Cyclist Patrick Bevin will ride on WorldTour with Cannondale-Garmin
THE current leader of Cycling Australia’s National Road Series, Patrick Bevin, has signed a contract with American team Cannondale-Garmin to ride the WorldTour next year.
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THE current leader of Cycling Australia’s National Road Series, Patrick Bevin, has signed a contract with American team Cannondale-Garmin to ride the WorldTour next year.
Bevin, 24, won last week’s Tour of the Great South Coast which finished in Port Fairy and in February won the gruelling stage to Arthur’s Seat in the Herald Sun Tour.
Next year the New Zealander, who rides for the Avanti Racing Team, will be the latest from the squad to progress to the WorldTour, following in the footsteps of Richie Porte, Nathan Haas and Steele von Hoff.
Cannondale-Garmin boss Jonathan Vaughters said Bevin would be a “great addition” to the team.
“In Asia and Australia, Patrick has shown great diversity in skills from bunch sprints to climbing,” Vaughters said.
“He seems to have it all,”
Bevin said he was “delighted” to be joining the team where he will ride alongside Haas, who debuted in the Tour de France in July.
“To race at the WorldTour level is a big opportunity for me,” Bevin said in a team statement.
“I hope to play an important role in many team performances and victories over the coming seasons.”
Meanwhile, in local cycling news, Cycling SA will resurrect the Norton Summit time-trial and ‘Hell of the North’ road race on the Yorke Peninsula as part of its elite summer series.
The series will be rebranded the CIC Cervelo Super Series and consist of 10 rounds from November to January.
It will include eight criteriums at Victoria Park, Kadina and Mount Barker, the individual time trial up Norton Summit and a road race at Wallaroo.
There will also be a women’s teams series running largely in conjunction with the men’s program this season however the rounds and dates for that series are yet to be confirmed.
Cycling SA has already called for expressions of interest from teams wanting to register for the respective series this summer.
Originally published as Cyclist Patrick Bevin will ride on WorldTour with Cannondale-Garmin
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