Niamh Fisher-Black’s Tour of Scandinavia came to a sudden halt after breaking a collarbone in a birthday crash in her first race since the Commonwealth Games.
The Nelson rider turned 22 on Friday (Saturday NZ time) – the day of the crash on the 127.7km fourth stage from Askim to Mysen in Norway.
Her SD Worx team posted a message on social media saying that Fisher-Black “had a minor fracture at the end of her collarbone” and would not start in the fifth leg.
She would “focus on her rehabilitation now.”
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Fisher-Black reposted the team message, with a single word: “Expletives.”
She finished 17th in the women’s road race at the Commonwealth Games last week and the Scandinavia race – which takes in Denmark, Norway and Sweden – was her first outing since then.
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New Zealand’s Niamh Fisher-Black, pictured in 2021, is out of the Tour of Scandinavia after breaking her collarbone in a crash.
Fisher-Black went through the middle of the pack with her teammate Anna Shackley, Arianna Fidanza (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) and Justine Ghekiere (Plantura-Pura) just outside the 3km mark, meaning the “crashed riders did not get the time of the group they were in at the time.”
SD Worx, a Dutch women’s cycling team, reported that Shackley and another team member, Demi Vollering, would also not start the fifth stage as a precaution after serious falls.