UCI Gravel World Series – Brendan Johnston and Talia Appleton claim the Devils Cardigan

It was one other Australian UCI Gravel World Collection spherical victory for Brendan Johnston (Big) and Talia Appleton (Praties) with the Gravelista winners hanging once more at Devils Cardigan Tasmania to say the sack of potatoes and handmade wooly cardigan winners trophy to maintain them heat on the celebrations on the pub in Derby on Saturday night.

Johnston completed the 106km males’s race in three hours and 24 minutes to snag the winner’s trophy – a sack of potatoes and handmade wooly cardigan winners to maintain the celebrating riders heat on the pub in Derby on Saturday night. The defending champion crossed the road somewhat greater than three minutes forward of 2022 winner Tasman Nankervis with Scott Bowden (Big x Shimano) only a additional minute again in third whereas new Australian gravel champion Mark O’Brien was simply behind in fourth.

Appleton received the ladies’s race in 4 hours and three minutes, holding off the cost of the nation’s new gravel champion Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto). Cromwell completed round 4 minutes again, having been out entrance with Appleton however then had a puncture round half approach by way of.

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“Massive congrats to Talia Appleton on the win. Sturdy experience and was pushing me rather a lot once we had been collectively,” stated Cromwell in a publish on social media. “Ultimately she was too robust for me to have the ability to catch again after my flat and took a effectively deserved win.”

The 2022 Australian gravel champion Holly Harris, was third within the girls’s race, crossing the road 25 minutes after Appleton.

The race, which hosted the Australian Gravel Championships the previous two years and in 2025 joined the UCI Gravel World Collection, performed out in sunny situations though it was nonetheless a cool and misty begin for the occasion within the southernmost state of Australia.

The course within the north east of the wilderness heavy state has simply 13% paved roads and 2300m of elevation achieve with three key climbs, Mutual Valley, 8.3km with a mean of 4.2%, then Ralph Falls, 10.7km at 5% and with a most gradient of 16%, and the “un-named climb of hell”. That climb is 3.5km at 8.1% however has a descent early within the climb so really runs at 9% by way of a lot of the climb and has a most gradient of 15%. There may be additionally one other small however, with round 100km of racing within the legs, difficult kicker throughout the remaining 10km.

The Devils Cardigan is now certainly one of three UCI Gravel World Collection races in Australia. Gravelista, which performed out in October however remains to be among the many qualifying rounds for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, was additionally received by Johnston and Appleton. Subsequent weekend the racing moved onto SEVEN in Nannup Western Australia, which was the primary of the Australian occasions to hitch the world sequence and in 2026 will host the UCI Gravel World Championships.