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The 2025 Format
PROVISIONAL
THE STAGES
STAGE 1: GRAND PURSUIT
52km – 780vm
Fri Oct 31st: Donnybrook
Racing starts at 10am
This course is one of the most scenic ride routes in WA and one of our all-time favourites. Starting in the delightful town of Donnybrook, right next to the Apple Fun Park, teams launch down Collins Street, and turn right almost immediately onto Station Street, then left onto Emerald Street, to start racing the first GC segment of the Tour from the 1km mark. A left turn off Goodwood Road onto the splendidly scenic Upper Capel Road is the setting for the rest of the GC segment. At the 20.4km mark the GC segment ends, followed immediately by the start of the first KOM/QOM segment of the Tour, a long 7.6km climb into Kirup. At the 27.9km mark, almost in the township of Kirup, the KOM/QOM segment ends and riders roll through Kirup and across the South Western Highway under neutral conditions. After nearly 5 kms of neutral riding, at the 34.5km mark the first Sprint segment of the Tour starts (14km). At the 48.5km mark, the Sprint segment finishes. To slow riders down before the Donnybrook-Boyup Brook Road intersection, riders will turn right onto Kirkpatrick Street and swing around the light industrial area to regroup before making the right turn back onto Sandhills Road.
STAGE 2: ROAD RACE
91km – 1627vm
Sat Nov 1st: Balingup-Nannup-Greenbushes
Racing starts at 8am
The 91km 1627vm Queen Stage Road Race features the Balingup-Nannup Road, one of the favourite routes of our TOMR racing community, as well as the iconic Brockman Wall and Kandalee Catapult climbs. The route starts in Balingup, races through Nannup and finishes in Greenbushes. The course is closed to all non-event traffic. The entire route is a GC Segment from start to finish (no neutral sections) and is raced in divisions, so the pace will be high from the gun. The 20km ‘Sprint’ segment starts at the 11.7km mark at Wrights Bridge on Balingup-Nannup Road and finishes at the Reveley Bridge/Agg Road intersection at 31.7km. Teams then continue racing into Nannup, turning left onto Grange Road and turning left again onto Brockman Highway. The first KOM/QOM Segment starts at the 42km mark, as riders take on the 3.6km Brockman Wall. The racing continues onto Maranup Ford Road at the 73.2km mark, where riders take a left turn and make the final push for Greenbushes along the Kandalee Catapult climb, with the second KOM/QOM segment starting at 79.6km and finishing at 85.1km. Once in Greenbushes, riders make the right turn onto Blackwood Road for the exciting 300-metre sprint finish.
STAGE 3: GRAND PURSUIT
62km – 420vm
Sun Nov 3rd: Margaret River Choc Factory
Racing starts at 7:30am
Stage 3 starts and finishes at the Margaret River Chocolate Company and winds through the localities of Metricup, Yelverton, Yallingup Siding, Quindalup and Wilyabrup. This is the stage that decides the winners of the GC, Sprint and KOM/QOM jerseys, and the Divisional Team Champions. Teams start under neutral conditions with a 5.5km warm-up. Once on Yelverton Road the 20.5km ‘Sprint’ segment starts. This slightly downhill, super-fast segment continues along Yelverton North Road, Wildwood Road and Chain Avenue, finishing 400 metres before the Vasse Yallingup Siding Road intersection. The neutral section takes in Vasse Yallingup Siding Road, Quindalup Siding Road and Mewett Road. Once on Commonage Road, riders will prepare for the first 6km KOM/QOM segment, which starts at 37.4km and finishes at 43.4km. Teams will take a left turn onto Wildwood Road and descend to the Abbeys Farm Road right turn at 46.9km. Once on Abbeys Farm Road, the 12km GC segment starts at 47.2km and continues left onto Puzey Road until 59.3km. The final segment is the ‘famous’ 2km Chocolate Hill Double climb on Harmans Mill Road, which starts at 59.8km and finishes at 61.8km.
SCORING & AWARDS
2024 Format, Scoring & Awards presented below
Please stand by for 2025
(2024 Format – Please stand by the the 2025 Format)
Individual and team results based on scores
- There are three segments on each stage (GC, KOM/QOM and SPRINT). Only the segment times are used to calculate scores.
- Each rider’s average km/hr time for each segment will be converted to points (e.g. 36.2km/hr average = 36.2 points). The points system keeps the results ‘alive’ until the end of the last stage.
- Eight individual scores from each stage will be added together to give your team result for that stage. Your four best times in the GC segment, your two best times in the KOM/QOM segment, and your two best times in the Sprint segment.
- A team’s allocation to a Division for Stage 2 will be based their Stage 1 score. The higher the score, the higher the Division. Division A (or WA) will be made up of the teams with the top 10 highest scores. Division B (or WB) will be made up of the teams with the next 10 highest scores, and so on.
Awards
Stages:
- Stage 1 Grand Pursuit: First, second and third highest-scoring teams in the Open Classification and in the All-Female classification are awarded the TOMR Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals respectively.
