Peter Sagan will race Unbound Gravel 2022
Three-time world road race champion is participating in his first gravel event.
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Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies) will participate in Unbound Gravel 2022, marking his first entry into a gravel race.
Alongside his teammate Daniel Oss, Sagan will ride the 100-mile version of the route, rather than the flagship 200-mile event, that traverses the Flint Hills of Kansas and contains 5,720m of elevation.
“We are riding to Unbound, see you all there!” Sagan said in a video posted in Instagram from his high-altitude training camp in Utah.
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His announcement referenced his sponsors Specialized – a bike manufacturer for whom Sagan has promoted the gravel-specific bike Diverge.
Following a successful junior career in mountain-biking and cyclocross, Sagan has predominantly focused on road-racing, although he rode the mountain-bike race at the Rio Olympic games in 2016, and his own Gran Fondo event in Truckee, California features gravel roads.
At Unbound Gravel, Sagan will line up in a field of more than 4,000 participants across five distances.
The Slovakian has endured a difficult illness-disrupted start to 2022 with only 13 race days. He took part in the Spring Classics, registered a fifth place at Milan-San Remo but has withdrawn from multiple races since.
After racing Unbound, Sagan will travel to the Tour de Suisse and then the Tour de France.
