# James Fouché

James Fouché (born 28 March 1998) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Euskaltel–Euskadi. 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.
From August 2019 he rode as a Stagaire for Mitchelton–Scott, experiencing racing at a higher level.

### 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 Bolton Equities Black Spoke 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 to present

Fouché was the final rider added to Euskaltel–Euskadi's roster for the 2024 season after signing a one-year contract.

## Major results

Sources:

### 2016

    Oceania Junior Road Championships
       1st Road race
       2nd Time trial

### 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