Australia announces team for Birmingham Commonwealth Games

Australia will compete at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games in August, with Caleb Ewan and Grace Brown leading the charge as the country attempts to replicate its Gold Coast clean sweep of the road cycling events.

Ewan will be joined by Michael Matthews, Kaden Groves, Miles Scotson, and Rohan Dennis, with about half of the group expected to return to the UK immediately after competing in the Tour de France.

It'll also be a much shorter turnaround for Brown, with the Tour de France Femmes wrapping up on July 31, and a similar situation is likely for a lot of the women's team as well. Brown will be joined by Alexandra Manly, Brodie Chapman, Ruby Roseman-Gannon, and Sarah Roy.

Only Roy has previously competed for the country on the road in the Commonwealth Games, and she was a member of the gold medal-winning road squad at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018. Manly has never been a member of an Australian road team, but she did win gold on the track at the most recent Commonwealth Games. Brown and Dennis will also be competing in the individual time-trial.