Bathurst Cycling Club's 2020 ANZAC Day Trophy dedicated to nurse Mary Phillips Robertson

Since 2014 the club has dedicated the trophy to a Bathurst serviceman but appropriately, in a world locked down by the spread of coronavirus, a nurse will receive the honour this year.

The dedication has gone to Mary Phillips Robertson who, as the grandmother of current club member Rosemary Hastings, has a special connections which carries through to the club in the present day.

Bathurst Cycling Club's Mark Windsor said the memorial component of the event has become the main focus, and no virus will be able to stop that from still going ahead.

"We added a memorial to a fallen solder from the club from World War 1, and that's become the key part of the day," he said.

"This year it's a nurse, which is very fitting giving the Covid-19 situation, and her name was Mary Phillips Robertson. She wasn't a bike rider but she was Rosemary Hastings' grandmother.

"It's important that we honour women for the effort they play not only in World War 1 but for the Spanish Flu which followed, and their great care for families."

Robertson was one of four World War 1 enlistees from her family along with her brothers David, John and Stewart Robertson.

Robertson was trained in a newly built hospital in Glasgow called the Stobhill Hospital, which was converted into two military hospitals known as the third and fourth Scottish General hospitals during the war.

The nurses were requisitioned into the British army's Territorial Force personnel and the Queen's (Alexandra) Imperial Nursing Services Reserve.

The hospital saw over 1,000 patients at a time, suffering the worst battlefield wounds and diseases.

In the absence of this year's ANZAC Day race we're taking a look back at all the events since the memorials began in 2014.

Dedicated to: John Ford

Winner: Nick Barrett

Fastest time: Brad Rayner

First female: Caroline Robertson

The ANZAC spirit of mateship was on great display during last year's edition of the race as eventual winner Nick Barrett and his riding group shared the workload to stay clear of their faster rivals.

Barrett worked together with his fellow seven minute bunch riders as well as those off six minutes to deny the back markers, beating home Bruce Hutton and Graham Stait to claim the trophy.

"I very much enjoyed the dedication of the race to John Ford," Barrett said after the event.

"I had a little twinge of should I be riding today to be honest, but when I got here and realised it was dedicated so beautifully to that ANZAC spirit, it made me feel very much at peace with riding.

"There's some great similarities of working together and sticking with the bunch you've been put with. Only together can you succeed in a handicap race."

Dedicated to: Robert Henry Harris

Winner: Tom Bolton

Fastest time: Tom Bolton

First female: Kirsten Howard

Riding off scratch wasn't enough to stop Tom Bolton in 2018's ANZAC Day event as he rode past literally every other rider on the road to claim the top prize.

Bolton led out the sprint for home and was able to hold off Craig Hutton, while Josh Corcoran rounded out the podium in third.

"There were four of us on scratch and it was a fast start, but everyone worked really well together and we caught the group in front. We kept working well together and it all came back for a sprint," Bolton said.

"It was only once we caught the front that everyone had their own ambitions and started to do what they wanted to do, but yeah, everyone worked well together.

The race honoured O'Connell cyclist Robert Henry Harris, who served in the 55th Battalion, 14th Brigade of the 5th Australian Division at Fromelles, Polygon Wood and Villers Brettonneux.

Dedicated to: John McKay

Winner: Harry Carter

Fastest time: Josh Corcoran

First female: Hollee Simons

The 2017 race honoured young Evans Plains farmer John McKay, whose promising cycling career was cut short when he was killed in action on the Western Front in World War 1.

Harry Carter, inspired by the acknowledgement of Little John McKay before the event was very motivated and combined well with his bunch to ride through the field and hold off the scratch bunch who chased hard for the entire race. He defeated Billy Hutton and Mark Windsor.

"That around 70 percent of the club went to World War I is just incredible," Carter said.

"It's a great thing that we come together as a small community at the bike club and this is our way of paying respect and our way of honouring the members of our club who went to the war."

Dedicated to: E Johnson

Winner: Scott Allen

Fastest time: Dean Windsor

First female: Kalinda Robinson

The finish of the 2016 event was shaping up as a battle between Brooke Tuynman and Kalinda Robinson, as they attacked on St Johns Hill, but a desperate Scott Allan recovered well and caught the pair at the finish to take the victory.

Robinson came up just short of repeating the effort of fellow junior rider Eliza Bennett a year earlier, coming home in second ahead of Brooke Tuynman. Damian Bennett and Isaiah Bennett made up the top five.

"It's been a long time. Been at the club 23 years and I've finally got a trophy race," Allen said shortly after crossing the line.

"Each year we remember somebody from the club and this year we remembered Mr Johnson and it was an honour to win this race for him."

Dedicated to: R G Honeyman

Winner: Eliza Bennett

Fastest time: Steve Bennett

First female: Eliza Bennett

The 2015 race was dedicated to R G Honeyman, a young farmer from a very well-known cycling family from Raglan.

Honeyman sadly lost his life in World War 1 to one of his own bullets in a tragic accident - an especially cruel death he after he made it through several battles with the 7th Light Horse Regiment.

The Bathurst ANZAC race that year was taken out by rising junior Eliza Bennett, who remains the last female rider to take out the event.

Bennett won the race ahead of fellow 21 minute markers Robyn Partridge and Orange's Peter Rodgers.

Dedicated to: Jack Windsor

Winner: Ayden Toovey

Fastest time: Ayden Toovey

First female: Kirsten Howard

It was a big moment for the ANZAC Day event, being the first year of dedications for the trophy, and it appropriately featured a super classy field.

The scratch group were simply unstoppable.

It was Ayden Toovey of Mudgee that jumped clear in the run to the finish to take the win in a new Course Record time.

Harry Carter making it a 1-2 for Subaru NSWIS with Blair Windsor and another of the Subaru NSWIS riders Jordan Payne fourth in front of Mark Windsor.