AusCycling announces Podium-level athlete categorisations for 2023

AusCycling is pleased to confirm the athletes categorised as Podium, Podium Ready and Podium Potential in the disciplines of track, road, BMX racing, BMX freestyle, mountain bike XCO and para-cycling for 2023. 

The AusCycling categorisation framework contains 90 Podium, Podium Ready and Podium Potential categorised athletes in 2023, and a further 88 athletes from the 2022/23 Developing and Emerging categorisation announcement in May.

AusCycling Executive General Manager - Performance Jesse Korf congratulates all categorised athletes and wishes them well for 2023.

“It’s fantastic to see the increase in categorisations overall, and spread across all AusCycling Performance Pathway disciplines,” Korf said.

“That increase is a representation of the extensive pool of talent across Australia.

“Nurturing that talent as the foundation of the AusCycling Performance Pathway is vital to both continuing and advancing the success of AusCycling Performance as we move towards Paris 2024 and the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow next year.”

AusCycling also thanks and acknowledges the careers of five long-standing athletes who have retired from cycling throughout 2022.

Ashlee Ankudinoff, Cameron Meyer and Alex Porter have retired from the women’s and men’s track endurance programs, respectively.

Para-cyclist Stuart Tripp has recently retired, while Emilie Miller has transitioned to another sport.

The following athlete categorisations will apply for the entirety of 2023.

The AusCycling Performance Pathway explained

Athlete Categorisations – January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023

Podium

Track Sprint

Matthew Richardson - WA
Matthew Glaetzer - SA
Thomas Cornish - NSW
Leigh Hoffman - SA

Road

Grace Brown - VIC
Michael Matthews - ACT
Rohan Dennis - SA
Jai Hindley - WA

BMX Freestyle

Logan Martin - QLD

Para-cycling

Gordon Allan – NSW
Amanda Reid – NSW
Carol Cooke – VIC
Emily Petricola – VIC
Paige Greco – QLD
Meg Lemon – SA
Alistair Donohoe – QLD
Darren Hicks – SA
David Nicholas – QLD
Michael Shippley – QLD
Jessica Gallagher/Caitlin Ward – VIC/SA

Podium Ready

BMX Racing

Izaac Kennedy – QLD
Lauren Reynolds – WA
Saya Sakakibara – NSW

BMX Freestyle

Brandon Loupos – NSW
Natalya Diehm – QLD
Josh Matthews – QLD

Track Sprint

Nathan Hart – ACT
Kristina Clonan – QLD

Track Endurance

Alexandra Manly – SA
Chloe Moran – SA
Georgia Baker – TAS
Maeve Plouffe – SA
Ruby Roseman-Gannon – VIC
Sarah Roy – NSW
Sophie Edwards – SA
Kelland O’Brien - VIC
Lucas Plapp – VIC
Sam Welsford – WA
Josh Duffy – TAS
Conor Leahy – WA
Graeme Frislie – VIC
James Moriarty – QLD

Road

Amanda Spratt – NSW
Caleb Ewan – NSW
Ben O’Connor - WA
Kaden Groves – QLD
Jay Vine – QLD

Mountain Bike XCO

Rebecca McConnell – ACT

Para-cycling

Beau Wootton/Luke Zaccaria – SA/WA
Candice Kennedy/Kelly Fettes – SA/SA
Erin Rowell – VIC
Grant Allen – SA
Stuart Jones – NSW

Podium Potential

BMX Racing

Josh McLean – QLD
Matt Krasevskis – QLD

BMX Freestyle

Alec Danelutti – VIC

Track Sprint

Byron Davies – QLD
Carlos Carisimo – SA
Daniel Barber – NSW
James Brister – SA
Alessia McCaig – VIC
Kalinda Robinson – NSW
Sophie Watts – WA

Track Endurance

Amber Pate – SA
Alyssa Polites – VIC
Alli Anderson – SA
Lauren Perry – TAS
Blake Agnoletto – VIC
Liam Walsh – QLD
Oliver Bleddyn – SA
Patrick Eddy – VIC

Road

Georgina Howe – VIC
Neve Bradbury – VIC
Sarah Gigante – VIC
Jack Haig – VIC
Jensen Plowright – VIC
Lucas Hamilton – VIC
Matthew Dinham – NSW
Michael Storer – WA
Nicholas Schultz – QLD

Mountain Bike XCO

Cameron Wright – QLD
Sam Fox – TAS
Zoe Cuthbert – ACT

Para-cycling

Kaitlyn Schurmann – SA
Sharon Boyd – VIC
Kyle Willis – QLD
Alex Welsh – QLD

2022/23 Developing and Emerging categorisation lists can be found here.

The next round of Developing and Emerging categorisations will take place in April 2023.

The next round of Podium-level categorisations will take place in October/November 2023.