Australian men's and women's one-day races safe for at least the next four years
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The peloton hading back inland after riding along with Great Ocean Road(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The final Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Chloe Hosking crosses the line to win the 2018 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Jay McCarthy takes out the 2018 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
2018 winner Chloe Hosking (Alé – Cipollini) with Cadel Evans on the podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton heads along the Great Ocean Road(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Annemiek van Vleuten (Orica-Scott) celebrates her Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Nikias Arndt celebrates winning the 2017 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The organisers of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race reported on Friday that the Australian event will continue to receive Victorian State Government funding until at least 2022.
The announcement means that the men's UCI WorldTour and 1.1-ranked one-day races can continue to attract some of the world's best bike riders to Geelong, 75 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on Port Phillip Bay, each January.
The event saw the light of day in 2015 as a farewell race to the retiring Cadel Evans, who was the first Australian to win the Tour de France, in 2011.
"We are delighted that the Victorian Government continues to support the race, and shares our vision to grow the event into the world's best modern one-day Classic," Evans said in response to the continued funding. "We look forward to working together to take the event from strength to strength.
"The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race is an event that allows fans the opportunity to watch the world's best male and female cyclists compete on one of the world's best courses," he added.
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The race starts and finishes in Geelong, and takes riders on a route along the Great Ocean Road that includes Evans' hometown of Barwon Heads and the famous surfing destination of Bells Beach.
The Great Ocean Road Race 'weekend', which in 2019 runs from January 24-27, also includes an elite women's and men's criterium, held on Melbourne's Formula 1 street circuit around Albert Park, on the Thursday, and family and sportive rides on the Friday and Saturday, with the headline UCI 1.1-ranked women's race also taking place on Saturday, and the men's WorldTour race on Sunday.
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