A win is a win, as they say, and despite the circumstances that led to Caleb Ewan (Orica-BikeExchange) winning the Cyclassic Hamburg, the Australian is brimming with confidence after a long spell without a victory.
The 22-year-old sprinter went almost seven months without a win between the end of January and late August and, despite several second and third places in the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Yorkshire and Tour de Pologne, Hamburg was his first taste of success outside of Australia since last year's Vuelta a España.
With an important block of racing ahead and the World Championships in Qatar on the distant horizon, Ewan is looking to build on his success in Germany at the Tour of Britain.
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"Hamburg was the first of a big block that I've got coming up. There's Tour of Britain now and then Eneco, maybe Paris-Tours and then Worlds. The main thing going into this block is having confidence. After not winning for a while the confidence gets battered a little and to be a sprinter the main thing that you need is confidence. That will help me a lot going into the next few races," Ewan tells Cyclingnews on the eve of the Tour of Britain.
Despite his young age, Ewan is no stranger to racing in the United Kingdom. He was part of the Australian team at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and raced the Tour of Yorkshire earlier this season. That experience will be crucial if he is to beat the likes of Mark Cavendish and Andre Greipel in the sprint stages this week. Not being a favourite suits Ewan, however, and he admits that the role of the underdog is one that he enjoys.
"It's going to be super tough," he says of the week ahead.
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