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Women’s Tour Down Under 2024: Route, how to watch, start list and everything you need to know
Road racing is back! Whether you’ll be staying up to watch it or not, pro cycling is on the road again starting with the Women’s Tour Down Under, where fans will get to see refreshed riders, new kits and even some fresh national championship jerseys.
The race, now in its seventh edition with a couple of lost years to Covid, begins on Friday 12th January in Hahndorf and consists of three stages, finishing on Sunday 14th January at Willunga Hill.
Last year’s Women’s Tour Down under was won by FDJ-Suez’s Grace Brown over Trek-Segafredo’s Amanda Spratt and EF Education-TIBCO-SVB’s Georgia Williams, and Brown and Spratt will be back to do battle in 2024.
Women’s Tour Down Under 2024: Key information
- Dates: 12th January-14th January
- Start: Hahndorf, South Australia
- Finish: Willunga Hill, South Australia
- Stages: Three
- Television coverage: Eurosport, Discovery+, Seven Network
- 2023 winner: Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez)
- Most wins: Amanda Spratt (three)
Women’s Tour Down Under 2024 route
The Women’s Tour Down Under sticks mainly to the Adelaide area in South Australia, so many of the locations in the 2024 edition will be familiar to previous viewers of both the women’s and men’s race.
Women’s Tour Down Under 2024: Stage-by-stage preview
Stage 1: Friday 12th January, Hahndorf – Campbelltown, 93.9km
Two short climbs get the blood pumping on Stage 1 before a probable sprint finish in Campbelltown to decide the first leader.
Stage 2: Saturday 13th January, Glenelg – Stirling, 104.2km
Stage 2 gets a bit tougher with a hard climb shortly after the start with a max gradient of 15.6%, once the peloton gets to Stirling they start the circuit, which will be done twice and finishes with a climb that’ll be sure to shake things up.
Stage 3: Sunday 14th January, Adelaide – Willunga Hill, 93.4km
It should all come down to this one though, with the famous Willunga Hill waiting to crown the 2024 winner of the Women’s Tour Down Under.
Women’s Tour Down Under 2024: Live TV and streaming guide
GCN+ may be gone, but the Women’s Tour Down Under will be available to watch in the UK on Eurosport and Discovery+. Discovery+ costs £6.99 for the more basic package, which includes cycling and all the other Eurosport programmes.
In Australia you can catch the action on 7plus and 7mate. In New Zealand it’s being shown on Sky.
Elsewhere coverage will be on SuperSport in Africa; NBC in the United States; FloBikes in the US and Canada; Eurosport, J Sports (Japan) and Zhibo (China) in Asia Pacific and Oceania; Eurosport, L’Équipe (France), TV2 (Denmark) and rtve (Spain) in Europe; ESPN in Latin America; and Abu Dhabi Sport TV in the Middle East.
If it’s not being shown in your country you may be able to watch coverage using a VPN – Virtual Private Network – which allows users to mask their IP address and watch geo-blocked content, provided they don’t need to pay for a subscription. This is also helpful for watching paid-for coverage while travelling abroad in countries without access.
Women’s Tour Down Under 2024: TV and streaming times
Stage 1: Friday 12th January
Eurosport and Discovery+: 00:30-4:00 GMT
7plus and 7mate: 11:00-14:30 ACDT
Stage 2: Saturday 13th January
Eurosport and Discovery+: 00:30-4:30 GMT
7plus and 7mate: 11:00-15:00 ACDT
Stage 3: Sunday 14th January
Eurosport and Discovery+: 00:30-4:00 GMT
7plus and 7mate: 11:00-15:00 ACDT
Women’s Tour Down Under 2024 start list
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