Chloe Hosking - My career 'warrants a salary that is not just me scraping by on the poverty line'

Chloe Hosking in the 2023 Women’s Elite Citroen Bay Crits at Eastern Gardens Geelong on Monday, Jan 2, 2023.(Photo by Con CHRONIS)
Chloe Hosking racing at the Citroen Bay Crits with domestic team Roxsolt Liv SRAM earlier this month (Image credit: Con Chronis)

Chloe Hosking will be lining up at her fifth edition of the Deakin University elite women's event at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race on Saturday and perhaps her last.

The Australian sprinter – who has a victory tally of around 40 including La Course, Commonwealth Games gold and a Giro d'Italia Donne stage – wasn't expecting to be potentially waving goodbye to her Women's WorldTour career at the race which she won in 2018. Now Saturday's 143km race could be either a last hurrah or perhaps a lifeline. Either way the 32 year old plans to make the most of it.

"If I win a WorldTour race that’s 400 points and teams want that," Hosking told a pre-race media conference. "I want to have a really strong showing tomorrow whether or not that is going to net me a contract for 2023."

"It would be fantastic [to get a contract] but at the end of the day, I want to have a race that I’m proud of. And if it is the last WorldTour race of my career, I can be really happy that I was able to do this race, one of my favourite races, and, while not totally finishing on my terms, at least trying to grapple a little control back of the situation.”

Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.