Connor Swift makes mid-season switch to Arkea-Samsic
British national road race champion Connor Swift has moved to Arkéa-Samsic with immediate effect, the French squad announced today. He will make his debut for the team at Tuesday's Four Days of Dunkerque.
The 23-year-old has raced for British Continental team Madison Genesis since 2017, winning the British National Championships with a solo move last year. His final race for the team was the Tour de Yorkshire, where he finished ninth overall.
Arkea-Samsic boss Emmanuel Hubert noted that Swift will form part of the lead-out train for the team's star rider, André Greipel, who joined over the winter.
"He is a rider with a lot of potential; he is very fast in the sprints and he knows how to fight for position," said Hubert on the Arkéa-Samsic website.
"Robert Wagner, who was supposed to be André's lead-out man, has unfortunately been out of action for several weeks. We had to reinforce the team in that area to be more performant, and now that we have Connor Swift, it's done."
It won't be Swift's first of riding in the professional ranks, as last season he rode as a stagiaire for Dimension Data. Swift called the chance to race with Greipel as "surreal" and thanked Madison Genesis for allowing him to make the mid-season move.
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