Organisers welcome teams in oceanside presentation
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Cadel Evans ready to present men's and women's teams on stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race(Image credit: Getty Images)
CCC line up on stage at the team presenation(Image credit: Getty Images)
AG2R La Mondiale(Image credit: Getty Images)
Mitchelton-Scott(Image credit: Getty Images)
Deceuninck-QuickStep(Image credit: Getty Images)
Jumbo-Visma(Image credit: Getty Images)
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Trek-Segafredo(Image credit: Getty Images)
UAE Team Emirates(Image credit: Getty Images)
Team Sky(Image credit: Getty Images)
Lotto Soudal(Image credit: Getty Images)
Sunweb(Image credit: Getty Images)
EF Education First(Image credit: Getty Images)
CCC Team(Image credit: Getty Images)
AG2R La Mondiale(Image credit: Getty Images)
KordaMentha Real Estate Australian Team(Image credit: Getty Images)
Dimension Data(Image credit: Getty Images)
Trek-Segafredo(Image credit: Getty Images)
UAE Team Emirates(Image credit: Getty Images)
Astana(Image credit: Getty Images)
Team Jumbo-Visma(Image credit: Getty Images)
Team Sunweb(Image credit: Getty Images)
Astana at the team presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Mitchelton-Scott men's team take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Bora-Hansgrohe take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Tibco-SVB take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Rally UHC Cycling take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Astana Women's Team take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Mitchelton-Scott women's team take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Ale Cipollini take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Doltcini take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
CCC Liv women's team take the stage at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race presentation(Image credit: Getty Images)
Bora-Hansgrohe(Image credit: Getty Images)
Katusha-Alpecin(Image credit: Getty Images)
Team Sky(Image credit: Getty Images)
The winner of the 2011 Tour de France, Cadel Evans, stood on stage at an official presentation on Friday to greet the men's and women's teams that will participate in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race this weekend. The women's race, categorised as a UCI 1.1 race, is held on Saturday, while the men will participate in a WorldTour race on Sunday.
Defending champion Jay McCarthy will lead his Bora-Hansgrohe team, but will once again face Elia Viviani (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott), who were both on the podium last year.
Chloe Hosking will lead her Ale Cipollini team in a title defence but will have tough competition from the event's former winner Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott), who recently won the Women's Tour Down Under, along with the newly formed Trek-Segafredo Women's Team that recently won the Race Melbourne criterium.
The women will race 113km from Melbourne to Geelong on Saturday, and the men will race 163km. Both events include the decisive Challambra Crescent climb.
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