PRO DIARIES [INTRODUCING]
BRODIE CHAPMAN
FDJ NOUVELLE - AQUITAINE FUTUROSCOPE
Brodie made her Giro Rosa debut last year, supporting leader Uttrup Ludwig
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o break through as a professional cyclist, the theory goes, you need to have been racing at a high level from when you are a teenager. By age 22, most young riders have long been signed up to a top team. There are, of course, those few who prove that another way is possible. One is Brodie Chapman, the Australian who didn’t even start riding a road bike until she was working in a bike shop aged 20.
Brodie’s development was rapid in the four years after; first winning races across Queensland, then making her way through Australia’s National Series before getting picked up by the American Team Tibco-SVB in 2018. Now the 29-year-old is beginning her second year with FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope for 2021.