Kate, New Zealand champion

Burgos BH will wear a new unique national champion jersey In the next matches. Aaron Gate Continues to show unbeatable performance and won the long distance test this morning New Zealand Championship. The elder Bistard soon launched an attack in the first cuts that chose the race and was the strongest of the runners who played for victory in the sprint, defeating many competitors from the world teams. After wins at the New Zealand Classic and the Adelaide Nations Cup, Burgos PH added their second win of the season and Kate’s seventh win of the year.

The New Zealand Championship was held over a total distance of 196 kilometers around Timaru. The attacks of the main favorites did not wait Aaron Gate left in the second race group, who was running a minute behind the leaders. His teammate in the platoon, George Jackson, was waiting for the opportunity. The Gate team managed to contact the fugitives, however, on the last lap, there were fresh attacks and the chase continued.

Six kilometers from the finish line, on the last climb of the day, the two groups came together again, leading to a final sprint between the race’s seven strongest. Under heavy rain, Kate showed all her speed to take the win. The New Zealander, the national time trial champion in 2021 and 2023, adds the national road title to his record. After this success, Burgos BH will have the reigning national champions of New Zealand in their squad, Mongolia (Jumbaljumts Sinefire) and Greece (Georgios Boucles).

Aaron Gate: “I did everything I could. I was aggressive from the start. I knew other runners would be waiting for the right moment to attack, nervous about the long course. You can’t let races like this get away from you and end before you start. With that in mind, I did my best from the start. I was in every movement except the one that seemed to have escaped us. However, with a good group of six runners, a group of ten made up the right moves and not to let the numerical superiority of the World Tour riders beat us. . “I didn’t want to risk it all in the sprint, but the attacks didn’t work, so I had to do it right in the last corner.”

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