Meet the Riders
As ever, the Santos Women's Tour Down Under opens the women's professional racing season season and brings some of the world's best female racers to Adelaide from 16-19 January 2020.
Here are some of the big names on their way to Adelaide for Australia's Greatest Cycling Race...
Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-SCOTT)
The defending Santos Ochre Jersey winner is gunning for a fourth consecutive title in 2020 and will have the support of a fully-stocked Mitchelton-SCOTT outfit yet again.
Rider Profile
General Classification wins
3x Santos Women's Tour Down Under (2017, 2018, 2019)
1x WWT Emakumeen Bira (2018)
Notable stage wins
3x Santos Women's Tour Down Under (2017, 2018, 2019)
3x Emakumeen Bira (2017, 2018, 2019)
1x Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile [Giro Rosa] (2018)
National Championships
1x Australia Road Race (2016)
Rachel Neylan (UniSA-Australia)
The veteran Australian will lead the nation's representative team UniSA-Australia. Finishing third overall in the 2019 edition of the Santos Women's Tour Down Under was a career-best result for Neylan in Adelaide, but she will be seeking to go two better in 2019.
Rider Profile
General Classification wins
1x La Vuelta ciclista a Espana (2018)
Notable stage wins
3x Giro d'Italia (2018)
2x Tour de France (2019)
2x La Vuelta ciclista a Espana (2016, 2018)
3x Paris-Nice (2017, 2018, 2019)
1x Tour de Pologne (2018)
1x Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (2018)
Chloe Hosking (Rally Cycling)
The Aussie sprint queen will be racing as hard as ever, but in the orange colours of US-based Rally Cycling this year. She's won big UCI Women's WorldTour races like
Rider Profile
General Classification wins
1x Tour of Chongming Island World Cup (2019)
One-day race wins
1x La Course by Le Tour de France (2016)
Notable stage wins
3x Santos Women's Tour Down Under (2017, 2018, 2019)
1x WNT Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (2019)
1x Ladies Tour of Norway (2017)
1x Women's Tour of Britain (2017)
1x Giro Rosa (2016)
1x Tour of Chongming Island (2016)