Laurence Pithie

Laurence Pithie
Pithie at 2026 Tour of Slovenia
Personal information
Born (2002-07-17) 17 July 2002
Christchurch, New Zealand
Height187 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight74 kg (163 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamRed Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Amateur team
2020Willebrord Wil Vooruit Juniors
Professional teams
2021–2022Équipe Continentale Groupama–FDJ[2][3][4]
2023–2024Groupama–FDJ[5]
2025–Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe
Major wins
Stage races
Four Days of Dunkirk (2026)

One-day races and Classics

Great Ocean Road Race (2024)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  New Zealand
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 FrankfurtOmnium
Gold medal – first place2019 FrankfurtMadison

Laurence Pithie (born 17 July 2002) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.[6]

Pithie attended Christchurch Boys' High School from 2016 to 2020.[7]

Pithie at Rund um Köln 2026

Career

As a 17-year-old Pithie won two gold medals at the UCI Junior World Championships in the Madison and Omnium.[8] In 2019 Pithie won the national criterium champs allowing him to wear the national jersey in all criteriums for that year.[9] Pithie started the 2021 season off with top 10's in the sprint stages at the New Zealand Cycle Classic. Then fourth in Slovenia after leading out teammate Marijn van den Berg to victory. He finally nabbed a podium in the Circuit de Wallonie behind winner Christophe Laporte.[10] He held his form to the Tour de la Mirabelle where a second place in the reduced bunch finish of Stage 2 brought him to seventh overall. Pithie's greatest accomplishment came at the Baltic Chain Tour where he finished 2nd in every stage which allowed him to win Overall.[11]

In 2025, Pithie is to make his Tour de France debut as the only New Zealand rider in the race, with his role being a domestique and protector for Primoz Roglic.[12]

Pithie won Four days of Dunkirk in 2026. He won the opening stage He then came fifth, second, seventh and 45th in the following four stages. The final stage was challenging as he was involved in a crash early in the stage, he then had a puncture and needed to change his bike in the last five kilometres and being caught up behind a crash in the finale. Pithie said of the final stage: “I flatted with 5 kilometres to go, so switched bikes with Callum [Thornley]. That was great because I could make it back into the peloton. I tried to come to the front with my team, but a crash in the final kilometre, it was really close to taking me down,"[13]

Major results

Road

2019
1st Criterium, National Championships
2nd Time trial, Oceania Junior Championships
2021
1st Overall Baltic Chain Tour
1st Points classification
1st Youth classification
1st Stage 1 (TTT) New Zealand Cycle Classic
3rd Circuit de Wallonie
4th GP Adria Mobil
7th Overall Tour de la Mirabelle
2022
National Championships
1st Under-23 Road race
2nd Under-23 Time trial
3rd Road race
1st Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
1st Stage 3 Tour de Normandie
3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Youth classification
3rd Gran Premio Sportivi di Poggiana
8th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
10th Paris–Troyes
2023 (1 pro win)
1st Cholet-Pays de la Loire
2nd Classic Loire Atlantique
5th Hamburg Cyclassics
5th Circuit de Wallonie
5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
8th Nokere Koerse
2024 (1)
1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
National Championships
3rd Road race
3rd Time trial
5th Surf Coast Classic
7th Paris–Roubaix
8th Le Samyn
10th Grand Prix de Fourmies
2025
3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
5th Time trial, National Championships
2026 (6)
1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Points classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1
1st Rund um Köln
Tour of Slovenia
1st Points classification
1st Stages 1 & 3
3rd Hamburg Cyclassics
4th Overall Tour de Wallonie
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
5th Dwars door Vlaanderen
6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2024 2025
Giro d'Italia 103 —
Tour de France — 89
Vuelta a España — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

2019
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Omnium
1st Madison (with Kiaan Watts)
National Junior Championships
1st Omnium
3rd Team pursuit
3rd Kiko
1st Individual pursuit, Oceania Junior Championships
2020
National Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Madison (with Thomas Sexton)

References

  1. 1 2 "Laurence Pithie". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Talented teenage riders sign for Groupama-FDJ". Cycling New Zealand. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "GROUPAMA – FDJ 2021". UCI. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "GROUPAMA – FDJ 2022". UCI. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE". UCI.org. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Hard work and resilience paying off for Laurence Pithie". College Sport Media. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "Kiwi dual gold medallist Laurence Pithie turns heads at world junior track cycling championships". Stuff. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  9. ↑ "Vantage Criterium National Championships" (PDF). cyclingnewzealand.nz. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  10. ↑ "Kiwi teen cyclist Laurence Pithie gains first podium in Europe". NZ Sports Wire. 14 May 2021. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  11. ↑ "New-Zealand cyclist wins Baltic Chain Tour, Karl Patrick Lauk second". ERR. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  12. ↑ "NZ's Laurence Pithie to make Tour de France debut". RNZ. 3 July 2025. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  13. ↑ lead-out, Lyne Lamoureux Danny van Poppel holds on for second after; Dunkerque, Gianluca Pollefliet is third in (24 May 2026). "4 Jours de Dunkerque: Laurence Pithie secures overall as teammate Jordi Meeus sprints to victory on stage 5". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
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