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ARA Australian Cycling Team selected for 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships

Jul 3, 2025

Eleven athletes have been selected to represent the ARA Australian Cycling Team at the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Ronse, Belgium.  

The squad, announced by the AusCycling National Selection Panel today, will race for rainbow jerseys and world championship medals from August 28–31.

A strong team of seasoned campaigners including Paralympic medallists and former world world champions make up the team heading back to Belgium later this year, following on from the opening round of the UCI Para-Cycling Road World Cup in Ostend/Bruges in May.

Back for another tilt at the rainbow jersey is 2023 H3 time trial world champion and Paris Paralympic gold medallist Lauren Parker.

Parker picked up in 2025 from where she left off in 2024, starting the season with a win in the H3 time trial, bronze in the H3 road race and silver in the mixed H team relay with Grant Allen and Alex Welsh at the opening world cup round in Belgium.

Joining her in Ronse is Tahlia Clayton-Goodie and Alana Forster both of whom also had a successful 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup campaign.

After picking up two bronze medals on the road at the Paris Paralympics, Forster is continuing to cement her position as one of the top C5 riders in the world.

This year the Victorian won C5 time trial silver in both World Cup rounds in Ostend, Belgium and Maniago, Italy. She also as came away with a bronze in the C5 road race in Belgium.

Fellow Victorian Clayton-Goodie, who made her road debut for the ARA Australian Cycling Team in Zurich, Switzerland last year, returns to the squad in top form clinching two world cup gold medals in the C1 road race and time trial in Belgium.

Seasoned world championship campaigners Emily Petricola, Meg Lemon and Darren Hicks have also been named in the squad for Ronse.

The trio are no strangers to success on the international stage and all represented the Australian Paralympic Team in Paris.

Petricola finished her Paralympic campaign with gold on the track in the C4 3000m Pursuit, while Lemon won silver in the C4 road time trial and Hicks won bronze in the C2 road time trial.

While Petricola will return to the green and gold for the first time in 2025 at Ronse, Lemon, and Hicks both had success on Belgian roads in May. Lemon clinched gold in the C4 time trial while Hicks won bronze in the C2 time trial.

Paige Greco has also earned selection for the world championships after a successful return to the team in Belgium where she won bronze in the C3 time trial.

Kaitlyn Schurmann is also back in the squad after winning two C1 silver medals in Belgium.

While Emma Mickle will compete in her second world championships representing the national team, having continued to deliver consistent results internationally including a fourth in the C3 TT and sixth in the C3 road race at the Belgian World Cup.

Grant Allen and Alex Welsh round out the team for the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships. Both Allen and Welsh had top-10 finishes in their world cup time trial races in Ostend.

In Ronse, as well as racing in the time trial and road race, they will combine once again with Parker for the mixed H team relay, an event in which they have had past success. They finished second in Belgium, while they won the event in 2024 on home roads when Adelaide hosted the Para-cycling Road World Cup.

Victoria’s Tara Neyland (nationally classified C4) has been selected as a travelling reserve.

The 2025 Para-Cycling Road World Cup will be held in Ronse, Belgium from August 28-31.

ARA Australian Cycling Team for the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships

Women

  • Tahlia Clayton-Goodie - C1 (Geelong and Surf Coast CC) 
  • Alana Forster - C5 (Ballarat Sebastopol CC) 
  • Paige Greco - C3 (Lifecycle Cycling Club)
  • Meg Lemon - C4 (Port Adelaide CC) 
  • Emma Mickle - C3 (Southern Masters CC) 
  • Lauren Parker - H3 (Newcastle Hunter CC) 
  • Emily Petricola - C4 (St Kilda CC) 
  • Kaitlyn Schurmann - C1 (Port Adelaide Cycling Club)

Men

  • Grant Allen - H4 (Inside Line Inc)
  • Darren Hicks - C2 (Norwood Cycling Club)
  • Alex Welsh - H3 (Lifecycle Cycling Club)