Race Torquay 2020 [FULL RACE] (ladies)

January 30, 2020

Race Torquay 2020 – Torquay – Torquay : 104 km

Race Torquay is a one-day cycling race held annually in Australia since 2020. It is rated as a 1.1 event on the UCI Oceania Tour.

Brodie Chapman (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope) took victory on home turf at the inaugural women’s Race Torquay one-day race in the Victorian seaside town of Torquay on Thursday, holding off the peloton and winning alone after attacking from a four-woman breakaway with two kilometres to go.

The Australian beat Roxsolt-Attaquer’s Emily Herfoss, Taylor Wiles (Trek-Segafredo) and Lauren Stephens (Tibco-SVB), with Rally’s Chloe Hosking bringing home the bunch some 30 seconds down.

“It wasn’t my plan to be alone; I wanted a solid break,” explained Chapman after taking victory. “I was so done when they came across, but Lauren and I worked well together, and the others were so strong that I started to think that we would hold off the peloton.

“I didn’t plan my attack at the end; I sort of rolled out of a corner a bit ahead and thought, ‘I’ll just hit it now, and who knows?’

“It was so tough in the heat,” added Chapman. “I was suffering for the first couple of laps, not knowing if I could survive. It was so hard, but I came good about 50km into the race, though.

“I’m actually really shocked. I’m in total disbelief and it’s just a relief that I can go for a swim in the ocean now,” she said.

How it unfolded

Chapman was arguably the rightful winner of the 104km race after instigating what started as a one-rider move on lap five of the eight-lap race, attracting first the national road race champion of Chile, Denisse Ahumada (Agolico), and later, on lap seven, Tibco-SVB’s Lauren Stephens after Ahumada had dropped away on the hilly first section of lap six.

Both that undulating section of the 13.3km lap and the hot temperatures combined to make it a far tougher race than many riders had perhaps envisaged. The new Race Torquay women’s and men’s events have replaced the previous years’ Race Melbourne, which was held on the Mebourne Formula One course in Albert Park, and are considered ‘warm-up’ races for the women’s and men’s Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race WorldTour events on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

In temperatures approaching 40°C, the racing was more ‘warm’ than ‘warm up’, and once Chapman and Stephens had established what began to look as though it could be the winning breakaway, the chase was on.

No one team ever seemed to have, or want, control of the bunch, and while many were perhaps looking to Amanda Spratt and her Mitchelton-Scott teammates, or sprinter Chloe Hosking and her new Rally squad, Trek-Segafredo’s Tayler Wiles decided to try to bridge the gap to Stephens and Chapman on lap seven, and was soon joined by Roxsolt-Attaquer’s Emily Herfoss.

The two worked well together, and connected with the leading duo on the final lap. From then on, it was a race of collaboration between the leading quartet to try to hold off the bunch, with what was around a minute’s lead quickly plummeting to around half a minute.

Chapman lined the front four out with around two kilometres left to race, and her advantage stretched out, despite the efforts of Stephens to close it. Wiles then chose to set off in pursuit, and, as Stephens continued to try to close the gap, Herfoss jumped away to catch Wiles.

But it was too little, too late, to reach Chapman, who won by four seconds from Herfoss, Wiles and then Stephens, with Hosking bringing the bunch home, 26 seconds behind the winner.

