Coryn Labecki will carry the pink colors of EF Schooling-Cannondale for highway races in 2024, as the brand new girls’s workforce confirmed the signing for subsequent season. In criterium occasions throughout the primary half of the yr, search for the pink, white and blue palette of the stars-and-stripes jersey on Labecki, as she earned her 73rd nationwide title, this one as US professional criterium champion.
Labecki is recent off her journey to Scotland with Group USA for her tenth look on the UCI Highway World Championships. Her greatest end was in 2010 when she took the bronze within the junior girls’s highway race. This outing, she took half within the Combined Relay Group Time Trial, USA going eighth, and within the elite girls’s highway race, the place she was unable to complete after taking place in a foul crash.
“I grew up racing crits; that’s how I discovered my race craft. I’m extra of a stage race rider, a one-day form of rider,” she informed Cyclingnews previous to her win in Knoxville.
“It doesn’t matter what the course is, so long as there’s a end line, my objective is to get there first or to get my workforce there first.”
After two years at Jumbo-Visma, she’ll look to guide the brand new workforce in one-day races in addition to alternatives on any punchy programs at stage races. Group Normal Supervisor Esra Tromp famous that Labecki was a welcome addition for her veteran management, particularly her information on the way to learn techniques and execute efficiency.
“Coryn is a rider I’ve recognized for a number of years. She is a pure chief who can assist riders very well and push her teammates to the next degree,” Tromp mentioned.
“Coryn is tremendous sensible in relation to analyzing races, seeing what occurred and what occurred with different groups, and understanding their techniques. She’s additionally a winner of some actually massive races, so she is aware of the way to take care of strain. That form of expertise will assist with a few of her much less skilled teammates. Coryn is a very massive believer to find stability in focus and having fun with the time on the highway.”
Labecki had quite a lot of accidents whereas on the Dutch squad and didn’t have the person success as her 5 years with the Group DSM programme. Within the spring Classics in 2022, Labecki took sixth at Trofeo Alfredo Binda and ninth at Amstel Gold Race.
Over the months of spring, she battled COVID-19 twice and a abdomen bug proper after The Girls’s Tour, which left her in fifth place on the US Professional Highway Nationwide Championships. She then broke her collarbone on the finish of August and was compelled to overlook Worlds. Her greatest particular person outcomes this yr have been the US Professional crit title and a silver medal on the US Professional highway race.
After making a splash with UnitedHealthcare from 2014-2016, she moved to Group Sunweb (later DSM), the place she had a stage win and second place on the 2021 Giro d’Italia Donne, a pair of runner-up stage finishes on the 2021 Tour of Norway, two stage wins on the 2019 Lotto Belgium Tour. In a single-day races, she scored victories in 2017 on the Tour of Flanders, RideLondon Classique and Trofeo Alfredo Binda. Her 2018 US Professional highway race nationwide title stays probably the most particular outcomes for the California native.
“I like that all-or-nothing mentality of one-day races. I like actually punchy programs, one thing actually dynamic that’s up and down all day, particularly if there’s a barely uphill end that’s not too lengthy. Races like that usually go well with me very well.”
Labecki started racing as an 11-year-old, taking over cyclocross, mountain biking, monitor biking, and highway racing. Throughout these disciplines, up to now 20 years, she has racked up 73 nationwide titles, starting from junior to elite.
“I like the techniques. I like the technique, the way to be ready, and every part that’s concerned with racing. That is what drives me each day. I have been referred to as a sprinter up to now, however I wish to name myself a motorbike racer.” she mentioned.
“I’d do something for my teammates. I at all times get up for my teammates. I don’t take any guff. I’ve raced for a very long time and been within the sport for a very long time, so I like to share what I do know and train my fellow teammates. The opposite factor is I’m at all times in search of one of the simplest ways for my teammates to win. That’s at all times on my thoughts in relation to racing. I’m a giant workforce participant.”
Turning 31 later in August, Labecki mentioned the recent begin in 2024 will see her again on a well-recognized model, Cannondale, which was her first highway bike. “I nonetheless have it, and now it’s my commuter bike,” Labecki mentioned.
Her house when not racing is now in Pennsylvania, and Labecki has already set objectives for 2024, together with a deal with the highway race at her second Olympic Video games, having completed seventh in Tokyo.
“I’d like to get some wins. That’s my jam. To get a win subsequent yr can be stunning, and it’s additionally an Olympic yr which is one other massive objective of mine,” she mentioned.
“Largely, I simply need to do no matter I can to assist get some wins on the board. I simply love racing, and it looks as if this workforce goes to be a very good group to take pleasure in racing with.”