Ewan and Brown to line up for Australia at 2022 Commonwealth Games

LEUVEN BELGIUM SEPTEMBER 26 Caleb Ewan of Australia competes during the 94th UCI Road World Championships 2021 Men Elite Road Race a 2683km race from Antwerp to Leuven flanders2021 on September 26 2021 in Leuven Belgium Photo by Luc ClaessenGetty Images

Caleb Ewan at the Road World Championships in 2021 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Australia will be lining up at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games in August, with Caleb Ewan and Grace Brown leading the charge as the nation looks to try and replicate its Gold Coast clean sweep of the road cycling events.

Ewan will be joined by Michael Matthews, Kaden Groves, Miles Scotson and Rohan Dennis, with it likely that around half the squad will be heading to the UK soon after having raced the Tour de France. It’ll also be an even tighter turn around for Brown, with the Tour de France Femmes finishing on July 31, and its bound to be a similar scenario for a number of those on the women's squad as well. Alexandra Manly, Brodie Chapman, Ruby Roseman-Gannon and Sarah Roy will be joining Brown at Birmingham.

“2022 has been a massive year for Australian cycling, and I’ve no doubt that the 34 athletes selected to the Australian Commonwealth Games team will make us proud and inspire the next generation of riders,” AusCycling CEO Marne Fechner said in a statement. “It’s exciting to have a team that features such a strong mix of debutants and experienced athletes, who I know will wear the green and gold with passion and pride in Birmingham.”

Brown will also be one of the riders to beat in the time trial, having come fourth in the individual time trial at the Tokyo Olympic Games as Dennis – a two-time time trial world champion and Tokyo Olympic Games bronze medallist – will also be among the favourites in the men’s race against the clock. Dennis was also a silver medallist in the Commonwealth Games in the discipline in Glasglow in 2014. Ewan, also raced that Commonwealth Games as part of the road squad while Scotson was on the track in 2014.

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.