A two-time individual time trial national champion, Katrin Garfoot (Orica-Scott) added an Australian road title to her palmares in Buninyong on Sunday as she became the first woman in eight years to do the time trial and road double. Garfoot won a two-up sprint against teammate Amanda Spratt to pull on the green and gold jersey.
"I wanted to be here for a few years now, and I finally did it," Garfoot said in a post-race press conference attended by Cyclingnews. "It feels great. Also, the double, which was the dream coming into it. It's very special especially because it's such a rare thing to achieve."
Spratt and Garfoot came together over the QOM climb on the third to last lap of the 102-kilometre race. While there was a concerted chase effort in their wake, the pair was undeniably the strongest on Sunday.
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"We wanted to get to the finish together," Spratt, the defending champion and a two-time road race winner in Buninyong, told reporters, including Cyclingnews. "We knew it was going to come down to a sprint. We agreed we'd work together to stay away and then sprint it out.
"We couldn't have dreamt up a better scenario where we had two off the front from the same team," noted Spratt. "Then there was no mucking around. It was just we both commit to the plan. There's no one sitting on. We just both gave it all. We're both really happy to pull it off."
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