‘I proved last year I could beat them’ – Gravel World Championships gives Tiffany Cromwell her rainbow jersey shot

So often when Tiffany Cromwell lines up on the road with Canyon-SRAM it is in support of others but on Saturday at the UCI Gravel World Championships, she is one of the key riders who contenders will be looking to as a clear and present danger.

The Australian is one of those rare competitors in the pack that has a foot in both camps at a race that may be called a gravel championship but also has much in common with a road Classic. As has been the pattern in the recent UCI incarnation of the rainbow jersey race for gravel, the event draws a powerful list of WorldTour road riders to line up alongside the year-round gravel devotees.