 Pithie at the 2019 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (2002-07-17) 17 July 2002 (age 22) Christchurch, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Groupama–FDJ | |||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2020 | Willebrord Wil Vooruit Juniors | |||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Groupama–FDJ Continental Team | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Groupama–FDJ | |||||||||||||||||
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| One-day races and Classics | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Laurence Pithie (born 17 July 2002) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ.
Pithie attended Christchurch Boys' High School from 2016 to 2020.
Career
As a 17-year-old Pithie won two gold medals at the UCI Junior World Championships in the Madison and Omnium. In 2019 Pithie won the national criterium champs allowing him to wear the national jersey in all criteriums for that year. Pithie started the 2021 season off with top 10's in the sprint stages at the New Zealand Cycle Classic. Then fourth in Slovenia after leading out teammate Marijn van den Berg to victory. He finally nabbed a podium in the Circuit de Wallonie behind winner Christophe Laporte. He held his form to the Tour de la Mirabelle where a second place in the reduced bunch finish of Stage 2 brought him to seventh overall. Pithie's greatest accomplishment came at the Baltic Chain Tour where he finished 2nd in every stage which allowed him to win Overall.
Major results
Road
- 2019
- 1st
Criterium, National Championships - 2nd
Time trial, Oceania Junior Championships - 2021
- 1st
Overall Baltic Chain Tour
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Youth classification
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) New Zealand Cycle Classic
- 3rd Circuit de Wallonie
- 4th GP Adria Mobil
- 7th Overall Tour de la Mirabelle
- 2022
- National Championships
- 1st Under-23 Road race
- 2nd Under-23 Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 1st
- 1st Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Normandie
- 3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
- 1st Youth classification
- 1st
- 3rd Gran Premio Sportivi di Poggiana
- 8th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
- 10th Paris–Troyes
- 2023 (1 pro win)
- 1st Cholet-Pays de la Loire
- 2nd Classic Loire Atlantique
- 5th Hamburg Cyclassics
- 5th Circuit de Wallonie
- 5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 8th Nokere Koerse
- 2024 (1)
- 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- National Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 5th Surf Coast Classic
- 7th Paris–Roubaix
- 8th Le Samyn
- 10th Grand Prix de Fourmies
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2024 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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103 |
| Tour de France
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 Vuelta a España
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| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
Track
- 2019
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 1st
Omnium - 1st Madison (with Kiaan Watts)
- 1st
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 3rd Kiko
- 1st
- 1st
Individual pursuit, Oceania Junior Championships - 2020
- National Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison (with Thomas Sexton)
- 1st
References
- ^ "Laurence Pithie". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "Talented teenage riders sign for Groupama-FDJ". Cycling New Zealand. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "GROUPAMA – FDJ 2021". UCI. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "GROUPAMA – FDJ 2022". UCI. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- "Hard work and resilience paying off for Laurence Pithie". College Sport Media. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "Kiwi dual gold medallist Laurence Pithie turns heads at world junior track cycling championships". Stuff. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "Vantage Criterium National Championships" (PDF). cyclingnewzealand.nz. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "Kiwi teen cyclist Laurence Pithie gains first podium in Europe". NZ Sports Wire. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "New-Zealand cyclist wins Baltic Chain Tour, Karl Patrick Lauk second". ERR. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
External links
- Laurence Pithie at UCI
- Laurence Pithie at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Laurence Pithie at ProCyclingStats
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