The template of Burgos BH It will have an important international character in 2024 thanks to the inclusion of New Zealanders Aaron Gate and George Jackson for next season, after the official confirmation made by the Burgos squad through its social networks.
Gate, who signed for one season, is a great specialist on the track, where he achieved many victories in the World Championships and on the road he stands out as a very versatile runner, able to excel in time trials, in the classics or in sprints.
He combines the training of road cycling and track cycling, and in velodromes he competes as a distance runner, where he won two World Championships: the omnium in 2013 and the scoring championship in 2023; and also competes in the team pursuit modality, where he has amassed a dozen medals in World Cup and Olympic events.
As a road cyclist, he is the current New Zealand time trial champion, a trial he has won twice (2021 and 2023), and also won the Oceania championship in 2022.
He also has the Tour of Greece on his track record in 2022 and came close in 2023, where he finished second, and his speed also enabled him to win the Commonwealth Games in 2020.
In the statements offered by Burgos BH, the Auckland team pointed out that it will be “a new challenge and a really exciting opportunity” while highlighting the “passion of Julio Andrés Izquierdo for cycling, who leads his team for 41 years.”
“Next year I will compete in my fourth Olympic Games in Paris and I will fight for the gold medal on the track,” said Gate, who was happy to have “a great road team, with an amazing racing program.” will help you have the “best chance of achieving that goal.
In its part, jacksonwho will race until 2025 in purple, is a young sprinter who rose to prominence at the end of the season, achieving five wins on the Asian circuit.
The one from Wellington joined Burgos BH after achieving five victories in less than a month – two stages and he was declared the final winner of the Tour of Lake Taihu, another stage in the Tour of Langkawi and a new victory in the Tour of Hainan -, results that show his potential as a sprinter, a facet he hopes to develop in the Burgos team.
This season he competed in the Nations Cup, winning medals in Jakarta and Cairo, as well as the World Championship, where he was fifth in the elimination.
“I am excited to join Burgos BH in 2024; this year is my first road season in Europe and I have learned a lot, but I think I still have a lot to learn and I know that Burgos BH is where I will continue to grow as a cyclist “, he said in the statements offered by Burgos BH.
Source: La Verdad
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