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Full name | Niamh Fisher-Black | ||||||||||||||
Born | Nelson, New Zealand | 12 August 2000||||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Team SD Worx–Protime | ||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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2017–2018 | Mike Greer Homes | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Torelli–Assure–Madison | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Bigla Pro Cycling[1] | ||||||||||||||
2021– | SD Worx | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Niamh Fisher-Black (born 12 August 2000) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime.[2][3] She is the older sister of fellow racing cyclist Finn Fisher-Black, and was educated at Nelson College for Girls.[4]
Fisher-Black paid her own way to the 2022 road cycling world championships in Wollongong, Australia as Cycling New Zealand could not afford to meet the costs due to due "a lack of government funding and the loss of key sponsors".[5] In the 164 km road race, she was the first placed under-23 rider and 12th overall. She became the first under-23 world women's champion.[6][7][8] Fisher-Black said of the win “I wasn't aware straightaway at first when I crossed the line [that I’d won the under-23 race]."[9] “The rainbow jersey, very few people have one and it’s the pinnacle of cycling so it’s super special to have...I think I showed I was the strongest under-23 rider on the day and nothing can take away from that.”[10]
In June 2023, Fisher-Black won the final stage of the Tour de Suisse Women. She said, of the victory, "Winning is the very best feeling...Finally I could throw my hands in the air myself. This is what you live for as a cyclist".[11][12] She was named as the lead rider for Team SD Worx in the women's Giro d'Italia.[13]