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Corbin Strong
New Zealand cyclist (born 2000) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Corbin Strong (born 30 April 2000) is a New Zealand road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Israel–Premier Tech.[7] He won the points race and finished second in the team pursuit at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[8]
In 2018, Strong crashed into a stationary car while on a training ride, fracturing his T1 vertebra.[9]
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Career
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Early career
Strong started racing in 2019 with the St George Continental Cycling Team and achieved early success in Asian races.[10] He won the Under-23 competition in the Tour de Korea and Tour de Kumano plus the sprint jersey in the Tour de Ijen.[11]
He then spent two seasons with SEG Racing Academy,[12] where a COVID-19 stricken world saw him only compete at the New Zealand Cycle Classic, finishing on the podium with top 5 results in all stages and walking away with the white youth jersey.[13]
The following season Strong won the New Zealand Cycle Classic with the bonus seconds on the final stage pushing him into the lead.[14] It was announced in August 2021 that Strong would ride for UCI WorldTeam Israel Start-Up Nation for the following three seasons.[15]
Israel–Premier Tech (2022 to present)
2022
His first year of professional cycling started well with top 35 placings in all races he finished. A ninth place in Stage 7 of the Tour of Turkey placed him in 15th overall.[16] Strong took his first professional victory at the shortened Tour of Britain taking the first stage up a punchy slope ahead of Omar Fraile.[17]
2023
Strong went to the 2023 Tour de France as his team's nominated sprinter. He achieved two top ten finishes in bunch sprints most notably ninth in the final stage of the Tour on the Champs-Élysées.[18][19] Later in the season at the Tour de Luxembourg Strong took his only victory of the season. Winning the mass-sprint first stage to take the leaders jersey, he would lose it the following day.[20]
2024
Strong started his 2024 season at the Down Under Classic, a criterium that preludes the Tour Down Under, where he finished tenth.[21] At the Tour Down Under, Strong finished eighth on the opening stage and with bonus seconds was sitting fourth overall.[22] He moved up to second the following stage before dropping to third after stage four and ultimately retireing from the race on stage 5 due to illness.[23] Strong bounced back from illness to podium at the Surf Coast Classic five days later.[24]
His only victory of the season came at the 2.Pro rated Tour de Wallonie. Strong won Stage two of the tour in a mass bunch sprint moving him into the leaders jersey. He kept the leaders jersey for two more stages until the final stage where Matteo Trentin earned enough bonus seconds to pass Strong in the overall.[25] Strong competed in the individual road race at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He was New Zealand's best finisher placing 27 out of 90 who started the race.[26]
The 2024 Vuelta a España was Strong's second Grand Tour of his career where he achieved five top-6s in stages placing third twice.[27]
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Major results
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Road
- 2018
- 3rd Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge
- 2019
- 1st
Points classification, Tour de Ijen
- 4th Overall Tour de Kumano
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 5th Overall Tour de Korea
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 8th Overall Tour of Thailand
- 2020
- Tour of Southland
- 1st Stages 2 & 4
- 3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2021
- 1st
Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 1st
- 5th Gravel and Tar Classic
- 9th Omloop van Valkenswaard
- 2022 (1 pro win)
- 2nd Coppa Bernocchi
- 5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 6th Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 1
- 7th Gran Piemonte
- 2023 (1)
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg
- 2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 3rd Circuit Franco-Belge
- 4th Giro del Veneto
- 5th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 7th GP Miguel Induráin
- 9th La Drôme Classic
- 2024 (2)
- 1st Giro del Veneto
- 2nd Road race, National Championships
- 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Gran Piemonte
- 2nd Tour du Finistère
- 3rd Surf Coast Classic
- 4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 8th La Drôme Classic
- 10th Brabantse Pijl
- 2025
- 4th Surf Coast Classic
- 6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Track
- 2016
- Oceania Junior Championships
- 2017
- National Junior Championships
- 3rd
Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
- 3rd Madison, National Championships (with Josh Scott)
- 2018
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
- Oceania Junior Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit
- 1st
Omnium
- 1st
Madison (with George Jackson)
- 3rd
Points race
- 1st
- 2019
- 1st
Points race, Oceania Championships
- National Championships
- 1st
Points race
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 2nd Scratch
- 2nd Madison (with Dylan Kennett)
- 3rd Omnium
- 1st
- UCI World Cup
- 2020
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Points race
- 2nd
Team pursuit
- 1st
- National Championships
- 2021
- National Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 2nd Points race
- 3rd Madison (with Tom Sexton)
- 1st
- UCI Champions League
- 1st Elimination, Palma
- 1st Scratch, Palma
- 2nd Scratch, London
- 2022
- 1st
Scratch, Commonwealth Games
- 2nd
Elimination, UCI World Championships
- 2023
- 2nd Madison, National Championships (with George Jackson)
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