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Girls’s WorldTour 2024 – All the things it’s essential know


In a reset of the Girls’s WorldTeams, the UCI have awarded 15 new licences for the 2024-2025 seasons, with AG Insurance coverage-Soudal and Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking transferring as much as the highest tier for the primary time.

This season was the tip of the first-ever promotion/relegation cycle for the Girls’s WorldTour, and there have been 16 candidates for 15 Girls’s WorldTour licences accessible, with Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi lacking out.

It’s the first season that the ladies’s groups face a relegation system as the game’s governing physique launched a brand new ‘sporting’ requirement, which provides collectively every workforce’s UCI factors throughout the 2022 and 2023 seasons. 

This new factors requirement is considered alongside the opposite 4 standards: administrative, moral, monetary, and organisational. 

Cyclingnews takes a more in-depth have a look at the 15 Girls’s WorldTeams for 2024.

AG Insurance coverage-Soudal

Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Sarah Gigante
  • Rider to observe: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio
  • Notable addition: Kimberley Le Courtroom, Julie Van de Velde

AG Insurance coverage-Soudal have secured one of many coveted 15 WorldTeam licences for the 2024-2025 seasons, a aim for the workforce since its inception. The workforce provide a three-tier program, a improvement pathway from under-19 to its under-23 to the brand new WorldTeam.

There are three new signings in 2024, with Julie Van de Velde becoming a member of the workforce from Fenix-Deceuninck and multi-time African Continental Champion Kimberley Le Courtroom. A final-minute determination noticed the workforce safe Sarah Gigante, who mutually agreed to finish her contract with Movistar early. The Australian brings her highly effective time trial and climbing strengths to the squad, and will shine within the mountainous stage races.

Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, who supposed to retire final 12 months, decided to steer the AG Insurance coverage-Soudal-QuickStep. In what has been certainly one of her greatest profession strikes, Moolman-Pasio has reignited her drive to succeed with wins at Tour de Romandie, Setmana Valenciana, Durango Emakumeen Saria, Tour Féminin Worldwide des Pyrénées, top-10s within the Ardennes Classics, third general at Vuelta a Burgos and sixth general on the Tour de France Femmes.

Look ahead to Moolman-Pasio to assist develop expertise throughout the three AG Insurance coverage-Soudal programmes in 2024.

Canyon-SRAM Racing

2023 Tour de France Femmes: Ricarda Bauernfeind of Group Canyon-SRAM Racing celebrates on the  podium as stage 5 winner (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Zoe Bäckstedt
  • Riders to observe: Ricarda Bauernfeind, Antonia Niedermaier
  • Notable addition: Justyna Czapla

Getting into a fifth season on the Girls’s WorldTour, Canyon-SRAM Racing continues with a strong roster of veterans – Kasia Niewiadoma, Elise Chabbey and even Chloe Dygert. Subsequent season, search for a surge from a flock of younger expertise, as 9 of the 15 riders begin the season at 23 years of age or youthful. The German duo of Antonia Niedermeier, 20, and Ricarda Bauernfeind, 23, who graduated to the WorldTour final 12 months from the workforce’s improvement squad, wasted no time in making impressions and are anticipated to do extra. 

Bauernfeind grew to become the youngest stage winner of the Tour de France Femmes with a solo victory on the third day of racing final 12 months. Niedermeier attacked late on stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Donne and held off Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) for the victory. Furthemore, Niedermaier received two time trials in 2023, together with the German U23 title, whereas Bauernfeind climbed her technique to sixth general at Tour de Romandie Féminin. They’re a formidable duo.

The newest call-up from the Canyon-SRAM Era squad is one other younger German, Justyna Czapla. {The teenager}, who turns 20 in January, captured seven prime 10s final 12 months, together with a bronze medal at nationals within the girls’s U23 ITT. She has already embraced the longer distances of elite programs, noting that her eighth place on the 126.9km reVolta UCI 1.1 race was her greatest spotlight. Anticipate her to shine in a help position this 12 months. 

Zoe Bäckstedt, additionally simply 19, was one of many large signings for the German WorldTeam upfront of the 2024 season. She has already received Junior World Championship titles on the monitor, in cyclocross and on the street, profitable each the ladies’s junior ITT and street race rainbow jerseys in 2022. So when EF Training-TIBCO-SVB folded in 2023, Canyon-SRAM signed her for 3 years, starting in September final 12 months and he or she impressed with fifth general at Simac Girls Tour. 

