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Zwift Academy awarded a professional cycling contract to a female user

Eric Min · 659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised · May 14, 2017 · at 19:09

Eric Min, founder and CEO of Zwift, explains the content marketing strategy and real-world athletic outcomes of the inaugural Zwift Academy program.

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“1200 ladies from around the world signed up for this program. And it, the three finalists, so they had to go through a number of different tests and training programs, all on Zwift, and they were being monitored by coaches, certified coaches. We took three finalists, two, it happened to be two Americans, one Dutch lady, to Mallorca, Spain, and where they trained for 10 days with a professional team. And the professional team would test these three riders, And offer a professional contract to one of them, and one of them is now a professional rider.”

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The claim, plainly

1,200 women from around the world signed up for Zwift Academy, three finalists trained in Mallorca, and one finalist earned a professional cycling contract.

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Assessment

All elements of the claim are verified by contemporaneous cycling media and official announcements from Zwift and Canyon-SRAM regarding the inaugural 2016 Zwift Academy: (1) 1,194 riders (reported as approximately 1,200) registered globally, (2) three finalists (Jessie Donavan, Leah Thorvilson, and Yvonne van Hattum) attended a 10-day training and testing camp in Mallorca, Spain in December 2016, and (3) one finalist, Leah Thorvilson, was awarded a professional contract with Canyon-SRAM for the 2017 season.

Contemporaneous reporting by Zwift Insider and Canyon-SRAM in December 2016 confirmed that 1,194 women (publicly cited as ~1,200) entered the inaugural 2016 Zwift Academy.
Zwift and Canyon-SRAM documented that three finalists (two Americans and one Dutch rider) were selected to train at a 10-day camp in Mallorca, Spain.
On December 19, 2016, Leah Thorvilson was officially announced as the winner and awarded a 2017 UCI Women's WorldTour contract with Canyon-SRAM.

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[1] facebook.com [2] bikeradar.com [3] zwift.com [4] zwift.com [5] outsideonline.com [6] bicycleretailer.com [7] zwiftinsider.com [8] zwiftinsider.com

Zwift Academy 2016 1200 women finalists Mallorca Canyon SRAM inaugural 2016 Zwift Academy Canyon SRAM Leah Thorvilson 1200 women Mallorca Zwift Academy 2016 finalists Mallorca Leah Thorvilson 1200

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