The new calendar year is just six weeks old and already the global parade of gravel events is underway. With summer in full swing in the southern hemisphere, RADL GRVL launched proceedings with Factor Racing-Rapha Cycling Club teammates Romain Bardet and Nicole Frain delivering solo victories in south Australia.
The race also decided the first-ever winners in the Oceania Gravel Championships, Australian Frain commanding the women’s top prize and in the men’s division New Zealander Cameron Jones (Scott Sports USA-Rapha Cycling Club) scooped up the new title by coming over the line in second behind French rider Bardet.
In the variable climate of northern Spain, Bescaonina Gravel marked the first win of the new year for Great Britain’s Sophie Wright (Ribble Outliers), who won two rounds of the Gravel Earth Series last year. In the men’s race top gravel competitors Hugo Drechou (Gravel Nation) of France and Petr Vakoč (Factor Racing Team) of Czechia finished second and third while it was Drechou’s new teammate Aaron Van der Beken who claimed the victory.
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