Zwift Academy 2021 Finals, Ep 1

December 15, 2021

LAST UPDATED February 23, 2024

150,000 riders from around the globe participated in this year’s Zwift Academy Road, but only 10 (5 men and 5 women) made it to the finals.

This year, for the first time ever, both groups of finalists arrived in Mallorca to stay at the Zwift Academy Beach House and battle it out in the Zwift Academy finals. It’s like Survivor, but on bikes. And we get to follow them through a 5-episode video series from GCN, which launches today!

The riders had 5 days to impress the judges. Who are the judges? Canyon//SRAM’s Director Sportiff Beth Duryea and Performance Director Lars Teutenberg, and Alpecin-Fenix’s Director Sportiff Christoph Roodhooft and Performance Manager Kristoff De Kegel.

After meeting the 10 finalists, we get to watch the riders complete an indoor fitness test where they hit maximal efforts across a range of time intervals. This delivers crucial data to the judges, as shown below.

Fitness Test Results: Women

Functional Threshold Power

1	Maud Oudeman	256W	4.5 w/kg
2	Imogen Alton	246W	4.2 w/kg
3	Rachael Wales	214W	4.1 w/kg
4	Caitlin Conyers	230W	4.0 w/kg
5	Willemijn Prins	234W	3.9 w/kg

VLamax

1	Caitlin Conyers	0.63 mmol/l/s	452W
2	Imogen Alton	0.53 mmol/l/s	394W
3	Maud Oudeman	0.54 mmol/l/s	389W
4	Willemijn Prins	0.51 mmol/l/s	389W
5	Rachael Wales	0.45 mmol/l/s	293W

Fitness Test Results: Men

Functional Threshold Power

1	Sam Hill	395W	5.5 w/kg
2	Byron Munton	327W	5.4 w/kg
3	Mads Rahbek	335W	5.3 w/kg
4	Alex Bogna	335W	5.1 w/kg
5	Cooper Sayers	332W	5.0 w/kg

VLamax

1	Cooper Sayers	0.66 mmol/l/s	576W
2	Alex Bogna	0.63 mmol/l/s	545W
3	Sam Hill	0.49 mmol/l/s	461W
4	Mads Rahbek	0.46 mmol/l/s	383W
5	Byron Munton	0.48 mmol/l/s	381W

After the tests, GCN’s Daniel Lloyd discusses the women’s results with the Canyon/SRAM judges, while Si Richardson discusses the men’s results with the Alpecin-Fenix judges.