Grace Brown and Saya Sakakibara have been jointly awarded the Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy, with the 2024 AusCycling Cyclist of the Year award shared after both delivered a series of powerful results on top of gold medals at the Olympic Games.
Sakakibara added the UCI BMX racing World Cup overall along with wins across four rounds to gold in Paris. Brown added the time trial world title to her Olympic triumph in the discipline, put Liège-Bastogne-Liège on her win tally and she was also part of Australia’s winning mixed relay team at the Road World Championships.
“When we looked at the large amount of performances, we took a moment, stood back, and went, ‘Wow. Let’s just appreciate the year that’s been’,” McGee said.
“Extraordinary across multiple disciplines, para-cycling and able-bodied. Multiple gold medals from Paris. That’s before we dive into the professional ranks on the road: Ben O’Connor and non-Olympic results, World Championships and World Cups in the BMX. It’s been an extraordinary year.”
AusCycling elite rider of the year winners
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