In a huge boost for the event, both the male and female winners from 2016 have returned for the 2017 NAB Blayney 2 Bathurst 110 kilometre challange.
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But they won’t have it all their own way this weekend.
In fact not only have Dylan Sunderland and Lucy Bechtel again entered the 110km long course but both winners of the 70km short course in 2016, Stephen Cuff and Chloe Heffernan have moved up to the long course as serious contenders.
Coming off and impressive win in the recent 2017 Orica Kermesse, last year’s B2B men’s winner Sunderland looks in great form and ready for a big weekend in Bathurst after entering in the NSW Hill Climb Champs on the Saturday morning and then the division one Criterium in the afternoon which will be contested in the center of Bathurst.
After winning the women’s long course in 2016, Bechtel raced overseas in America before return to Australia where she was seventh in the recent Oceania Road Race Championships.
