It was a busy weekend in the Southern Hemisphere as many countries hosted their national championships and over in New Zealand it was Bolton Equities Black Spoke Pro Cycling's James Fouché taking the title, the second in his career.
The 23-year old won the race with 2:47 over his own teammate Tom Sexton and 2:54 over the peloton where Equipe continentale Groupama-FDJ's Laurence Pithie won the sprint and wrapped up the podium.
With the course having meaningful changes due to bad weather a mostly flat race ended up on the menu of the peloton, with Fouché an early escapee given that the Black Spoke team had several options. Fouché ended up benefiting from a bizarre situation where a tree fell down on course and caused the race to be neutralized. Upon restarting, the officials annouced the race would end in that lap and Fouché ended up confortably keeping his gap to take the national title.
Among the statements he gave post-race were comments on how exactly the situation affected the race: “It was one of the windiest days that I have ridden in. I nearly came off a couple of times. It was a savage day out,. We were told if the race was shortened then the first person across the line on that lap would win, so that was in the back of my mind."
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