Australia wins Worlds Relay TT
A strong Australian contingent took a nail-biter of a win in Wednesday's World Championship Mixed Relay Time Trial event. The six-rider team of Brodie Chapman, Luke Plapp, Amanda Spratt, Michael Matthews, Felicity Wilson-Haffenden, and ITT silver medalist Jay Vine rode a time of 54:30 on the 41.8 km course in Kigali, Rwanda to take a narrow five-second win over France. The Swiss team was third, :10 back of Australia; the gap to Italy in fourth was, comparatively, a yawning 1:24 to the winning Aussie squad.
The win was Australia's second in a row in the event, albeit with a slightly different lineup. Chapman, Vine and Matthews were all holdovers from the victorious 2024 team, but the Aussies had to overcome a major switch: the departure of retired Olympic and World ITT champion Grace Brown.
