Pogacar became the youngest rider to win the Tour de France in 116 years last year and the 22-year-old backed it up with a dominant display to become the youngest double winner in Tour history this month. “One of the big things is that if you look at Pogacar and how young he is and how they’ve developed him from almost the same background as me in terms of racing, we both kind of did the same races in under-23, it really shows the development through UAE, and for sure it’s really motivating to think that I can be of help to Tadej in the next couple of years,” Fisher-Black said.
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13 February, 2021, 6:40 am
Finn Fisher-Black went quicker than the elite men s riders over the 44km course in Cambridge (File photo).
Jumbo-Visma development rider Finn Fisher-Black produced the fastest ride of the day to win the under-23 men’s time trial at the New Zealand championships in Cambridge on Friday.
He was even quicker than elite men’s winner, Tokyo-bound track cyclist Aaron Gate, who hung on to edge a fast-finishing Jumbo-Visma star George Bennett by just 0.7 seconds over the rolling 44 kilometre course.
The 19-year-old Fisher-Black highlighted his enormous potential by posting a time of 54 min 7.54 sec, which was 9.22 seconds faster than Gate over the same course.
Aaron Gate finishes ahead of Luke Mudgway to win the 2021 Gravel and Tar Classic.
It may have been a far cry from the smooth surfaces of an Olympic track or a United States road, but Aaron Gate and Olivia Ray still reigned supreme at the Gravel and Tar Classic in Manawatū on Saturday. The duo – both winners of November’s criterium national champs in Christchurch – added to their resumes in taking out the UCI 1.2 event from Feilding to Palmerston North which features five gravel sectors of about 40km and is considered the hardest single-day road race in Oceania. In a star-studded 164km men’s race, it was Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy rider Gate who outgunned team-mate Luke Mudgway in a two-man sprint to the finish.