Jay McCarthy

Jay McCarthy
	Jay McCarthy (2017)
To person
Date of birth	September 8, 1992
nation	Australia
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Bora-hansgrohe
function	driver
Most important successes
	Overall classification New Zealand Cycle Classic 2012 ; one stage Tour Down Under 2016
	Last updated: November 18, 2018

Jay McCarthy (born September 8, 1992 in Maryborough , Queensland ) is an Australian cyclist . McCarthy is a multiple medalist at Australian championships in various age groups.

Career

As a junior rider, McCarthy finished seventh in road racing at the 2009 World Championships . In 2010 he became Australian junior road racing champion, won silver in the individual time trial and bronze in the criterion . At the 2010 World Championships , he finished second in the road race. During the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore , he won the silver medal in the individual time trial.

In the individual time trial at the Grand Départ in Düsseldorf 2017

For the 2011 season McCarthy received a contract as a U23 driver with the Australian Continental team Jayco-AIS . He finished third in the Australian U23 time trial championship and won a stage of the Tour of Thuringia , which he finished fourth overall. In 2012, after a successful breakaway attempt on the second section, he won his first international stage race with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and his first international one-day race with the Trofeo Piva Banca Popolare . He also won a stage each at Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo-Coppa delle Nazioni , the Tour de Bretagne and the prologue of the Tour de l'Avenir . In the individual classification of the UCI Oceania Tour 2012 he was third.

In 2013 he joined the UCI ProTeam Team Saxo-Tinkoff , for which he contested his first Grand Tour with the Giro d'Italia 2014 and finished in 91st place overall. At the Tour Down Under 2016 , he scored his first victory in a UCI WorldTour race in a sprint on an uphill straight , which also gave him the overall lead of the race for one day. In January 2018, he became the first Australian to win the domestic Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race .