A very strong campaigner on both road and track, with a very tidy turn of speed, Aaron Gate has now signed for Evo Pro Racing.
Evo Pro Racing has unveiled its latest signing; Kiwi Aaron Gate joining the new Continental level Irish team.
Now aged 28 years, Gate won a bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games. He also claimed bronze in the same event at the World Championships that year.
And a year later, in 2013, he won the gold medal in the omnium at the World Track Championships in Belarus.
Incredibly, all of his time riding on the road in the pro peloton has been spent with Irish teams.
Aaron Gate competed in the colours of An Post-Chainreaction from 2013 to 2016. He then went on to ride for Aqua Blue Sport this year and last.
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But with those two teams having closed, for now at any rate, Gate has now joined with new Irish team Evo Pro Racing.
He has taken three stage wins in the Rás Tailteann; two in 2015 and one a year later. Gate has also finished 5th overall in the Rás and 6th twice.
He is a rider with vast experience on the road and is a very solid signing for Evo Pro Racing; a man capable of winning UCI races next season.
Gate joins a number of the team’s 14-man roster already unveiled, with further names to follow in coming days.
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Also confirmed in the line-up so far is Australian Harry Sweeny and Irish riders Daire Feeley, Matt Teggart, Aaron Kearney and Cormac Mcgeough.
Kiwi Luke Mudgway is also confirmed as is Briton Daniel Whitehouse and Spanish rider Albert Muella Galvez.
Key people behind Evo Pro Racing launch
Former Irish national road race champion and ex-pro Morgan Fox is head sports director on Evo Pro Racing.
PJ Nolan, a former rider and one-time Cycling Ireland president, is general manager.
Matteo Cigala, a former Italian international now living and racing in Ireland, is a sports director with the team.
Cigala, who runs a coaching business in Ireland, also fills the role of head of athlete performance with Evo Pro Racing.
Jon Dam, an Australian who worked with the Interpro-Stradalli team this year, is also as a sports director with the new Evo Pro Racing.
Aaron Gate claiming stage 5 of the Rás into Ballina back in 2015; his second stage win on the race that week (Photo: Paul Mohan – Sportsfile)
Taking the SRAM Tour de Ranges in New Zealand in January, 2017; Aqua Blue Sport's first ever victory.
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