Brodie Chapman targets time trial title with new team

The 2025 AusCycling Road National Championships will mark the start of a new chapter in the career of2023 road national champion Brodie Chapman.

It will be the first time she lines up for her new professional team UAE Team ADQ, making the move from Lidl-Trek, with whom she won her Australian road title in Ballarat.

Come Thursday, January 9, as she stares down the start ramp of the individual time trial in Perth, she will have one goal in mind: ride as hard and fast as possible in a bid to clinch another national title.

 “The TT is my main goal for nationals. (I’m) excited to race on my new bike and have the support my family and friends from Perth,” the Queenslander said.

Chapman has stepped up her skills as a time triallist since her third place at Nationals in 2023 behind Grace Brown and Georgie Howe. Earlier this year, she improved to second, again behind Brown by just 7 seconds. 

The 2024 elite women's time trial podium: Brodie Chapman, Grace Brown and Georgie Howe. (Picture: Josh Chadwick)

The retirement of Oppy winner Grace Brown, who won the last three time trial national championships, opens to the door to a new champion in 2025. Chapman will go into this January’s event as the top favourite. 

This year, Chapman finished no worse than seventh in all individual time trials leading up to the World Championships in Zurich, where she joined the ARA Australian Cycling Team to win the rainbow bands in the Mixed Relay Team Time Trial.

 In the ITT, she was just outside the top 10, finishing 11^th.

While her focus in Perth will be on the time trial, the road race will feel different for Chapman next year, who is lining up for the first time with no teammates.

Tactics will be crucial for Chapman if she wants to reclaim the national title from the likes of defending champion Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco) and her former teammates at Lidl-Trek.

“I’m looking forward to the new course, it will be dynamic and I’ll be trying to get up the road away from the sprinters. I’ll be alone this year, so I have to be smart,” Chapman said.

The 2025 AusCycling Road National Championships will be held from January 8-12 in Perth.

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