News: Jon Dibben Signs for Team Sky

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World Champion on the track, Jon Dibben signs for Team Sky

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News: Jon Dibben Signs for Team Sky

World class on the track and road, Jon Dibben, a former rider for Hargroves Racing team along with Dan Mclay and Owain Doull to name just two, has signed for Team Sky and gone World Tour.

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It is no surprise that the 22 year old won the World Points title on the track in London and is a very accomplished track cyclist but Jon backed up on the road with 9th in the Under 23 World Road Race Championship as well as getting eye-catching stage results at the prestigious Tour de l’Avenir.

Second in the Under 23 Tour of Flanders is also a season highlight for Jon who joins his former Hargroves Cycles teammate Owain Doull at Team Sky along with another young Brit, Tao Geoghegan Hart as Team Sky’s three neo-pros for 2017.

Dibben confirmed: “It’s very exciting. It’s going to be a big change and obviously a big step up, going from Team WIGGINS and an academy which is very track-focused, to go into the biggest cycling team in the world. It’s certainly a large step up and it’s a great opportunity to get into the big leagues and see what it’s all about.”
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“Obviously I know Owain and Tao – they are two of my best mates – so it’s good that we’re all joining the team together. It’s certainly a whole new environment and a different lifestyle. It’s a big change and it’s something I’m looking forward to.”

Looking back at 2016, Dibben told team Sky “I think on the road, it was a really good year. I hit the ground running at my first couple of races in April. I targeted (under-23) Flanders and that went well. And then once Olympic track selection was made, I then really focused back on the road, and under-23 races like the Tour de l’Avenir and the road worlds. Maybe at the Worlds I didn’t get exactly the results that I wanted to but it was the first time I’d had a consistent block on the road.”

Talking about his goals at Team Sky in 2017, Jon explained “Looking towards the future will be a big target in 2017 and I’m excited to start participating in the races. You’re main job as a pro is just to be on it from January to November – the whole year you need to be consistently good. So it’s just getting used to that constant high level, rather than this year where I had my targets and I went in as a team leader.”

“Next year will be much more about learning how the pro racers ride, and the volume of racing I imagine will step up to double if not more. So it will be about getting used to that”.

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