Shane Archbold

Shane Archbold
	Shane Archbold (2019)
To person
Nickname	The Flying Mullet
Date of birth	February 2, 1989
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Road / rail (endurance)
height	182 cm
Racing weight	80 kg
To the team
Current team	Deceuninck-Quick-Step
function	driver
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2011 - Omnium Commonwealth Games 2014 - Scratch Oceania Championships 2010, 2011 - Omnium
	Last updated: February 16, 2020

Archbold on the Tour of Britain 2013

Shane Archbold (born February 2, 1989 in Timaru ) is a New Zealand cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2005 Shane Archbold was New Zealand junior champion in road racing, the following year in Ghent vice world champion in junior team pursuit , together with Jesse Sergent , Shem Rodger and Westley Gough . The following year he was New Zealand junior champion in the single pursuit on the track . Archbold also drove road races, but was more successful on the track, where he placed well several times in World Cup races . He won one stage each of the Mi-Août en Bretagne (2011) and An Post Rás (2013) races .

At the UCI Track World Championships in 2011 in Apeldoorn , Archbold won silver in the omnium all- around discipline, and in the same year he was Oceania champion in the same discipline, having already won this title in 2010. In 2013 he won the summer six-day race in Fiorenzuola d'Arda with his compatriot Dylan Kennett . He won two medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games , gold in scratch and bronze in team pursuit (with Pieter Bulling , Dylan Kennett and Marc Ryan ).

In 2015 Archbold joined the then UCI Professional Continental Team and later the UCI WorldTeam Bora-Argon 18 . In his first year there he contested the classic Paris – Roubaix and drove the race to the end despite a fall on the Trouée d'Arenberg and bloody facial injuries; he was penultimate.

At the Tour de France 2016 he gave up after the 17th stage after the "man with the best mullet in cycling" broke his pelvis in a fall the day before . As a result of this injury, he was unable to contest races for almost a year and had to undergo an operation in Germany in May 2017. His contract with Bora-hansgrohe was not renewed and he drove for Aqua Blue Sport in 2018 and for the UCI Continental Team EvoPro Racing at the beginning of 2019 , before moving back to Bora in April to support the team's sprinters.

In 2020 Archbold was New Zealand road racing champion.