Sprinter
HEIGHT 167cm/5'5"
WEIGHT 64kg/141lbs
DOB 02-04-1998
AGE OF DIAGNOSIS 3
YEARS WITH TEAM 9
“Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teitei”
“Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain.”
PROFILE
Back for the 2024 season, New Zealander Hamish Beadle came close to a first professional win in 2023, painfully caught by a chasing group close to the line at the Tour of Taiwan after a day spent out on the attack almost brought the 25-year-old Kiwi some deserved glory.
Beadle enjoyed the best two seasons of his young career in 2022 and 2023, performing well at both the Tour of Antalya and the Tour of Turkey in 2022 and impressing in big races like the Tour of Denmark and Japan Cup in 2023 to keep his developmental arc firmly in the ascendant flow.
2021 marked Beadle’s first full professional season after coming through the ranks of the Team Novo Nordisk development pipeline from junior to devo team and finally the pro’s. Appearances at the Tour de la Mirabelle, Tour of South Boheme and the CRO-Race furthered the then 22-year-olds development.
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at only three years of age, Beadle doesn’t remember life without the condition. He grew up in an active family with one older brother. Both his father and brother raced bikes, so Beadle was motivated to follow in their footsteps. By age eight, he was already competing. As a junior in New Zealand, Beadle earned rankings on both the national and international track levels. Additionally, he and his teammates set the New Zealand national record in the U17 team pursuit and U19 team sprint.
Beadle attended one of Team Novo Nordisk’s summer Talent ID camps and decided to switch disciplines from the track to the road. In 2018, he gained significant experience and earned some promising results, which he carried into 2019 with fifth on stage three of the GP Cycliste de Saguenay and ninth in the youth classification at the Joe Martin Stage Race.
Off the bike, Beadle loves being outdoors whether it is surfing, trekking, or mountain biking and also enjoys art, reading, music and spending time with friends and family.