ROAD WORLDS | Changes to Australian Cycling Team for 2019 UCI Road World Championships

Injury and illness have forced Grace Brown (Mitchelton-Scott) and Sarah Roy (Mitchelton-Scott) out of the Australian team for the 2019 UCI Road World Championships which will be held in Yorkshire, 22-29 September 2019. 

Their positions are to be filled by 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Chloe Hosking (Ale-Cipollini) and former junior world champion Jessica Allen (Mitchelton-Scott). 

Twenty athletes will represent Australia at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships including 2015 world championship silver medallist Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb), reigning time trial world champion Rohan Dennis (Bahrain Merida) and Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott), who claimed road race silver in 2018. 

The 2019 UCI Road World Championships features eleven races over eight days in the junior (U19), under 23 and elite categories.  

The road races promise to push the world’s best to the limit with a punishing 285km contest for the men and 150km for the women, with both races to culminate with laps of a technical circuit around Harrogate. 

2019 AUSTRALIAN TEAM 

*Added September 9

WOMEN

• Brodie Chapman (Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank)
• Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon–SRAM)
• Lucy Kennedy (Mitchelton-Scott)
• Lauren Kitchen (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope)
• Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott)
• Chloe Hosking (Ale-Cipollini)*
• Jessica Allen (Mitchelton-Scott)*

U23 MEN

• Kaden Groves (SEG Racing Academy)
• Samuel Jenner (Team Wiggins Le Col)
• Liam Magennis (Drapac-Cannondale Holistic Development Team)
• Harry Sweeney (EvoPro Racing)
• Nicholas White (Team BridgeLane)​​

MEN

• Simon Clarke (EF Education First)
• Rohan Dennis (Bahrain Merida)
• Mitchell Docker (EF Education First)
• Luke Durbridge (Mitchelton-Scott)
• Nathan Haas (Team Katusha Alpecin)
• Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott)
• Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb)
• Rory Sutherland (UAE-Team Emirates)

​U19 

• Patrick Eddy (VIC)