Grace Brown, Saya Sakakibara awarded Australian cyclists of the 12 months

Grace Brown Saya Sakakibara was collectively awarded the Sir Hubert Oppermann Award, sharing the 2024 Australian Rider of the Yr award after each achieved a string of robust outcomes in addition to gold medals within the Olympic Games.

Sakakibara added the UCI BMX World Cup general and his 4 spherical victories to the gold medal in Paris. Brown added the world time trial title to her Olympic triumph within the self-discipline, placing Liège-Bastogne-Liège to her victory tally and was additionally a part of the successful Australian combined relay group on the World Street Championships.

“Each Saya and Grace stood out with their distinctive performances over the course of your entire 12 months which culminated of their Olympic gold medals, successful in completely dominant vogue,” AusCycling Awards Committee Member Brad McGee mentioned. rounds and get the gold medal. Grace, win by a minute and a half.”

The final time the award, generally known as the Obie Medal, was shared was in 2000 when Brett Aitken and Scott McGrory shared the award.

“2024 has been a momentous 12 months for me on so many ranges and it is vitally particular to have my achievements acknowledged by Biking Australia,” Brown mentioned. “The record of previous Oppy winners is stuffed with heroes of our sport, and it’s a nice honor so as to add my identify to that record.”

Earlier Oppy winners embody Cadel Evans, Caroline Buchanan, Jay Hindley, Richie Porte and Anna Meares.

Naturally, Brown additionally gained the Girls’s Street Bike owner of the Yr award whereas the lads’s street class was beforehand chosen Ben O’Connor Who completed fourth on the earth rankings for 2024 after having a protracted record of spectacular outcomes that included a Vuelta a España stage win and second general in addition to second place within the UAE Tour and the Alpine Tour and in addition a silver medal behind him. Tadej Pogacar within the street race on the World Championships.

“After we appeared on the sheer quantity of presents, we took a second, stepped again, and mentioned, ‘Wow.’” “Let’s respect the 12 months that is been,” McGee mentioned.

“Distinctive throughout a number of disciplines, para and able-bodied biking. A number of gold medals from Paris. And that’s earlier than we delve into the skilled ranks on the street: Ben O’Connor and non-Olympic outcomes, World Championships and World Cups in BMX. It’s been an distinctive 12 months “

AusCycling Elite Rider of the Yr Winners

• Bike owner of the 12 months – Grace Brown and Saya Sakakibara
• a group – Males’s pursuit group: Oliver Blyden, Conor Leahy, Kelland O’Brien and Sam Welsford
• – BMX freestyle sport for girls – Natalia Dehm
• BMX freestyle racing for males -Logan Martin
• Girls’s BMX racing – I am Sakakibara
• BMX racing for males – Isaac Kennedy
• Girls’s mountain bike – Rebecca Henderson
• Mountain bike for males – Ryan Gilchrist
• Girls’s street cyclists – Lauren Parker
• Males’s street biking race – Alistair Donohue
• Bicycle observe for folks with particular wants – Emily Petricola
• Biking observe for folks with particular wants – Corey Buddington
• Girls’s Street – Grace Brown
• Males’s method -Ben O’Connor
• Girls’s observe – Georgia Baker
• Males’s observe -Matthew Glaitzer
• Girls’s Cyclocross – Isabella Flint
• Cyclocross for males – Tristan Nash
• Girls gravel rider – Tiffany Cromwell
• Gravel biker for males – Brendan Johnston
• Girls’s eSports racer – Kate you need
• E-sports for males -Josh Harris