Upcoming races will prove if Alan Hatherly is a dark horse for Strade Bianche & Flèche
The South African is back in Europe and ready for another block of road racing 🇿🇦
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Alan Hatherly kicked started his WorldTour road racing career with a highly creditable sixth place in the AlUla Tour.
Had it not been for an untimely puncture on the final stage, the South African would have likely picked up a podium place, and his impressive start to the season has those within Jayco AlUla wondering if the South African could be a factor in Strade Bianche and La Flèche Wallonne.
It’s, of course, early days, but the next few weeks will see the mountain bike world champion test his mettle in a series of week-long stage races. His team have confirmed that the 28-year-old will race the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol and Coppi e Bartali, along with pitstops at Strade Bianche and Trofeo Laigueglia, before the Basque Country and then a tilt at the Ardennes.
“He deserved to be on the podium in AlUla,” Director of High Performance and Racing Matt White told us on Friday - the same day that Hatherly returned from South Africa, where he recently won the national TT title.