Geerike Schreurs (SD Worx-Protime) on her choice to victory at The Gralloch(Image credit score rating: Gralloch Gravel)
Principal group(Image credit score rating: Gralloch Gravel)
By the countryside(Image credit score rating: Gralloch Gravel)
Matthew Holmes wins The Gralloch males’s race(Image credit score rating: Gralloch Gravel)
Sprint for minor placings inside the males’s race(Image credit score rating: Gralloch Gravel)
A win for Geerike Schreurs(Image credit score rating: Gralloch Gravel)
Matthew Holmes (OGT-Orientation Promoting and advertising) and Geerike Schreurs (SD Worx-Protime) claimed victory at The Gralloch UCI Gravel World Sequence spherical on Saturday, with every riders breaking away from their rivals inside the dry and fast conditions of the race which started and accomplished inside the Dumfries and Galloway metropolis of Gatehouse of Fleet.
Holmes – a former freeway expert who beat Richie Porte to the highway on the prime of Willunga Hill to claim stage 6 of the Tour Down Beneath in 2020 – made his switch 25km from the tip line of the 111km race and took the solo victory a minute-and-a-half ahead of the a chasing group of six. Nathan Haas (Colnago) gained the sprint for the minor placings, taking second ahead of Petr Vakoč (Canyon CLLCTV Gravel).
The first spherical of the Gravel World Sequence within the UK is an 85% off-road route by way of the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere. The event, which has doubled in dimension in its second 12 months to include 2,000 riders from 35 worldwide areas, moreover delivered a particular women’s race – a rarity in gravel the place the mass begins sometimes indicate the women’s space is shortly scattered by way of the boys’s lessons.
Schreurs, who earlier this month was second at The Traka 360, put herself on the doorway of the women’s space by breaking away with former Australian freeway champion Nicole Frain (Hess Biking) at spherical 5km into the race.
“I wanted a troublesome race, and it’s always easier to be with a smaller group on the gravel,” talked about Schreurs. “We had no idea regarding the gap, nevertheless we merely put our heads down for a 110 km time trial. I’m proud to take a commanding win nevertheless due to Nicole for working with me.”
The SD Worx-Protime gravel attacked Frain on the last word descent to determine a 29-second profitable margin, whereas the chase was underway behind to claim the next spots. Finally, Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-SRAM) claimed third, outsprinting Tessa Neefjes (Liv Racing) and Amelia Mitchell (Ribble Collective).
