2018 Vuelta a España champion and two-time Tour de France stage winner Simon Yates will remain at Mitchelton-SCOTT having agreed to a contract extension that will see him race with the team until the end of 2022.
News: Simon Yates stays with Mitchelton-SCOTT
2018 Vuelta a España champion and two-time Tour de France stage winner Simon Yates will remain at Mitchelton-SCOTT having agreed to a contract extension that will see him race with the team until the end of 2022.
The news comes after team owner Gerry Ryan, who has supported the organisation since its inception in 2012, confirmed his commitment to the team for another two years as it continues to compete at the highest level in the UCI WorldTour.
Yates joined Mitchelton-SCOTT as a neo-pro in 2014. Since then, the Briton has taken 17 professional victories, including stages at all three Grand Tours, and has developed into one of the world’s top climbers, winning the 2018 Vuelta a España and finishing in the top-10 at the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
As the team’s most successful general classification rider, he was a high-priority re-signing. The new agreement will take the 28-year-old’s tenure with the Australian outfit to nine years.
Yates, who began his 2020 campaign in Australia in January, re-started his season at the Vuelta a Burgos and Tour of Poland, where he podiumed overall, and will now build towards a third consecutive attempt at glory at the Giro d’Italia.
Simon Yates: “The journey with the team has been great so far, I have grown and matured as a person and as a rider. We’ve had a lot of success and a lot of failures along the way, but I’m looking forward to continuing the journey together and looking for more success as always.
“The team know me as a rider, the way I work and I’m very comfortable in the environment which goes a long way once we’re on the road racing. You really need that in a team. Once we’re two or three weeks into a Grand Tour it’s very stressful and very tiring, not just for me, but for the whole organisation, so being comfortable with each other is very important.
“We have had a lot of success together, and I just want to continue that going forward, mainly at the Grand Tours. We won our first Grand Tour two years ago and I truly believe we can do it again so we will keep working hard so we can take another one.”
Simon Yates
Date of birth: 7th August 1992 (28)
Nationality: Great Britain
Joined Mitchelton-SCOTT: 2014
New contract: 2021-2022
Top results with Mitchelton-SCOTT:
2018 Vuelta a España – Overall
2 x Tour de France Stage Victories (2019)
3 x Giro d’Italia Stage Victories (2018)
2 x Vuelta a España Stage Victories (2018, 2016)
13 days in the Maglia Rosa at the Giro d’Italia (2018)
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