Ben Wiggins (19) has been playing his trade on the road this season with Hagens Berman Jayco as well as competing for Great Britain on the track and road. But now he has gotten a call-up to World Tour road racing action in just his first season out of the juniors.
Wiggins, the son of 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins, is set to ride CRO Race for the Team Jayco Alula as a stagiaire; an end of season trial for young riders hoping to make it in the pro game.
He is benefiting from the relationship with his Continental team, owned by Axel Merckx, and Team Jayco Alula, which is sponsoring the development squad as part of a wider new relationship.
The new link, announced earlier this year, will allow the young Hagens Berman Jayco to step up to its World Tour sister team, and hopefully secure long-term contracts with it.
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Wiggins won Trophée Centre Morbihan (2.Ncup) as a junior last year and has gained selection of Great Britain on the road this year, competing in the Tour of Britain in the national colours and also riding the U23 TT at the Worlds last week, finishing 18th.
Last year he took silver in the junior TT at the UCI World Road Championships in Scotland and then won the madison with another rising star of British cycling, Matthew Brennan, at the World Junior Track Championships in Cali, Colombia.
Wiggins will ride CRO Race, a six-stage UCI 2.1-ranked event starting today, Tuesday, alongside Campbell Stewart, Blake Quick, Michael Hepburn, Lucas Hamilton, Anders Foldager and Lawson Craddock.
There will also be Irish interest in the race with Ryan Mullen the sole starter as he joins the Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe lead-out effort for team sprinter Sam Welsford.
