# Corbin Strong

Corbin Strong (born 30 April 2000) is a New Zealand road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Israel–Premier Tech. He won the points race and finished second in the team pursuit at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
In 2018, Strong crashed into a stationary car while on a training ride, fracturing his T1 vertebra.

## Career
### Early career

Strong started racing in 2019 with the St George Continental Cycling Team and achieved early success in Asian races. He won the Under-23 competition in the Tour de Korea and Tour de Kumano plus the sprint jersey in the Tour de Ijen.
He then spent two seasons with SEG Racing Academy, where a COVID-19 stricken world saw him only compete at the New Zealand Cycle Classic, finishing on the podium with top 5 results in all stages and walking away with the white youth jersey.
The following season Strong won the New Zealand Cycle Classic with the bonus seconds on the final stage pushing him into the lead. It was announced in August 2021 that Strong would ride for UCI WorldTeam Israel Start-Up Nation for the following three seasons.

### Israel–Premier Tech (2022 to present)
#### 2022

His first year of professional cycling started well with top 35 placings in all races he finished. A ninth place in Stage 7 of the Tour of Turkey placed him in 15th overall. Strong took his first professional victory at the shortened Tour of Britain taking the first stage up a punchy slope ahead of Omar Fraile.

#### 2023

Strong went to the 2023 Tour de France as his team's nominated sprinter. He achieved two top ten finishes in bunch sprints most notably ninth in the final stage of the Tour on the Champs-Élysées. Later in the season at the Tour de Luxembourg Strong took his only victory of the season. Winning the mass-sprint first stage to take the leaders jersey, he would lose it the following day.

#### 2024

Strong started his 2024 season at the Down Under Classic, a criterium that preludes the Tour Down Under, where he finished tenth. At the Tour Down Under, Strong finished eighth on the opening stage and with bonus seconds was sitting fourth overall. He moved up to second the following stage before dropping to third after stage four and ultimately retireing from the race on stage 5 due to illness. Strong bounced back from illness to podium at the Surf Coast Classic five days later.
His only victory of the season came at the 2.Pro rated Tour de Wallonie. Strong won Stage two of the tour in a mass bunch sprint moving him into the leaders jersey. He kept the leaders jersey for two more stages until the final stage where Matteo Trentin earned enough bonus seconds to pass Strong in the overall. Strong competed in the individual road race at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He was New Zealand's best finisher placing 27 out of 90 who started the race.
The 2024 Vuelta a España was Strong's second Grand Tour of his career where he achieved five top-6s in stages placing third twice.

## Major results

Sources:

### Road
#### 2018

    3rd Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge

#### 2019

    1st Points classification, Tour de Ijen
    4th Overall Tour de Kumano
       1st Young rider classification
    5th Overall Tour de Korea
       1st Young rider classification
    8th Overall Tour of Thailand

#### 2020

    Tour of Southland
       1st Stages 2 & 4
    3rd Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
       1st Young rider classification

#### 2021

    1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
    5th Gravel and Tar Classic
    9th Omloop van Valkenswaard

#### 2022 (1 pro win)

    2nd Coppa Bernocchi
    5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    6th Overall Tour of Britain
       1st Stage 1
    7th Gran Piemonte

#### 2023 (1)

    1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg
    2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    3rd Circuit Franco-Belge
    4th Giro del Veneto
    5th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
    7th GP Miguel Induráin
    9th La Drôme Classic

#### 2024 (2)

    1st Giro del Veneto
    2nd Road race, National Championships
    2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
       1st Stage 2
    2nd Gran Piemonte
    2nd Tour du Finistère
    3rd Surf Coast Classic
    4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
    8th La Drôme Classic
    10th Brabantse Pijl

#### 2025

    4th Surf Coast Classic
    6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — |
| Tour de France | 90 | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | DNF |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | Race in Progress |

### Track
#### 2016

    Oceania Junior Championships
       2nd Omnium
       2nd Team pursuit
       3rd Scratch

#### 2017

    National Junior Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Points race
       1st Team sprint
       2nd Individual pursuit
       2nd Scratch
    3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
    3rd Madison, National Championships (with Josh Scott)

#### 2018

    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships
    Oceania Junior Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Omnium
       1st Madison (with George Jackson)
       3rd Points race

#### 2019

    1st Points race, Oceania Championships
    National Championships
       1st Points race
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Scratch
       2nd Madison (with Dylan Kennett)
       3rd Omnium
    UCI World Cup
       2nd Team pursuit, Hong Kong
       2nd Team pursuit, Brisbane
       3rd Scratch, Hong Kong

#### 2020

    UCI World Championships
       1st Points race
       2nd Team pursuit
    National Championships
       1st Points race
       1st Omnium

#### 2021

    National Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Points race
       3rd Madison (with Tom Sexton)
    UCI Champions League
       1st Elimination, Palma
       1st Scratch, Palma
       2nd Scratch, London

#### 2022

    1st Scratch, Commonwealth Games
    2nd Elimination, UCI World Championships

#### 2023

    2nd Madison, National Championships (with George Jackson)