The ARA Australian Cycling Team are back in Brazil this week ready to race for rainbows for the second consecutive year at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Velodrome.
Thirteen Australians will compete at the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, hunting for medals and the rainbow jersey.
Over the next four days, 29 world championship titles are on offer – 17 for women, 10 for men, and two opportunities in the mixed team events.
While the venue will be the same as the 2024 world championships, there are some major program changes.
This year we will see the introduction of sprint and elimination races, while individual pursuit will be removed for C- classified riders. B (tandem) riders will continue racing the individual pursuit.
Here's everything you need to know ahead of competition this week.
ARA Australian Cycling Team
Women
- Tahlia Clayton-Goodie – C1 (Geelong and Surf Coast Cycling Club/VIC)
- 1km time trial, elimination, scratch race, sprint
- Alana Forster – C5 (Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club/VIC)
- 1km time trial, elimination, scratch
- Jess Gallagher (St Kilda Cycling Club/VIC) and Jacqui Mengler-Mohr (Balmoral Cycling Club/QLD) [pilot] – B
- 1km time trial tandem, Mixed tandem team sprint, sprint tandem
- Paige Greco – C3 (Lifecycle Cycling Club/QLD)
- 1km time trial, elimination, scratch race, sprint, team sprint C mixed
- Tara Neyland – C4 (Brunswick Cycling Club/VIC)
- 1km time trial, elimination, scratch
- Emily Petricola – C3 (St Kilda Cycling Club/VIC)
- 1km time trial, elimination, scratch, sprint, team sprint C mixed
- Erin Rowell – C4 (Geelong Cycling Club/VIC)
- 1km time trial, elimination, sprint, team sprint C mixed (sub)
Men
- Gordon Allan – C2 (Parklife Cycling Club/NSW)
- 1km time trial, elimination, scratch race, sprint, team spritn c mixed
- Korey Boddington – C4 (University of Queensland Cycling Club/QLD)
- 1km time trial, elimination, scratch race, sprint, team sprint c mixed (sub)
- Kane Perris (Track Cycling WA/WA) and Luke Zaccaria (Track Cycling WA/WA) [pilot] – B
- 1km time trial tandem, mixed tandem team sprint, sprint tandem
- Michael Shippley – C4 (Balmoral Cycling Club/QLD)
- 1km time trial, sprint, team sprint c mixed (sub)
What they said
Paralympic gold medallist and multiple world champion, Emily Petricola said: "It is exciting to be back racing track internationally for the first time since Paris. It is going to be a really different championships this year with the complete change of events - no pursuits and the addition of more bunch racing and sprints as well as the introduction of the kilo.
"It is exciting to be this deep into my career but feel like I’m having to start fresh and learn new things! It is a great opportunity to learn a lot about the new events right at the start of the cycle so we can piece together a comprehensive plan into 2028."
How to watch
Racing will be live streamed via the host organisation website on YouTube.
Schedule
Thursday, October 16
Day session: 10:00 EST UTC-3/12:00 AEDT
Night session: 16:00 EST UTC-3/6:00(+1 day)
- Women's C1 sprint (qualifying and final)
- Women’s C5 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Women’s C3 scratch race (final)
- Women’s C4 scratch race (final)
- Men’s C4 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Men’s C2 scratch race (final)
- 750m tandem team sprint (full event)
Friday, October 17
Day session: 10:00 EST UTC-3/12:00 AEDT
Night session: 15:30 EST UTC-3/5:30 (+1 day)
- Women's C3 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Women’s C4 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Women’s C5 elimination (final)
- Women’s C1 scratch race (final)
- Men's C2 sprint (full event)
- Men's tandem 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Men’s C4 sprint (full event)
Saturday, October 18
Day session: 10:00 EST UTC-3/12:00 AEDT
Night session: 15:30 EST UTC-3/5:30 (+1 day)
- Women’s C4 sprint (full event)
- Women's tandem 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Women’s C1 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Women’s C3 elimination (final)
- Men's C2 1km time trial (qualifying and final)
- Men’s C4 scratch race (final)
Sunday, October 19
Day session: 9:00 EST UTC-3/ 11pm AEDT
Night session: 14:30 EST UTC-3/ 4:30AM (+1 day)
- Women's tandem sprint (full event)
- Women’s C3 sprint (full event)
- Women’s C4 elimination (final)
- Women's C5 scratch race (final)
- Women’s C1 elimination (final)
- Mixed C1-5 750m team sprint (full event)
- Men’s tandem sprint (full event)
- Men's C2 elimination (final)
- Men’s C4 elimination (final)
Results
Start lists, live timing and official results can be found here.