Niamh Fisher-Black leads youthful New Zealand ladies’s workforce for Highway Worlds
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After delivering a skeleton workforce to the Highway World Championships in Wollongong in 2022 amid a prices squeeze, New Zealand is as soon as once more again in power within the chase for the rainbow jersey in 2023.
The nation shall be sending a six sturdy males’s elite workforce to contest the 271km highway race on August 6 on the Glasgow World Championships – in comparison with its lone competitor within the class final yr – and shall be backing the 2022 U23 world title holder, Niamh Fisher-Black, with a six rider highway squad for the mixed elite and U23 ladies’s highway race.
On prime of that an extra two riders have been added to the tally for the 36.2km U23/elite ladies’s time trial on Thursday August 10 and for the 47.8km males’s elite time trial on Friday August 11.
The 2023 occasion, a multidiscipline version which wraps in 13 UCI Biking World Championships, can even see George Bennett donning the silver fern once more for the primary time since 2020. The UAE Group Emirates climber shall be lining up alongside Patrick Bevin, Ryan Christensen, New Zealand champion James Oram, the 21-year-old Cholet-Pays-de-la-Loire winner Laurence Pithie and Corbin Sturdy, who shall be becoming a member of the workforce after taking over his first Tour de France.
The 21-year-old Finn Fisher-Black, who completed within the prime ten amongst a robust area within the remaining Tour de Suisse time trial in June, will line up for New Zealand within the elite males’s race in opposition to the clock alongside Oceania champion Tom Sexton.
For the elite/U23 ladies’s time trial, the skilled New Zealand champion Georgia Williams shall be lining up alongside Oceania champion Georgia Perry and the 20-year-old Ella Wyllie, who can even be lining up within the highway race.
The mixed elite and U23 ladies’s highway race, with the U23 rainbow jersey awarded to the primary below 23 rider over the road, will once more be an occasion the place New Zealand enters with sturdy prospects. The 2022 U23 winner, Fisher-Black, has aged out of the class the place she gained a world title however to safe that rainbow jersey she came visiting the road twelfth total within the mixed race anyway. Her Girls’s WorldTour outcomes, which embrace a stage victory on the Tour de Suisse in June, have additionally lengthy made it clear how aggressive she is within the prime tier.
It would even be a workforce with a robust declare within the U23 class once more, as whereas some nations gained’t be slotting in any riders from that age bracket amongst their mixed elite/U23 quota, ladies’s biking in New Zealand is brimming with younger expertise and the nation has put ahead a workforce with a mean age of twenty-two years for the August 13 race.
The riders lining up for the 154.1km U23/elite ladies’s occasion ending on a metropolis circuit in Glasgow alongside Fisher-Black and Wyllie are Kim Cadzow, Mikayla Harvey, Ella Harris and Ally Wollaston. Wyllie, Cadzow and Wollaston have been all born after 2000, that means they’re eligible for the Underneath 23 class.
For the 168km males’s U23 highway race on Saturday August 12, the squad shall be made up of Lewis Bower, Logan Currie and Jack Drage. Currie, who’s the Oceania champion within the self-discipline, can even line up for the 36.2km U23 males’s time trial on Wednesday August 9. He got here fourth within the occasion in Wollongong.
Elite Males
Highway race
- George Bennett
- Patrick Bevin
- Ryan Christensen
- James Oram
- Laurence Pithie
- Corbin Sturdy
Time trial
- Finn Fisher-Black
- Tom Sexton
Elite/U23 ladies
Highway race
- Kim Cadzow
- Niamh Fisher-Black
- Ella Harris
- Mikayla Harvey
- Ally Wollaston
- Ella Wyllie
Time Trial
- Georgia Perry
- Georgia Williams
- Ella Wyllie
U23 males
Highway race
- Lewis Bower
- Logan Currie
- Jack Drage
Time trial
Junior males
Highway race
- Carter Guichard
- Eli Tregidga
- Finn Wilson
Time trial
- Noah Hollamby
- Elliot Robertson
Junior ladies
Highway race
- Maia Barclay
- Bonnie Rattray
- Georgia Simpson
- Ruby Spring
Time trial
- Maia Barclay
- Muireann Inexperienced
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