Ceratizit-WNT

Cédrine Kerbaol celebrates profitable the white youth classification jersey on the 2023 Tour de France Femmes (Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Marta Jaskulska
  • Rider to observe: Marta Lach
  • Notable addition: Cédrine Kerbaol

Beforehand acting on the Continental degree for the previous 4 seasons, Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking completed 2023 because the tenth greatest workforce on the earth rankings and earned certainly one of two Girls’s WorldTour berths accessible for the subsequent two seasons. Marta Lach anchors a core roster of 14 returning riders, with solely Marta Jaskulska the one new addition.

Lach, nonetheless solely 26, will experience a fourth 12 months with the German workforce. She completed with a flourish this 12 months, profitable back-to-back one-day races at La Choralis Fourmies Féminine and Grisette Grand Prix de Wallonie, which adopted a second and fourth place at two different French one-day occasions. She compiled 21 prime 20s, together with a stage win at Bretagne Girls Tour. 

French time trial champion Cédrine Kerbaol was the largest addition to the workforce this previous season and can proceed to develop at simply 22 years of age. Early within the season she received a stage and the GC title at tour de Normandie Féminin, scored prime 10s in three extra stage races and rode into one of the best younger rider jersey on her first look on the Tour de France Femmes. At that race she proved she might climb with one of the best and was aggressive throughout all sorts of terrain.

Newcomer Jaskulska raced 4 seasons with the Liv programme. At 23, the Polish rider has three ITT bronze medals in her nationwide championships, ending behind teammate Lach the final two seasons. She performs nicely in one-day races, with prime 15s at Basic Brugge-De Panne and Dwars door Vlaanderen in 2023, and provides depth to a younger workforce of all riders of their 20s who’re out to show they belong on the prime tier.

Group dsm-firmenich PostNL

Juliette Labous (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Rachele Barbieri
  • Riders to observe: Juliette Labous, Charlotte Kool
  • Notable addition: Josie Nelson

Group dsm-firmenich PostNL have constructed a squad across the improvement and success of French rider Juliette Labous, who has a deal with the hilly one-day occasions and mountainous levels races. 

Labous has regularly proven progress within the high-altitude mountain climbs, time trials, and explosiveness in one-day races, together with a tactical talent that retains her in competition for stage wins and prime locations within the normal classification on the greatest races. The workforce additionally has a profitable wildcard in Pfeiffer Georgi.

The workforce has added younger climbing expertise in recent times with Maeve Plouffe, Eglantine Rayer, Anna van der Meiden and Nienke Vinke.

The opposite essential focus for the workforce centres round sprinter Charlotte Kool, who spent her first season at Group dsm-firmenich below the steering of Lorena Wiebes earlier than her compatriot transferred to SD Worx and have become certainly one of her greatest rivals. 

The workforce have elevated help for Kool within the sprints by bringing Rachele Barbieri on board. The Italian sprinter joins the workforce from Liv Racing-TeqFind however has ample expertise to supply within the greatest races. 

Kool missed out on a coveted stage win on the Tour de France Femmes, however with Barbieri becoming a member of her dash workforce alongside Franziska Koch, Megan Jastrab and Georgi, her probabilities of capturing that win have elevated.

FDJ-SUEZ

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Amber Kraak
  • Riders to observe: Marta Cavalli, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
  • Notable addition: Lauren Molengraaf

FDJ-Suez had their most-ever wins in a season in 2023 with 19 wins, however could not fairly match their victories on the greatest races from the 12 months earlier than. 

Star climber and GC hope Marta Cavalli nonetheless felt the consequences of her brutal crash on the inaugural Tour de France Femmes within the early a part of the season however confirmed indicators of returning to her greatest. She’ll look to get again to the Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallone profitable kind from 2022 and at solely 25 has greater than sufficient time to take action subsequent season. 

The French aspect maintains one of many peloton’s hottest prime riders, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, who took extra thrilling wins on the Tour of Scandinavia and completed within the prime seven on the Tour de France Femmes and Giro d’Italia Donne. 

They’ll probably share management at Grand Excursions and the hillier Classics in 2024, but additionally have Grace Brown who can function on a spread of parcours and took probably the most wins of her profession. This included three at WorldTour degree and he or she stays among the finest particular person time trial riders on the earth. Loes Adegeest additionally added one other dimension to their assault, taking her brilliance in Esports biking to the street on the Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Street Race with victory there.

