Fouché at the 2019 Tour of Britain | |
Personal information | |
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Born | Christchurch, New Zealand | 28 March 1998
Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Euskaltel–Euskadi |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur team | |
2013–2016 | SBS Ricoh NZ |
Professional teams | |
2018–2019 | WIGGINS |
2019 | Mitchelton–Scott (stagiaire) [1] |
2020 | Hagens Berman Axeon [2] |
2021–2023 | Black Spoke Pro Cycling [3] [4] |
2024– | Euskaltel–Euskadi |
Major wins | |
One-day races and Classics
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James Fouché (born 28 March 1998) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Euskaltel–Euskadi. [5] In 2019 Fouche won the combined under-23 and elite New Zealand National Road Race Championships.
Fouché starting road cycling in his youth. He won the Under 19 New Zealand national time trial championships in 2016 [6] after coming second in 2015. [7]
At the New Zealand National Road Race Championships in 2019, Fouché attacked with 40 km to go. The bunch behind could not work well together so his lead grew. He managed to hold them off to win the combined Under-23 and Elite titles. [8] [9] Fouché crashed out of the winning move in the Ronde van Vlaanderen U23. [8]
From August 2019 he rode as a Stagaire for Mitchelton–Scott, experiencing racing at a higher level. [10]
2022 for Fouché started with the New Zealand national road championships. He didn't place in the Criterium but came fourth in the time trial. In the Road race Fouché attacked on the second lap going clear from the peloton, due to Cyclone Dovi the race length was shortened and the peloton was unable to catch Fouché resukling in him taking his second National Road race victory. [11] In April he rode the Oceania Cycling Championships where he won the road race in the final sprint. [12]
His Bolton Equities Black Spoke became a UCI ProTeam for the 2023 season allowing access to more races. [13]
At the UCI ProSeries race the Tour of Britain Fouché was in the breakaway for four of the seven stages. In the process of doing so he gained the most points in the King of the Mountains classification to win the Black jersey overall. [14] [15]
Fouché was the final rider added to Euskaltel–Euskadi's roster for the 2024 season after signing a one-year contract. [16] [17]
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