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 most effective yr 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 journey for GreenEDGE Biking for the subsequent two seasons,” mentioned Hatherly in a press launch.
“I believe now’s the proper 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 will probably be studying from the most effective.”
The 28-year-old obtained to debut his rainbow jersey on the again finish of the season and capped off the yr 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 facility 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 facility Racing.
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“After all, Hatherly is the present MTB world champion and can proceed to have a spotlight on this subject, due to the assist from Large,” mentioned staff supervisor Brent Copeland.
“We hope collectively we will obtain nice issues in MTB and on the highway, he will definitely have plenty of skilled teammates and workers to be taught from.”
He’ll be part of the listing 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 proficient rider and imagine that our robust assist community inside the WorldTeam set-up is one thing that Hatherly will enormously profit from. He has plenty of expertise and clearly plenty of potential and we imagine he can go far on the highway.”
Hatherly is the Australian aspect’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.
