By milatin.com3 Mins Read
Cross-Nation Mountain Bike world champion Alan Hatherly will mix WorldTour highway racing along with his off-road calendar in 2025 after signing a two-year contract with Jayco AlUla.
The South African loved the very best 12 months of his profession in 2024, taking the world title in Pal Arinsal after already netting a bronze medal on the Paris Olympics, the primary medal of any color for a non-European within the self-discipline.
Hatherly has restricted expertise on the highway however has proven that he can translate his off-road talents over to the tarmac with second within the South African nationwide time trial championships this previous season behind solely Ryan Gibbons (Lidl-Trek).
“I’m extremely excited for this new chapter in my biking profession and really grateful for the chance to trip for GreenEDGE Biking for the following two seasons,” stated Hatherly in a press release.
“I feel now’s the right second for me to get out of my consolation zone and develop even additional. Transferring to a WorldTour highway staff is in fact one thing completely new for me, will probably be a steep studying curve, and I might be studying from the very best.”
The 28-year-old obtained to debut his rainbow jersey on the again finish of the season and capped off the 12 months with victory within the Mont-Saint Anne XCO race and with it the general UCI MTB Cross-Nation World Cup title.
Hatherly rode for Cannondale Manufacturing unit Racing in 2024 however along with his transfer to Jayco AlUa, will now transition to the staff of the WorldTour squad’s bike producer – Large Manufacturing unit Racing.
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“In fact, Hatherly is the present MTB world champion and can proceed to have a spotlight on this area, because of the help from Large,” stated staff supervisor Brent Copeland.
“We hope collectively we are able to obtain nice issues in MTB and on the highway, he will definitely have lots of skilled teammates and workers to study from.”
He’ll be a part of the checklist of multi-discipline riders competing in elite MTB and highway competitions in 2025, alongside the likes of Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), Samuel Gaze (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) and the Holmgren twins Ava and Isabella (Lidl-Trek).
“Alan has clearly had a breakthrough season within the MTB self-discipline, and it demonstrates that he has much more to offer,” continued Copeland.
“We’re thrilled to have the ability to work with such a gifted rider and imagine that our robust help community throughout the WorldTeam set-up is one thing that Hatherly will vastly profit from. He has lots of expertise and clearly lots of potential and we imagine he can go far on the highway.”
Hatherly is the Australian facet’s ninth new signing for 2025, with Ben O’Connor,
Koen Bouwman, Jasha Sütterlin, Paul Double, Jelte Krijnsen, Patrick Gamper, Asbjørn Hellemose and Bob Donaldson additionally incoming, which brings Jayco AlUla’s roster as much as the utmost variety of 30 riders.