- Stage 2 Road Race: First, second and third riders in each division are awarded the TOMR Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals respectively.
Final Presentations
- Divisional Champion Team: The highest scoring team in each Division is awarded the TOMR Divisional Trophy and each team member is awarded the TOMR Gold Medal.
- Divisional Runner-Up Team: Each team member in the second-highest scoring team in each Division is awarded the TOMR Silver Medal.
- GC Age Group Yellow Jersey Winners: riders in each age category with the highest score across the GC segments.
- KOM/QOM Age Group Polka Dot Jersey Winners: riders in each age category with the highest score across the KOM/QOM segments.
- SPRINT Age Group Green Jersey Winners: riders in each age category with the highest score across the SPRINT segments.
A brief note about the ‘SPRINT’ segments
The word ‘SPRINT’ is used with some degree of poetic license, as the SPRINT segments in TOMR are much longer than what would usually be considered a Sprint Segment. It’s more about the shape of the segment profile. All the Sprint Segments are on gradual declines, so for the really powerful/heavier riders, these segments are where they will shine.
2025 GENERAL INFORMATION & RULES
TOMR Race Book
- Read and download the TOMR 2025 Race Book (published in September, 2024 Race Book available here.)
Online registration
- $3300 per team of six (includes $300.00 per team for GST, $1000 per team for traffic management, and $300 per team for race medical coverage).
- Only the Team Manager can register a team.
- Upon initial registration, the Team Manager can select to pay a deposit of $600, or pay in full ($3300). An invoice for $2700 will then be sent to the Team Manager for payment by EFT.
- It is the Team Manager’s responsibility to forward the team’s registration link to all team members so that they can register their own details.
- The registration fee can only be refunded up to October 1st 2025. After October 1st, if a team decides it cannot participate, registrations can be rolled over to TOMR 2026, or the Team Manager can find a replacement team to fill the place and ensure that all registration details within the registration system are changed to the new team.
- If, at any time after registration, any individual team member decides they cannot compete, it will be the responsibility of the Team Manager to organise a replacement rider, and organise the repayment of the outgoing rider by the incoming rider. Individual team member payments will not be refunded by Cycling Eventures. It is also the Team Manager’s responsibility to ensure that the registration details of the outgoing rider are replaced with those of the incoming rider in the Race Result platform.
In person Team Manager Registration & Official Briefing
- Thursday October 30th from 5pm to 7pm at upstairs Function Room, Shelter Brewing Co. in Busselton for license checks and team pack pick ups (visual proof of valid and current licenses for all team members is required before team packs can be released).
- Thursday October 30th from 6pm to 7pm at upstairs Function Room, Shelter Brewing Co. in Busselton for Team Manager Official Briefing.
- Friday October 31st from 7am to 10am license checks and team pack pick ups for those Team Managers who cannot attend on Thursday in Busselton. Please email us to let us know that you need to arrange this option.
- PLEASE NOTE: For Team Managers who cannot attend the Registration on Thursday in Busselton, you can arrange for another Team Manager to pick up your team pack, but they must have visual proof of all rider licenses, and all licenses must be valid and current.
Licenses and age restrictions
- A current AusCycling annual Race All Discipline membership or an AusCycling 7-Day Event Licence are both suitable for the TOMR race. (The 4-Week Free Trial membership is not valid for TOMR.)
- Team Managers are required to present proof of the above licenses for all team members at the Licence Check Desk prior to receiving their race packs at the Registration Desk. Race packs can be collected at the Event Hub at Shelter Brewing Co. in Busselton on Thursday afternoon, October 3oth, or at the Event Village in Donnybrook on Friday October 31st.
- Silver Cycling Australia Licenses and Tri Licences are not acceptable.
- Age is calculated as at November 1st 2025.
- All riders holding a current Under 19 AusCycling race licence are eligible to enter.
- Male U17 riders who are transitioning to U19 on October 1st this year may participate in the event. However, female riders in this same scenario are restricted to racing no more than 80km, and therefore must apply for an exemption via the AusCycling national pathways team, at least one month prior to the event. This application can be sent to the WA Office via matthewpoyner@auscycling.org.au. U17 riders who are not transitioning to U19 cannot participate.
Teams
- Teams are to consist of 6 riders with a nominated Team Manager, who can be riding or non-riding.
- It is the Team Manager’s responsibility to register their team/s, forward the registration link to their team members, read the TOMR Race Book, ensure that all team members are well informed of the rules of racing and the racing schedule, and ensure that team logistics are in hand.
- All male and mixed teams compete in the Open Classification (mixed teams are a mix of men and women).
- All female teams compete in the All-Female Classification, but can apply to compete in the Open Division.
- All team members must present to all stages in matching jerseys, with the exception of professional riders who are contractually prevented from doing so.
- No deliberate drafting with other teams on the Grand Pursuit stages.
- Riders are required to complete each stage in order to start the next.
- Protests must be lodged to Commissaires by Team Managers only.
