Brodie Chapman wants to succeed Grace Brown as world's best timetrialist: "It is a privilege"
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With Olympic and World time trial champion Grace Brown having retired at the end of last season, the women's time trial crown is up for grabs. Among the contenders to carry on Brown's legacy is also her compatriot Brodie Chapman who, had it not been for mechanical problems, could've tainted Brown's perfect 2024 season by winning the National Championships. She then lost by 7 seconds but this year nothing stood in Chapman's way. Can she go all the way and repeat Brown's success?
"It's a pretty cool feeling," Chapman told Cyclingnews. "I suppose you could definitely take it one of two ways. Be like, 'Oh no, the pressure's on’' I think a younger me might have felt that way, but I just see it as such a privilege – how cool to go into the national championships, something that I looked up to for so long, and to be actually targeted as the favourite."
"You feel like you want to strut around a little bit," said Chapman on Thursday evening after laying it all out on the line on the 38.4km course around Bold Park, in order to defeat Amber Pate by 32 seconds. Perhaps not the most convincing victory, but a well-deserved one.
Chapman has been on the verge of real breakthrough against the clock for a long time and 2025 could be the year. Especially with the National Champion's jersey on her arms. "So I think that the next step is trying to be consistent with my time trial in Europe, in order to be selected for the World Championships and then prove that I can be a contender there."
Just like every other cyclist, the 33-year-old Chapman also likes winning and she would love to finally score at the international scene: "I'd like to win a World Tour race or stage I mean I've only been on one WorldTour podium, and that was the Giro time trial last year, so that's something that would feel really good," says the UAE Team ADQ rider.
"Also, I think it's not crazy to aim for the World Championship stripes – if I can execute as best I can. You don't want to put it out of your mind and think it's not possible. And then I have, obviously thought about what if I could make it to the LA 2028 Olympics? I mean, I'm not going to force myself to push on if I don't want to just for that particular reason, but it's certainly kind of a little fleck floating around up there."
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