{"id":50910,"date":"2025-12-04T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=50910"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:54:36","slug":"%e2%9c%8d%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba-mckenzie-graduates-to-the-worldtour-with-team-jayco-alula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/%e2%9c%8d%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba-mckenzie-graduates-to-the-worldtour-with-team-jayco-alula\/","title":{"rendered":"\u270d\ufe0f\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa McKenzie graduates to the WorldTour with Team Jayco AlUla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian <strong>Hamish McKenzie<\/strong> will step up to the WorldTour in 2026 after signing a new two-year contract with <strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong>.\u00a0<br><br>The 21-year-old initially penned a deal with GreenEDGE Cycling ahead of the 2024 season following an impressive stint as a stagiaire. The youngster then\u00a0spent the past two seasons in the team\u2019s development squad, Hagens Berman Jayco, and will now graduate to the WorldTeam in 2026.\u00a0<br><br>McKenzie has already had a taste of racing alongside his future teammates having stepped into the WorldTeam roster for the Tour of Hellas and the CRO Race this season. \u00a0<br><br>The time trial talent has now shown his abilities in the pro ranks and the GreenEDGE Cycling management are excited and hopeful of his development in the coming years.\u00a0<br><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hamish McKenzie:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br><em>\u201cI\u2019m really proud and excited to be stepping up to the WorldTour with Team Jayco AlUla. It\u2019s a team that truly values development, teamwork, and creating opportunities for younger riders like myself. \u00a0<br><br>I\u2019ve watched and admired this team for years, and I\u2019m incredibly grateful for the trust they\u2019ve shown in me leading up to this point. I\u2019m looking forward to learning from riders I\u2019ve always looked up to, as well as working with the amazing support staff. I can\u2019t wait to get stuck in and kick off my season in Australia in January!\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gene Bates (Team Jayco AlUla Sporting Manager):\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br><em>\u201cHamish is one of our long-term projects, he\u2019s a big talent and we\u2019re delighted to see him making the step up into the WorldTour next season. The plan was always for him to spend some time with Axel Merckx and our development setup before graduating to the pro ranks with us.\u00a0<br><br>Unfortunately, he had an injury that meant the move was delayed by a year, but we believe he\u2019s proved that he is ready after his performances this season and we\u2019re looking forward to helping him develop further.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Hamish McKenzie will step up to the WorldTour in 2026 after signing a new two-year contract with Team Jayco AlUla.\u00a0 The 21-year-old initially penned a deal with GreenEDGE&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50912,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50910\/revisions\/50912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}