James Fouché

James Fouché (born 28 March 1998) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist. In 2019 Fouche won the combined under-23 and elite New Zealand National Road Race Championships.

Career Amateur years Fouché starting road cycling in his youth. He won the Under 19 New Zealand national time trial championships in 2016 after coming second in 2015.

WIGGINS/Team Wiggins Le Col 2018 to 2019 At the New Zealand National Road Race Championships in 2019, Fouché attacked with 40 km to go. The bunch behind could not work well together so his lead grew. He managed to hold them off to win the combined Under-23 and Elite titles. Fouché crashed out of the winning move in the Ronde van Vlaanderen U23.

Black Spoke 2021 to 2023 2022 for Fouché started with the New Zealand national road championships. He didn't place in the Criterium but came fourth in the time trial. In the Road race Fouché attacked on the second lap going clear from the peloton, due to Cyclone Dovi the race length was shortened and the peloton was unable to catch Fouché resukling in him taking his second National Road race victory. In April he rode the Oceania Cycling Championships where he won the road race in the final sprint.

His became a UCI ProTeam for the 2023 season allowing access to more races.

At the UCI ProSeries race the Tour of Britain Fouché was in the breakaway for four of the seven stages. In the process of doing so he gained the most points in the King of the Mountains classification to win the Black jersey overall.

Euskaltel–Euskadi 2024 Fouché was the final rider added to 's roster for the 2024 season after signing a one-year contract. At the time of his signing, he was only the second non-Spanish rider to sign for the team since the team restarted in 2018.

MitoQ-NZ 2025 Fouché returned to New Zealand to sign for Continental team MitoQ–NZ Cycling Project for the 2025 season.

Major results Sources:

2016 Oceania Junior Road Championships 1st Road race

2017 National Under-23 Road Championships 2nd Road race 2nd Time trial 2018 National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Road race 3rd Time trial 2nd Clássica da Arrábida 7th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux 1st Mountains classification 2019 1st Road race, National Road Championships National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial 1st Mountains classification, Tour of Antalya 1st Mountains classification, Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux 1st Mountains classification, Volta ao Alentejo 5th Overall Paris–Arras Tour 5th Clássica da Arrábida 6th Kattekoers 2021 1st Mountains classification, Tour d'Eure-et-Loir 1st Mountains classification, Tour de la Mirabelle 1st Mountains classification, Kreiz Breizh Elites 8th Overall Course Cycliste de Solidarnosc et des Champions Olympiques 9th Overall Oberösterreich Rundfahrt 2022 1st Road race, Oceania Road Championships National Road Championships 1st Road race 4th Time trial 1st Overall Ronde de l'Oise 1st Stage 1 2023 1st Grand Prix Cerami 1st Mountains classification, Tour of Britain 1st Mountains classification, Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2nd Gravel and Tar Classic 2024 9th Grand Prix Criquielion