# Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race also known as Great Ocean Road Race or Cadel Road Race is an annual professional one-day road bicycle racing for both men and women starting and finishing in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and routed along the picturesque Great Ocean Road. The first race was held in 2015, as the farewell race for Cadel Evans—Australia's only Tour de France winner or Road World Champion. The 2017 edition was added to the UCI World Tour for the first time.
In November 2020, it was announced that the 2021 race would not be held due to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic. This was due in part to a number of UCI WorldTour teams making the decision to stay in Europe due to uncertainty around international travel conditions and logistics of quarantine requirements.
The event returned in January 2023, featuring on both the men's and women's World Tour calendars.

## Course

The men's version is 176 km (109 mi), while the women's is 143 km (89 mi). In 2023, the mass participation People's Ride includes three distance options—35km, 50km, or 125km.
The race starts on the Geelong waterfront in Victoria, and travels westward to the rolling hills of Moriac, turning south toward the famous surf beach of Bells Beach, following the surf coast to Torquay and through Cadel’s hometown of Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove, before heading north back to a Geelong circuit before finishing back around on the waterfront. The course is suited to puncheurs.

## Results
### Men's race

| Year | Country | Rider | Team |
| 2015 | Belgium | Gianni Meersman | Etixx–Quick-Step |
| 2016 | Great Britain | Peter Kennaugh | Team Sky |
| 2017 | Germany | Nikias Arndt | Team Sunweb |
| 2018 | Australia | Jay McCarthy | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| 2019 | Italy | Elia Viviani | Deceuninck–Quick-Step |
| 2020 | Belgium | Dries Devenyns | Deceuninck–Quick-Step |
| 2021 | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022 | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2023 | Germany | Marius Mayrhofer | Team DSM |
| 2024 | New Zealand | Laurence Pithie | Groupama–FDJ |
| 2025 | Switzerland | Mauro Schmid | Team Jayco–AlUla |

#### Wins per country

| Wins | Country |
| 2 | Belgium Germany |
| 1 | Australia Great Britain Italy New Zealand Switzerland |

### Women's race

| Year | Country | Rider | Team |
| 2015 | Australia | Rachel Neylan | Building Champions Squad |
| 2016 | Australia | Amanda Spratt | Orica–AIS |
| 2017 | Netherlands | Annemiek van Vleuten | Orica–Scott |
| 2018 | Australia | Chloe Hosking | Alé–Cipollini |
| 2019 | Cuba | Arlenis Sierra | Astana |
| 2020 | Germany | Liane Lippert | Team Sunweb |
| 2021 | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022 | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic | No race due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2023 | Netherlands | Loes Adegeest | FDJ–Suez |
| 2024 | Netherlands | Rosita Reijnhout | Visma–Lease a Bike |
| 2025 | New Zealand | Ally Wollaston | FDJ–Suez |

#### Wins per country

| Wins | Country |
| 3 | Australia Netherlands |
| 1 | Cuba Germany New Zealand |

## Melbourne pre-race criterium

In 2017 the pre-race criterium was known as the Race Melbourne - Albert Park, becoming the Towards Zero Race Melbourne in 2018. In 2019 the race was held in a team-based format with points awarded for sprints. Deceuninck-QuickStep won the men's event and Trek Segafredo won the women's event. In 2020 the race was not held and was replaced by Race Torquay.

### Men's race

| Year | Country | Rider | Team |
| 2017 | Ireland | Sam Bennett | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| 2018 | Ireland | Sam Bennett | Bora–Hansgrohe |

### Women's race

| Year | Country | Rider | Team |
| 2017 | Netherlands | Kirsten Wild | Cylance Pro Cycling |
| 2018 | Australia | Annette Edmondson | Wiggle High5 |