Angus Haggerty.<\/p>\n
The advice of cycling great Robbie McEwen was front of mind for rising star Angus Haggerty as he tackled the gruelling climb of stage three at the Pro Velo Tour of Tasmania.<\/p>\n
The Bond University Bachelor of Commerce student finished mid pack in the first two stages of the tour for the McCarthy Homes Queensland Cycling Foundation Team.<\/p>\n
He then looked to make his mark in the scramble over Gunn\u2019s Plains, drawing on positioning skills emphasised by McEwen and practised during a recent stint in Flanders, Belgium.<\/p>\n
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Haggerty met with the 12-time Tour de France stage winner ahead of his trip to the cycling capital of the world, with the veteran urging him to embrace the challenges of triweekly European kermesse racing, which sees cyclists complete 90\u2013120km of riding on a 5\u201310km loop, with those who are lapped eliminated from the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cRobbie told me to embrace the experience and practice my positioning skills in the first month, as I initially wouldn\u2019t finish any races due to getting lapped,\u201d Haggerty said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all about positioning in the bunch of 150 riders and if you\u2019re at the back, you\u2019re exposed to all of the wind, making it impossible to catch back up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a shock stepping up from Australian to European racing and I didn\u2019t finish races at the start, but after three months, I was able to finish and even crack into the top 20.\u201d<\/p>\n
The experience had the 19-year-old Haggerty, a natural climber, primed to test his legs at the highest level of racing in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cTasmania was suited to my riding \u2013 it\u2019s hilly with steep mountains,\u201d Haggerty said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was particularly looking forward to stage three\u2026it was an hour-long climb, about twenty kilometres, which played to my strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haggerty, who names four-time Tour de France winner and Slovenian cyclist Tadej Poga\u010dar as his idol, has big ambitions for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Haggerty. The advice of cycling great Robbie McEwen was front of mind for rising star Angus Haggerty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-504739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}