Jai Hindley has won cycling’s second-biggest event, taking home the coveted pink jersey
The 26-year-old Australian won the Giro D’Italia at the weekend. He beat Ecuador’sRichard Carapaz by 1:18 minutes.
After a tough 2021 season, Hindley switched teams from Sunweb to a newly focused Bora Hansgrohe team, which he says was like “pressing the reset button”.
“I had a lot of things going [on] which made it a super hard year and a difficult period.”
JAI HINDLEY
Hindley becomes is the second Australian to win a Grand Tours Major Cycling Event, after Cadel Evans claimed the Tour De France in 2011.
“It was really frustrating because I finished 2020 with second place at the Giro and then I had really high expectations coming into 2021.”
“I wanted to prove to people, and more so myself, that I was capable of riding at that level and that 2020 wasn’t just a fluke,” Hindley says.
