Australian riders have definitely had their eras of success at Paris-Roubaix, this nevertheless isn’t one among them. Simply three riders from the nation had been on the beginning line in 2025 and the perfect positioned finisher from amongst these came visiting the road in 82nd however provided that rider was a debuting 20-year-old Oscar Chamberlain (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) the embers of hope for a resurgence within the years forward are nonetheless burning.
The second-youngest rider on the start-line of the race, a runner-up within the 2023 junior version of Paris-Roubaix, went into the 2025 occasion “desperate to get on the bike and on the cobbles and see what hell seems like”, including in an interview shared by Australian broadcaster SBS that the race for him was about getting expertise, serving to the workforce and making it to the velodrome throughout the time restrict.
