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Corbin Strong
Strong at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Personal information
Full nameCorbin John Strong[1]
Born (2000-04-30) 30 April 2000 (age 24)
Invercargill, New Zealand
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Team information
Current teamIsrael–Premier Tech
Disciplines
  • Track
  • Road
RoleRider
Rider typePuncheur
Professional teams
2019St George Continental Cycling Team
2020–2021SEG Racing Academy[3][4]
2022–Israel–Premier Tech[5][6]
Major wins
Road

One-day races and Classics

Giro del Veneto (2024)
Track
World Championships
Points race (2020)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  New Zealand
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Berlin Points race
Silver medal – second place 2020 Berlin Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Elimination
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Scratch

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]

Career

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Early career

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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)

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2022

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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

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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

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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]

Major results

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Sources:[28][29]

Road

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2018
3rd Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge
2019
1st Points classification, Tour de Ijen
4th Overall Tour de Kumano
1st Young rider classification
5th Overall Tour de Korea
1st Young rider classification
8th Overall Tour of Thailand
2020
Tour of Southland
1st Stages 2 & 4
3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Young rider classification
2021
1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
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 Overall Tour de Wallonie
1st Stage 2
2nd Road race, National Championships
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

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Grand Tour 2023 2024
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France 90 —
A red jersey Vuelta a España — DNF
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
IP Race in Progress

Track

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2016
Oceania Junior Championships
2nd Omnium
2nd Team pursuit
3rd Scratch
2017
National Junior Championships
1st Omnium
1st Points race
1st Team sprint
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Scratch
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
2019
1st Points race, Oceania Championships
National Championships
1st Points race
1st Team pursuit
2nd Scratch
2nd Madison (with Dylan Kennett)
3rd Omnium
UCI World Cup
2nd Team pursuit, Hong Kong
2nd Team pursuit, Brisbane
3rd Scratch, Hong Kong
2020
UCI World Championships
1st Points race
2nd Team pursuit
National Championships
1st Points race
1st Omnium
2021
National Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Points race
3rd Madison (with Tom Sexton)
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)

References

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  1. ^ "Corbin John STRONG". UCI. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Corbin Strong". Israel — Premier Tech Pro Cycling Team. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  3. ^ "SEG Racing Academy". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  4. ^ "SEG Racing Academy". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  5. ^ "ISRAEL - PREMIER TECH". UCI. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Corbin Strong". Israel — Premier Tech Pro Cycling Team. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Israel–Premier Tech". UCI. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  8. ^ "'I can't believe I pulled it off': Teenager Corbin Strong strikes gold at World Championships". Stuff. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Top young cyclist Corbin Strong fractures vertebra in collision with car". Stuff. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Corbin Strong in the form of his life". www.cyclingsouth.org.nz. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Southland Cyclist Corbin Strong Wins U23 Section In Japans UCI 2.2 Tour de Kumano". What's On Invers whatsoninvers.nz. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  12. ^ "Southlands Corbin Strong joins SEG Racing Academy". What's On Invers whatsoninvers.nz. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  13. ^ "Field claims title". Wairarapa Times-Age. 20 January 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  14. ^ "Corbin Strong wins NZ Cycle Classic". sportzhub.com. 17 January 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  15. ^ Haymes, Phoebe (9 August 2021). "Israel Start-Up Nation and talented Kiwi Corbin Strong join forces". Israel — Premier Tech Pro Cycling Team. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Tour of Turkey: Bevin wins stage 7 to take overall lead". cyclingnews.com. 16 April 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  17. ^ McGrath, Andy (7 September 2022). "Meet Corbin Strong, the surprise of the Tour of Britain". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  18. ^ "Key roles ahead for kiwis Smith and Strong in 2023 Tour de France". Cycling New Zealand. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  19. ^ Harding, Evan (25 July 2023). "Corbin Strong nails top 10 finish in final stage of Tour de France". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  20. ^ "Kiwi cyclist Corbin Strong wins in Europe". RNZ. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  21. ^ Giulian, Simone (13 January 2024). "Down Under Classic: Jhonatan Narvaez wins from the break". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  22. ^ Lamoureux, Lyne; published, Simone Giuliani (16 January 2024). "Tour Down Under: Sam Welsford holds off Phil Bauhaus to win stage 1". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  23. ^ Bull, Nick (17 January 2024). "Strong and Williams round out the podium on Tour Down Under stage two". Israel — Premier Tech Pro Cycling Team. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  24. ^ Haymes, Phoebe (25 January 2024). "Corbin Strong bounces back to round out Surf Coast Classic podium". Israel — Premier Tech Pro Cycling Team. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  25. ^ "Flawless Strong powers towards Paris road race". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  26. ^ Lindsay, Brayden (5 August 2024). "Southland's Corbin Strong ends Olympic road race in 27th place". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  27. ^ "Mixed feelings for Corbin Strong after La Vuelta podium: "If I had started the sprint in the wheel of Van Aert and Groves..."". CyclingUpToDate.com. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  28. ^ "Corbin Strong". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  29. ^ "Corbin Strong - FirstCycling.com". firstcycling.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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