:02:42 |
11 | Thomas Bolton (Aus) Oliver's Real Food Racing | 0:03:31 |
12 | David Williams (Aus) InForm TM Insight Make | |
13 | Connor Reardon (Aus) St George Continental Cycling Team | |
14 | Sebastian Presley (Aus) Oliver's Real Food Racing | 0:03:35 |
15 | Rhys Robotham (Aus) Futuro Pro Cycling | 0:04:11 |
16 | Bailey Walters (Aus) Memil-CCN Pro Cycling | 0:04:44 |
17 | Tom Benton (Aus) InForm TM Insight Make | |
18 | Cooper Sayers (Aus) Nero Continental | |
19 | Connor Sens (Aus) X Speed United | 0:04:47 |
20 | Dylan Hopkins (Aus) Ljubljana Gusto Santic | 0:05:14 |
21 | Riley Fleming (Aus) Oliver's Real Food Racing | 0:06:50 |
22 | Myles Stewart (Aus) Nero Continental | 0:07:42 |
23 | Samual Eddy (Aus) Bendigo & District CC | |
24 | Mackenzie Edwardson (Aus) Team CCS Canberra Men | |
25 | Callum Pearce (Aus) Oliver's Real Food Racing | |
26 | Tom Chester (Aus) Rauland Development Team | |
27 | Will Ockenden (Aus) Subaru-Giant | |
28 | Fintan Conway (Aus) Oliver's Real Food Racing | |
29 | Daniel Simpson (Aus) Team CCS Canberra Men | |
30 | Matthew Harvey (Aus) Midland Cycle Club | |
31 | Jasper Albrecht (Aus) Castlemaine Cycling Club | |
32 | Robert Parker (Aus) St George Cycling Club | |
33 | Timothy Harvey (Aus) Midland Cycle Club | |
34 | Carter Bettles (Aus) St George Continental Cycling Team | |
35 | Sebastian Barrett (Aus) ARA-Pro Racing Sunshine Coast | |
36 | Cameron Scott (Aus) | |
37 | Godfrey Slattery (Aus) InForm TM Insight Make | |
38 | Kelland O'Brien (Aus) St Kilda Cycling Club | |
39 | Jacob Emmerton (Aus) Avantias Pro Cycling | |
40 | Jordan Schmidt (Aus) X Speed United | |
41 | Campbell Jones (Aus) Oliver's Real Food Racing | |
42 | Tristan Saunders (Aus) Butterfields Appselec p/b Van Dam Racing | |
43 | Matthew Dinham (Aus) Team BridgeLane | |
DNF | Joshua Duffy (Aus) InForm TM Insight Make | |
DNF | Jarrod Williams (Aus) Avantias Pro Cycling | |
DNF | Michael Harris (Aus) Avantias Pro Cycling | |
DNF | Jared Madsen (Aus) Avantias Pro Cycling | |
DNF | Luke Ensor (Aus) Avantias Pro Cycling | |
DNF | Steven Roberts (Aus) Avantias Pro Cycling | |
DNF | Sutton Henning (Aus) Futuro Pro Cycling | |
DNF | Liam Walsh (Aus) Futuro Pro Racing | |
DNF | Ashley Sek (Aus)Kern Flanders) | |
DNF | Kai Chapman (Aus) Oliver's Real Food Racing | |
DNF | Daniel Di Domenico (Aus) ARA-Pro Racing Sunshine Coast | |
DNF | Amarni Drake (Aus) ARA-Pro Racing Sunshine Coast | |
DNF | Luke Britten (Aus) Rauland Development Team | |
DNF | Kurt Eather (Aus) Rauland Development Team | |
DNF | Graeme Frislie (Aus) Subaru-Giant | |
DNF | Tom McFarlane (Aus) Subaru-Giant | |
DNF | Benjamin Metcalfe (Aus) Team BridgeLane | |
DNF | Chase Costello-Manning (Aus) Veris Racing | |
DNF | Byron Woods (Aus) Veris Racing | |
DNF | James Thomas (Aus) Bundaberg Cycling Club | |
DNF | Charles Liebenberg (Aus) Bundaberg Cycling Club | |
DNF | Rohan Haydon-Smith (Aus) St George Cycling Club | |
DNF | Jack Sewell (Aus) Gold Coast Cycling Club | |
DNF | Edwin Britts (Aus) Dulwich Hill Cycling Club | |
DNF | Hayden James (Aus) Midland Cycle Club | |
DNF | Declan Prosser (Aus) Canberra Cycling Club | |
DNF | Luke Wight (Aus) Midland Cycle Club | |
DNF | Josh Sutton (Aus) Sunshine Coast Cycling Club | |
DNF | Bryce Lanigan (Aus) South West Cycling Club | |
DNF | Brenton Ryan (Aus) Ballarat Sebastapol Cycling Club | |
DNF | Joseph Inglis (Aus) Carnegie Caulfield CC | |
DNF | Finley Moutter (Aus) Avantias Pro Cycling | |
DNF | Tom Sharp (Aus) Albury Wodonga Panthers Cycling Club | |
DNF | Stuart Darling (Aus) Wagga Wagga Cycling Club | |
DNF | Nicholas Torney (Aus) Cobram Barooga Cycling Club | |
DNF | Nicholas Simpson (Aus) Carnegie Caulfield CC | |
DNF | Oliver Clarke (Aus) Brisbane Cycling Club | |
DNF | Kael Thomas (Aus) Norwood Cycling Club | |
DNF | Jason Woodard (Aus) Kilkenny Cycling Club | |
DNF | Stinus Kaempe (Aus) Carnegie Caulfield CC | |
DNF | Alex Durrant-Whyte (Aus) Sydney Uni Velo Club | |
DNF | William Anderson (Aus) Bairnsdale Cycling Club | |
DNF | James Farley (Aus) Hunter Districts Cycling Club | |
DNF | Xavier Cooper (Aus) Midland Cycle Club | |
DNF | James Moriarty (Aus) Balmoral Cycling Club | |
DNF | Nathan Burrell (Aus) Bendigo & District CC | |
DNF | Piper Albrecht (Aus) Castlemaine Cycling Club | |
DNF | Hamish Webber (Aus) St Kilda Cycling Club | |
DNF | Ethan Egglestone (Aus) Norwood Cycling Club | |
DNF | Nicholas Njegae (Aus) | |
DNS | Jordan Louis (Aus) Memil-CCN Pro Cycling | |
DNS | Samuel Munday (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk Pro Cycling | |
DNS | Taj Mueller (Aus) X Speed United | |
DNS | Thomas Lynch (Aus) St George Cycling Club |
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