Laurence Pithie

Laurence Pithie is a New Zealand road cyclist who rides for Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe and is listed as a classics specialist. He was born in Christchurch on 17 July 2002 and attended Christchurch Boys’ High School.

Pithie began on the track. At the 2019 junior world championships he won the omnium and the madison, the latter with Kiaan Watts, and the same year he took the New Zealand criterium title. In 2021 he joined the Groupama–FDJ continental team and won the Baltic Chain Tour overall. In 2022 he won the Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies and a stage of the Tour de Normandie. He moved up to the Groupama–FDJ WorldTeam in 2023 and won Cholet–Pays de la Loire in March.

In January 2024 he won the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, a WorldTour one-day race in Australia, and in the spring he was seventh at Paris–Roubaix. He rode the 2024 Giro d’Italia and represented New Zealand at the Paris Olympics, in the time trial and the road race. In August 2024 Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe announced that he would join on a three-year contract from 2025. That year he was third at the Great Ocean Road Race and rode his first Tour de France as the only New Zealander in the race, finishing 89th overall as a support rider for Primož Roglič.

Wikipedia counts six wins for Pithie in 2026. In May he won Rund um Köln on the 17th and then the Four Days of Dunkirk, taking stage 1 and the overall, points and young rider classifications. In June he won stage 3 of the Tour de Wallonie, finishing fourth overall and winning the young rider classification, and he won stages 1 and 3 and the points classification at the Tour of Slovenia. Earlier in the season he had been second on stage 2 of Paris–Nice, fifth at Dwars door Vlaanderen and sixth at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. Later in the year he was third at the Hamburg Cyclassics on 16 August and second at the Flandrien 0.0 Classic on 19 September.