Promising young British rider Hugh Carthy has signed for Cannondale-Drapac for 2017. The deal with the 22-year-old is for two years.
Carthy, currently racing for Spanish Pro Continental squad Caja Rural-Seguros RGA where he has made a promising name for himself, is now set to make a move into the UCI WorldTour league with the American team.
Carthy is be the first Briton on Cannondale-Drapac since David Millar's final year with the then Garmin team back in 2014.
ADVERTISEMENT
Currently racing in the Vuelta a Burgos, where he finished in the main peloton on the first stage in a bunch sprint won by Danny Van Poppel (Sky) this year Carthy has taken an impressive series of wins and placings for such a young pro.
This include Britain's first ever overall victory in the Vuelta a Asturias stage race in Spain, and top ten placings in the Vuelta a Madrid and GP Miguel Indurain Classic. Carthy also showed strong climbing talent when he finished ninth overall in the very mountainous Volta a Catalunya this spring, taking the Best Young Rider award ahead of his future Cannondale-Drapac teammate Davide Formolo.
"He's got a lot going for him," Cannondale-Drapac team manager Jonathan Vaughters told Cyclingnews. "He's young but has already shown a heck of a lot of promise in races like Asturias and the Route du Sud, where he would have been on the final podium but for a last-minute crash, and in Catalunya he was battling against some real heavyweights like [Alberto] Contador (Tinkoff), [Nairo] Quintana (Movistar) and [Chris] Froome (Team Sky and held his own." In the final overall result, Quintana won overall ahead of Contador, whilst Froome was eighth, just ahead of Carthy.
You can read more at Cyclingnews.com
via Cyclingnews Latest News http://ift.tt/2aw2pj3
No comments:
Post a Comment