Alan Hatherly & Simon Andreassen Join Cannondale Factory Racing for 2021
Photos by Jean Pierre Jacobs for Cannondale
Former junior CX and XC World Champion Simon Andreassen from Denmark and former U23 & E-bike World Champion Alan Hatherly from South Africa will join Henrique Avancini and Manuel Fumic on Cannondale Factory Racing for 2021. Both Andreassen and Hatherly had breakout results in 2020 riding for Specialized Bicycles, with Andreassen winning his first Elite XCO World Cup and Alan securing an Elite XCO World Cup podium.
 | This is really a dream come true to be wearing the Cannondale colors for the upcoming season and beyond. Excitement levels are high for this new journey alongside powerhouse teammates! I can’t wait for the season to commence and to get racing on the new machine with some big goals in place for the 2021 season. I’m confident that I’m going to level up and learn in this space which is also really exciting. |
| It’s with such excitement and honor that I am joining Cannondale Factory Racing. One of those scenarios where reality beats imagination. It’s a complete game changer for me - especially after being on the first team camp and seeing how professionally the team works and how much fun we have together. |
The newly formed team spent two weeks together for a small team camp to prepare for the 2021 season, where the focus will be on the UCI MTB XC World Cup, UCI World Championships, the Olympic games in Tokyo and the ABSA Cape Epic in October.
| It’s great to see young guys with so much talent and willing to work hard toward their goals. With their talent and the Cannondale Factory Racing way of working, they going to have the tools to become important and significant athletes for our sport. CFR has developed a great working method and I believe Alan and Simon are going to have the best environment for their development. They both know what it takes to win. They both showed how fast they can go. Now it’s about learning how to be consistent and built a solid career. They add a lot of freshness and I truly believe they going to find the finest expertise on how to get the work done. CFR future looks great. |
| IHaving Alan and Simon on board for 2021 and beyond, alongside World #1 Henrique Avancini, and Manuel Fumic was the next logical step for CFR. Simon and Alan are 2 of the most promising up and coming riders from the U23 and already delivered Elite World Cup podium performances in 2020. Every single rider on the team has been a World Champion in their careers already. We expect some great things from this new team composition and the fun and laughs we had at team camp are a good indicator to be on the right track. |
| Building a team that is competing with the best in the world takes talent, hard work and dedication to the craft. CFR embodies every element to compete, and alongside the proven success of our returning riders both Alan and Simon raise the bar once more for the team. |
• Current Elite XC Danish National Champion
• 2020 Nove Mesto World Cup winner (first elite race/1st round)
• Former Jr. World Champion in XCO and Cyclocross
• Former U23 XCO World Champion
• Former e-bike World Champion 2019
• 5th at 2020 Nove Mesto World Cup (2nd round)
• South African Elite XC National Champion
• Former African Jersey winner at Cape Epic
Andreassen will be competing in his first race as a Cannondale athlete on Saturday, 9 January, at the Danish National Cyclocross Championships.
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I agree with @usuusu, the track layout looks very promising: Tokyo 2020 Test Event
Sarrou is a good signing, with the rainbow stripes and all, but he’s more than halfway through his career with exactly one big win. Andreasson had the same number of top-level wins after his very first race.
Specialized is a bit unique in that it's not running as an entirely separate entity with a fixed budget, where Specialized is merely a title sponsor. Specialized global HQ are fully involved, and if there's an opportunity to just buy a world championship, no doubt the guys in California are going to put some pressure and figure out a way to make the numbers work.
Kerschi and Sarrou are very, very good, but trading two young phenoms for late/mid career guys seems like a step backwards...
But on the women's side, they now have Stigger and Frei, which is a pretty kickass duo.
I guess, Gerhard Kerschbaumer will join SPECIALIZED. Sina Frei is....???
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