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Jai Hindley’s historic Giro d’Italia win has earned him the Australian bike owner of the yr award for the primary time.
The Grand Tour star was offered with the Sir Hubert Opperman trophy on Wednesday night time at an AusCycling digital occasion.
In Might, Hindley grew to become solely the second Australian to win a three-week Grand Tour when he took out the Giro.
The Bora-Hansgrohe rider additionally gained the essential ninth stage to the Blockhaus summit, a serious step in Hindley claiming the general title.
It got here 11 years after Cadel Evans’ historic Tour de France win.
The Giro, Tour and the Vuelta a Espana are biking’s three iconic Grand Excursions.
Aside from his Giro win, Hindley additionally completed 10th total on the Vuelta and was a member of the Australian workforce that helped Michael Matthews win bronze on this planet championships highway race at Wollongong.
The 26-year-old from Perth’s Midland Cycle Membership was fifth on the Tirreno Adriatico and seventh within the Vuelta a Burgos, two shorter stage races.
Hindley additionally took out the boys’s highway class, whereas time-trial star Grace Brown gained the ladies’s highway award.
Different class winners featured mountain biker Bec McConnell, Tokyo Olympics freestyle BMX gold medalist Logan Martin, the boys’s workforce dash world champions, observe endurance rider Georgia Baker and para bike owner Emily Petricola.
AUSTRALIAN CYCLIST OF THE YEAR AWARDS
Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy and highway class: Jai Hindley
Girls’s highway: Grace Brown
Observe: males’s workforce dash (Leigh Hoffman, Matthew Richardson, Matthew Glaetzer, Thomas Cornish) and Georgia Baker
mountain bike: Luke Meier-Smith and Bec McConnell
BMX freestyle: Logan Martin and Sarah Nicki
BMX Racing: Isaac Kennedy and Lauren Reynolds
For highway: Darren Hicks and Carol Cooke
To trace: Alistair Donohue and Emily Petricola.
-AAP