Results :
1 Brodie Chapman (Aus) FDJ Nouvelle – Aquitaine Futuroscope 2:52:48
2 Emily Herfoss (Aus) Roxsolt Attaquer 0:00:04
3 Tayler Wiles (USA) Trek – Segafredo 0:00:06
4 Lauren Stephens (USA) Team Tibco – Silicon Valley Bank 0:00:11
5 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Rally Cycling 0:00:26
6 Ruby Roseman-gannon (Aus) Australia
7 Peta Mullens (Aus) Roxsolt Attaquer
8 Lotta Pauliina Henttala (Fin) Trek – Segafredo
9 Leah Kirchmann (Can) Team Sunweb
10 Arlenis Sierra Canadilla (Cub) Astana Women’s Team
11 Jutatip Maneephan (Tha) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
12 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) FDJ Nouvelle – Aquitaine Futuroscope
13 Alexis Ryan (USA) Canyon / /Sram Racing
14 Simona Frapporti (Ita) Bepink
15 Jessica Allen (Aus) Mitchelton Scott
16 Anastasiia Chursina (Rus) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
17 Nina Kessler (Ned) Team Tibco – Silicon Valley Bank
18 Mieke Docx (Bel) Doltcini – van Eyck Sport uci Women Cycling
19 Georgia Williams (NZl) Mitchelton Scott
20 Silvia Zanardi (Ita) Bepink
21 Lizbeth Yareli Salazar Vazquez (Mex) Astana Women’s Team
22 Ruth Winder (USA) Trek – Segafredo
23 Katia Ragusa (Ita) Astana Women’s Team
24 Sharlotte Lucas (NZl) Team Tibco – Silicon Valley Bank
25 Denisse Aracely Ahumada Riquelme (Chi) Agolico
26 Markéta Hájková (Cze) Bepink
27 Maaike Boogaard (Ned) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
28 Shara Gillow (Aus) FDJ Nouvelle – Aquitaine Futuroscope
29 Urska Pintar (Slo) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
30 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
31 Andrea Ramírez Fregoso (Mex) Agolico
32 Alana Forster (Aus)
33 Sarah Gigante (Aus) Team Tibco – Silicon Valley Bank
34 Krista Doebel-hickok (USA) Rally Cycling 0:00:33
35 Jade Wiel (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle – Aquitaine Futuroscope
36 Victorie Guilman (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle – Aquitaine Futuroscope
37 Liane Lippert (Ger) Team Sunweb
38 Lucy Kennedy (Aus) Mitchelton Scott
39 Grace Brown (Aus) Mitchelton Scott
40 Rachel Neylan (Aus) Australia 0:00:36
41 Jenelle Crooks (NZl) Team Tibco – Silicon Valley Bank
42 Maëlle Grossetete (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle – Aquitaine Futuroscope
43 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Trek – Segafredo 0:00:39
44 Anna Plichta (Pol) Trek – Segafredo
45 Amanda Spratt (Aus) Mitchelton Scott 0:00:43
46 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Canyon / /Sram Racing 0:01:09
47 Justine Barrow (Aus) Roxsolt Attaquer
48 Francesca Pattaro (Ita) Astana Women’s Team
49 Pfeiffer Georgi (GBr) Team Sunweb
50 Marcela Elizabeth Prieto Castañeda (Mex) Agolico 0:02:08
51 Anet Barrera Esparza (Mex) Agolico
52 Maryna Ivaniuk (Ukr) Astana Women’s Team 0:03:49
53 Jessica Pratt (Aus) Canyon / /Sram Racing 0:04:47
54 Hannah Ludwig (Ger) Canyon / /Sram Racing 0:05:06
55 Tanja Erath (Ger) Canyon / /Sram Racing
56 Erica Clevenger (USA) Team Tibco – Silicon Valley Bank
DNF Jessica Roberts (GBr) Mitchelton Scott
DNF Juliette Labous (Fra) Team Sunweb
DNF Anna Henderson (GBr) Team Sunweb
DNF Julia Soek (Ned) Team Sunweb
DNF Ella Harris (NZl) Canyon / /Sram Racing
DNF Anna Trevisi (Ita) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
DNF Ariadna Gutierrez Arzaluz (Mex) Agolico
DNF Jennifer Morales Milanes (CRc) Agolico
DNF Heidi Franz (USA) Rally Cycling
DNF Leigh Ann Ganzar (USA) Rally Cycling
DNF Sara Poidevin (Can) Rally Cycling
DNF Justine Vromanne (Bel) Doltcini – van Eyck Sport uci Women Cycling
DNF Minke Bakker (Ned) Doltcini – van Eyck Sport uci Women Cycling
DNF Marieke Van Witzenburg (Ned) Doltcini – van Eyck Sport uci Women Cycling
DNF Jenna Merrick (NZl) Doltcini – van Eyck Sport uci Women Cycling
DNF Nicole Hanselmann (Swi) Doltcini – van Eyck Sport uci Women Cycling
DNF Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) Bepink
DNF Melissa Van Neck (Cze) Bepink
DNF Grace Anderson (NZl) Bepink
DNF Bree Wilson (Aus) Roxsolt Attaquer
DNF Emma Chilton (Aus) Roxsolt Attaquer
DNF Madeline Wright (Aus) Roxsolt Attaquer
DNF Bre Vine (Aus)
DNF Pia Smith (Aus)
DNF Amalia Langham (Aus)
DNF Sharni Morley (Aus)
DNF Julia Atkins (Aus)
DNF Anya Louw (Aus) Australia
DNF Sophie Edwards (Aus) Australia
DNF Alex Martin-wallace (Aus) Australia
DNF Nicole Frain (Aus) Australia
DNS Abigail Van Twisk (GBr) Trek – Segafredo