It's finally here! The gravel world champs are coming to Nannup in WA and Swans are representing!

We have 11 members competing for the world champ's jersey across the age group divisions.

Profiles:

Future Mrs Winfield Cigarette

Annabel will be representing the juniors in the 19-34 category and after a strong showing at Seven with a 2nd place medal in her age group. She'll be carrying the weight of her nation on her shoulders to bring home the goods with the worlds best.

Kate "We do Bon Bon, We do Bon Bon" Bonner

Joining Annie in the kids category - Kate comes red hot off of winning her age category at Seven into the World Champs. She's in form, she no longer rides for Dome - everything is looking up for Bonner.

Irina "I'll wear any jersey but a swans jersey" Baimatova 

She sounds like a pom, has the name of a Russian, lives in Australia, but actually rides under a Kiwi flag. She's more confused about her nationality than a chameleon in a bag of Skittles. Either way we'll claim her.

Ann The Import

We stole Russell Crowe off New Zealand, John Farnham from England, Mel Gibson from the US, so we've now stolen Ann from the Germans. A previous national champ on the road and past winner of Seven - Ann is here to win.

Jumping Szalek

Continuing to add male models to our roster - the former High Jump champion Sean Szalek coming in with red hot form. Having been getting around Swan Wednesdays on his gravel bike for the past couple of months - don't let his height fool you - this man knows how to win.

Smokin Joe Winfield

Joe Winfield. The Man, the Myth, the legend. No slouch on 2 wheels and even when he's not training, he still better than most. The former elite cyclist can mix it with the best - as recently as this year winning 2 national titles in the club level events. There has to be some internal rivalry between Annie and him for the best result surely - Loser does the dishes for a month.

Alex the Birthday Presant

World class mechanic, extremely handy mountain biker, is getting greedy by trying to take over the gravel scene too, respect it.

Birdman 2.0?

Crouchy started it and Lyndon is taking over - who knew bird photography was such a competitive sport. Translating that competitiveness from the lense on the dirt - Lyndon helped the swans crit team bring home gold earlier in the year - surely he can do it again in the hills of Nannup.

Twin Peaks Tom

Official Club Sponsor - Tommy G lives for the loose stuff. Has he actually trained for quite possibly the pinacle of his cycling career? Strava suggests maybe not - either way you know he'll do it with a smile and finish it off with an espresso in fancy glassware at the end.

Marty the Mechanic

Team mechanic and frequent user of the Swans gravel chat as his own personal facebook market place - Marty is here to f&%$ shit up. Learning some valuable lessons from Seven earlier in the year (knowing that attacking from km 1 is probably not ideal) - he's primed for a result. He just has to beat GCN's Simon Richardson and hopefully plug swans on the show while he's passing him.

Pet Minchin

For the 2nd time this year Pete has been able to drag his family down to Nannup to hand out the bottles for him as he traverses through the dirt. Going against the spirit of at least 50% of the swan participants - Pete actually looks like he has put in a dedicated training program so can the man do it in the geriatric category!? We'll wait and see!