AusCycling is pleased to announce the athletes categorised as emerging and developing in the disciplines of BMX freestyle, BMX racing, mountain bike XCO, para cycling, road and track for 2026–27.
The AusCycling emerging and developing categorisation lists contain 108 athletes for the next 12 months, an increase of six from the previous year.
Those riders join a further 87 podium-level categorised athletes in the AusCycling performance pathway network.
AusCycling Director of Performance Pathways Donna Rae-Szalinski said "it is exciting and encouraging to see the growth and diversity in pathway athletes meeting the standards for categorisation".
"The same can be said for newly categorised athletes at emerging and developing," she added.
"Of the 32 new athletes categorised, their discipline spread is quite even, as is the national institute network (NIN) spread."
Developing and Emerging categorisations: May 2026 – April 2027
Developing
BMX Freestyle
- Xavier Gilbee – VIC
- Keegan Pryor – QLD
- Will Spedding – QLD
BMX Racing
- Noah Elton – NSW
- Charli Guy – QLD
- Joel Marsh – SA
- Bella Schramm – QLD
- Bailey Seckold – QLD
Mountain Bike XCO
- Harry Doye – VIC
- Izzy Flint – TAS
- Ella Menigoz – QLD
- Reuben Page-Brown – TAS
- Jack Ward – VIC
Para Cycling
- Matt Gray – WA
- Madelene McNeil/Sarah Dally – SA/SA
- Lauren Perry – TAS [Tandem pilot]
- Tegan Reder – WA
- Maxwell Sudholz – ACT
Road
- Talia Appleton – VIC
- Julian Baudry – VIC
- Mackenzie Coupland – WA
- Max Goold – VIC
- Jackson Medway – QLD
- Cameron Rogers – ACT
- Sophia Sammons – WA
- Tully Schweitzer – QLD
- Oliver Sims – TAS
- Lucas Stevenson – NSW
Track Endurance
- Caleb Antill – ACT
- Lauren Bates – ACT
- Noah Blannin – QLD
- Isla Carr – WA
- Jack Dohler – WA
- Nicole Duncan – NSW
- Oscar Gallagher – VIC
- Alex Hewes – QLD
- Lilyth Jones – VIC
- Toby Jones – QLD
- Odette Lynch – SA
- Edward Marcks – ACT
- Amelie Sanders – QLD
- Jonas Shelverton – TAS
- Leani van der Berg – SA
- Tom Waites – QLD
- Sam Washington – WA
Track Sprint
- Xavier Bland – NSW
- Deneaka Blinco – QLD
- Maya Dillon – NSW
- Imogen Jelbart – VIC
Emerging
BMX Freestyle
- Koby Carroll – QLD
- Kayla McCormick – QLD
- Alirah Norris – QLD
- Brodie Quick – VIC
- Mylee Toohey – QLD
BMX Racing
- Stephanie Alexander – VIC
- Nate Argent – QLD
- Isla Basa – NSW
- Zane Bourke – NSW
- Aaron (AJ) Donald – NSW
- Cameron Gatt – VIC
- Declan McGhee – WA
- Preston Murray – SA
- Ben Schramm – QLD
Mountain Bike XCO
- Freya Buckmaster – TAS
- Alana Fletcher – VIC
- Oliver Grande – ACT
- Annie Kleywegt – TAS
- Ruby Taylor – VIC
- Connor Wright – WA
Road
- Chloe Bowen – QLD
- Alistair Forsyth – VIC
- Monty Manion – TAS
- Vinnie Manion – TAS
- Caleb McKenzie – TAS
- Fletcher Medway – QLD
- Neve Parslow – QLD
- Hayden Stevens – ACT
Track Endurance
- Elsie Apps – NSW
- Anna Dubier – NSW
- William Brown – SA
- Alec Guglielmucci – SA
- Sam Hilditch – QLD
- Ollie Jirovec – VIC
- Lucie Johnston – TAS
- Ben Luescher – VIC
- Bailey Macdonald – ACT
- Sienna Monteith – QLD
- Megan Moore – QLD
- Maxx Nuspan – VIC
- Ava Schmidtke – SA
- Jack Sloan – SA
- Lachlan Stewart – VIC
- Lachlan Walters – QLD
- Oliver Ward – SA
Track Sprint
- Isaac Burne - VIC
- April Kat – SA
- Ella Liang – QLD
- Mitchell Louie – QLD
- Noah Mason – NSW
- Luca Pyatt – SA
- Trent Rensburg – WA
- Keita Smalley – QLD
- Paige Squire – SA
- Mitchell Stephens – SA
- Sebastian Topping – QLD
- Emily Watch – ACT
- Angus Withington – ACT
- Olivia Wright – QLD
Athlete categorisation is a system used to identify, track, and prioritise talented athletes with the greatest potential to contribute to Australia winning medals at the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
World Championships and Commonwealth Games are viewed as key benchmark events on the path towards the Olympics or Paralympics.
AusCycling follows the National Athlete Categorisation Framework (NACF) developed by the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS).
This framework categorises athletes across five stages, from emerging to podium, based on their current performance and future potential.
The next round of emerging and developing categorisations will take place in April 2027.
The next round of podium-level categorisations will take place later this year.