Cross-Country Mountain Bike world champion Alan Hatherly will combine WorldTour road racing with his off-road calendar in 2025 after signing a two-year contract with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jayco AlUla.
The South African enjoyed the best year of his career in 2024, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:taking the world title in Pal Ar💞insal after already netting a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:bronze medal at the Paris Olympics, the first medal of any colo𝔍ur for a non-European in the discipliꦍne.
Hatherly has limited experience on the road but has 🎐shown that he can translate his off-road abilities over to the tarmac with second in the South African national time trial championships this past season behind only Ryan Gibbons (Lidl-Trek📖).
“I am incredib﷽ly excited for this new chapter in my cycling career and very grateful for the opportunity to ride for GreenEDGE Cycling for the next two seasons," said Hatherly in a
"I think now is the perfect moment for me to get out of my comfort zone and develop even further. Moving to a WorldTour road team♉ is of course something totally new for me, it will be a steep 🅰learning curve, and I will be learning from the best."
The 28-year-old got to debut his rainbow jersey at the back end of the season and capped off the year with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:victory in the Mont-Saint Anne XCO race and with it the ovꦯerall UCI MTB Cross-Co🌃untry World Cup title.
Hatherly rode for Cannondale Fact♛ory Racing in 2024 but with his move to Jayco AlUa, will now transition to the team of the WorldTour squad's bike manufacturer - Giant Factory Racing.
"Of course, Hatherly is the current MTB world champion and will continue to have a focus in ꧂this field, thanks to the support from Giant," said team manager Brent Copeland.
"We hope together we can achieve great things in MTꦡB and on the road, he will certainly haveಞ a lot of experienced teammates and staff to learn from.”
He'll join the list of multi-discipline riders competing in elite MTB and road competitions in 2025, alongside the likes of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), S🐠amuel Gaze (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) aꦅnd the Holmgren twins Ava and Isabella (Lidl-Trek).
"Alan has clearly had a breakthrough season in the MTB discipline, and it demons🌠trates that he has a lot more to give," continued Copeland.
"We are thrilled to be able to work with such a talented rider and believe that our strong support network within the WorldTeam set-up is someth꧟ing that Hatherly will greatly benefit from. He has a lot of talent and clearly a lot of potential and we believe he can go far on th🔯e road."
Hatherly is the Australian side's ninth new signing for 2025, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ben O'Connor,
Koen Bouwman, Jasha Sütterlin, Paul Double, Jelte Krijnsen, Patrick Gamper, As🃏bjørn Hellemose and Bob Donaldson also incoming, which brings Jayco A🐎lUla's roster up to the maximum number of 30 riders.
