Six months ago, New Zealand’s Nate Pringle wasn’t even registered with a UCI team. On Monday, he stood on the podium at his first World Championships, runner-up in the under-23 time trial, sandwiched between some of the best under-23 riders in the world.
The 21-year-old joined Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe Rookies in March of this year, after mainly racing in New Zealand and Australia with the Oxford Edge Cycling Team, though he got his first taste of racing in Belgium last summer.
However, he didn’t race a UCI event in Europe for the first time until this April, when – after emailing the team, he told Cyclingnews earlier this year – he secured a spot on Red Bull’s development team.
To come away with second is a huge achievement, and it was clear in his post-race press conference – where he kept his answers very short – that the significance had not really sunk in yet for the rider who’s never even raced a World Championships before.
Pringle ages out of the under-23 category at the end of this year, and hasn’t yet confirmed a contract for 2026 – he doesn’t seem to be among the ‘Rookies’ stepping up to Red Bull’s WorldTour team – but his performance in Kigali will surely have caught some attention.
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