Laurence Pithie

Laurence Pithie (born 17 July 2002) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Pithie attended Christchurch Boys' High School from 2016 to 2020.

Career As a 17-year-old Pithie won two gold medals at the UCI Junior World Championships in the Madison and Omnium. In 2019 Pithie won the national criterium champs allowing him to wear the national jersey in all criteriums for that year. Pithie started the 2021 season off with top 10's in the sprint stages at the New Zealand Cycle Classic. Then fourth in Slovenia after leading out teammate Marijn van den Berg to victory. He finally nabbed a podium in the Circuit de Wallonie behind winner Christophe Laporte. He held his form to the Tour de la Mirabelle where a second place in the reduced bunch finish of Stage 2 brought him to seventh overall. Pithie's greatest accomplishment came at the Baltic Chain Tour where he finished 2nd in every stage which allowed him to win Overall.

In 2025, Pithie is to make his Tour de France debut as the only New Zealand rider in the race, with his role being a domestique and protector for Primoz Roglic.

Pithie won Four days of Dunkirk in 2026. He won the opening stage He then came fifth, second, seventh and 45th in the following four stages. The final stage was challenging as he was involved in a crash early in the stage, he then had a puncture and needed to change his bike in the last five kilometres and being caught up behind a crash in the finale. Pithie said of the final stage: “I flatted with 5 kilometres to go, so switched bikes with Callum [Thornley]. That was great because I could make it back into the peloton. I tried to come to the front with my team, but a crash in the final kilometre, it was really close to taking me down,"

Major results Road

2019 1st Criterium, National Championships

2021 1st Overall Baltic Chain Tour 1st Points classification 1st Youth classification 1st Stage 1 (TTT) New Zealand Cycle Classic 3rd Circuit de Wallonie 4th GP Adria Mobil 7th Overall Tour de la Mirabelle 2022 National Championships 1st Under-23 Road race 2nd Under-23 Time trial 3rd Road race 1st Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies 1st Stage 3 Tour de Normandie 3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic 1st Youth classification 3rd Gran Premio Sportivi di Poggiana 8th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré 10th Paris–Troyes 2023 (1 pro win) 1st Cholet-Pays de la Loire 2nd Classic Loire Atlantique 5th Hamburg Cyclassics 5th Circuit de Wallonie 5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 8th Nokere Koerse 2024 (1) 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues National Championships 3rd Road race 3rd Time trial 5th Surf Coast Classic 7th Paris–Roubaix 8th Le Samyn 10th Grand Prix de Fourmies 2025 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 5th Time trial, National Championships 2026 (6) 1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 1 1st Rund um Köln Tour of Slovenia 1st Points classification 1st Stages 1 & 3 3rd Hamburg Cyclassics 4th Overall Tour de Wallonie 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen 6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia 103 — Tour de France — 89 Vuelta a España — —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

2019 UCI World Junior Championships 1st Omnium 1st Madison (with Kiaan Watts) National Junior Championships 1st Omnium 3rd Team pursuit 3rd Kiko 1st Individual pursuit, Oceania Junior Championships 2020 National Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Madison (with Thomas Sexton)