Amber Pate opens Australian Championships with elite women's criterium win

Amber Pate (Jayco AlUla) starting off her professional career with victory in the elite/U23 women's criterium at the Australian Road National Championships
Amber Pate (Jayco AlUla) starting off her professional career with victory in the elite/U23 women's criterium at the Australian Road National Championships (Image credit: Con Chronis/AusCycling)

Amber Pate (Jayco AlUla) opened her professional cycling career and the elite women's racing at the 2023 AusCycling Road National Championships with a victory, taking out the criterium title after launching off the front with one lap to go. 

Pate had taken flight with Tilly Field (Roxsolt Liv SRAM) as the race in the heart of Ballarat ticked into its final phase, and even though she wasn't expecting to be at the front at this crucial stage, played her hand to perfection, holding off the charging field to claim the green and gold jersey while teammate Alex Manly leapt out of the field to snatch second ahead of Field. 

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.

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