One of the great late-blooming stories of the peloton: a decorated track world champion who ground through Irish and Kiwi continental teams before Burgos-BH and then XDS Astana finally gave him a WorldTour home in his mid-thirties. Since arriving he has won the Boucles de la Mayenne and become the team's Swiss-army knife. At 35, Barcelona's opening team time trial gave the four-time Commonwealth champion a dream opening stage in his first-ever Tour de France.
Palmarès
- 4x Commonwealth Games gold incl. road race (2022)
- Track world champion — omnium (2013), points race (2023)
- Olympic bronze, team pursuit (London 2012)
- New Zealand road race champion (2024)
- Boucles de la Mayenne GC winner (2025)
- Tour of Hainan GC winner (2024)
Fig. noteHe is making his Tour de France debut at 35 — and the opening team time trial put the ex-team-pursuit world medallist's engine to work from day one.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Sergio Higuita, Davide Ballerini, Max Kanter, Harold Tejada, Mike Teunissen, Simone Velasco, Nicolas Vinokurov — see the full XDS Astana team page.
Portrait render pending; source reference: Wikimedia Commons, author: Nicola, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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