Australian dash ace Caleb Ewan is a confirmed starter on the Santos Tour Down Beneath as he tries to place a luckless 2022 season behind him.
The Tour de France and Giro d’Italia stage winner has additionally received 9 levels on the Adelaide occasion, historically a bountiful early-season race for the quick males.
His Lotto-Dstny crew has misplaced its World Tour standing, however he’ll trip on the January 14-22 race as a member of the composite Australian nationwide line-up.
Because the Tour Down Beneath began in 1999, it has featured a nationwide crew in addition to high worldwide line-ups as a method to give rising home riders top-level expertise.
The nationwide crew additionally featured native stars akin to Ewan, who in any other case wouldn’t have gained a begin in Australian biking’s flagship annual race.
World Tour relegation capped a troublesome season for Ewan, who had eight wins for the 12 months however none within the Tour de France or Giro.
He crashed throughout the Giro and likewise wanted shoulder surgical procedure instantly after the Tour, which meant he needed to withdraw from the Commonwealth Video games street race crew.
Ewan then was a controversial omission from the Australian crew for the Wollongong world street championships.
His Lotto-Dstny teammate Jarrad Dsrizners can even trip within the nationwide crew, alongside Commonwealth Video games crew pursuit medalists Conor Leahy, Graeme Frislie and James Moriarty.
Zac Marriage and Liam Walsh from high home crew BridgeLane will full the line-up.
The nationwide crew for the ladies’s Tour Down Beneath will embrace reigning nationwide street race champion Nicole Frain, Rachel Neylan and Josie Talbot.
Improvement riders Alli Anderson, Haylee Fuller, and Anya Louw will full their crew.
Additionally on Tuesday, native crew BikeExchange-Jayco introduced an all-Australian line-up for the ladies’s Tour.
Commonwealth Video games gold medallist Georgia Baker and fellow Olympian Alex Manly will headline the crew, which additionally options Ruby Roseman-Gannon and Jess Allen and debutants Georgie Howe and Amber Pate.