They’ve misplaced expertise in Emilia Fahlin to Arkea-B&B Inns and sprinter Clara Copponi to Lidl-trek, however have introduced in a mixture of youth expertise in Lauren Molengraaf and Léa Curinier, alongside confirmed expertise in Coralie Demay. Amber Kraak was one other strong pickup from Jumbo-Visma and will assist Uttrup Ludwig and Cavalli on the Ardennes Classics and Grand Excursions.

Fenix-Deceuninck

Yara Kastelijn  (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Pauliena Rooijakkers 
  • Riders to observe: Yara Kastelijn, Julie De Wilde
  • Breakthrough star: Christina Schweinberger

Fenix-Deceuninck made fairly the step up in 2023 throughout their first 12 months at World Tour degree, and there is no motive to imagine 2024 will not be extra of the identical. 

Riders discovered new heights because the workforce stepped as much as the game’s prime division and the Belgian workforce lived with the large names of SD Worx and Lidl-Trek on the Tour de France femmes. 

They took an unimaginable stage victory by Yara Kastelijn and got here shut to a different with Julie Van de Velde getting agonisingly near the end line on stage 3 solely to be caught by the sprinting peloton. Nonetheless, they punched nicely above their weight and likewise fought laborious to be within the Queen of the Mountains jersey for the opening few levels. 

The Tour wasn’t their solely spotlight, as Austria’s Christina Schweinberger established herself as a constant top-ten rider on most parcours. She was glorious within the spring Classics and got here top-eight in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Brugge de Panne and Gent Wevelgem. 

She continued this into the summer season with fifth on a stage of the Tour and two unimaginable performances on the World Championships in Scotland to take third within the time trial and fifth within the street race. 

With herself and Kastelijn main a younger squad that additionally contains skills corresponding to multi-discipline star Puck Pieterse, with the added expertise of Pauliena Rooijakkers, Fenix-Deceuninck ought to be nicely watched out for. 

Human Powered Well being

Krista Doebel-Hickok strikes to Human Powered Well being in 2024 from now-folded EF Training-TIBCO-SVB (Picture credit score: David Stockman/Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Krista Doebel-Hickok
  • Rider to observe: Audrey Cordon-Ragot
  • Notable addition: Yuliia Biriukova

Of their second season as a Girls’s WorldTour workforce, the Human Powered Well being squad improved 13 spots within the year-end UCI workforce rankings from the inaugural bounce to the highest tier. The increase was largely resulting from some notable success for Polish rider Daria Pikulik, who had a stage victory at Santos Tour Down Below, a one-day win at Konvert Koerse and made her GC title on the Tour of Guangxi in October the icing on the cake for the season.

Two veterans will present GC management for the workforce this 12 months, notably Audrey Cordon-Ragot and likewise Ruth Edwards. They permit the workforce to present Pikulik room to proceed to develop. 

A two-time US nationwide champion, Edwards is a wild card, having stepped away from a embellished street profession in 2021 and constructed endurance at off-road occasions, together with second place at Leadville MTB 100. The eight-time French champion had an unsettled begin to her 2023, however settled in at HPH in April this previous season. A now-stable surroundings, and an Olympic Video games 12 months in her residence nation, offers Cordon-Ragot enormous incentives to carry out at her greatest.

Fellow US rider Krista Doebel-Hickok is certainly one of 9 new riders on the squad for 2024, and he or she ought to make a right away impression. The California native is a pure climber who received the Tour Féminin des Pyrénées in 2022 and has ridden nicely on mountain levels on the Tour de France Femmes and Giro d’Italia Donne. She’s going to pack a formidable 1-2 punch when racing with Edwards, but additionally with WorldTour debutante Yuliia Biriukova.

Biriukova will add choices for attacking on mountainous terrain. The 25-year-old Ukranian has already notched a stage victory within the 2022 Thüringen Girls Tour, had podiums within the Tour des Pyrénées and in 2023, whereas a part of the UAE Growth Group, received the Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar.

Lidl-Trek

Elisa Longo Borghini (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
  • Returning to the peloton: Ellen van Dijk
  • Rider to observe: Elisa Longo Borghini, Lizzie Deignan, Elisa Balsamo
  • Notable additions: Isabella Holmgren, Ava Holmgren, Izzy Sharp, Fleur Moors, Felicity Wilson-Haffenden

Lidl-Trek has made one of many greatest pushes in improvement, signing junior mountain bike and cyclocross World Champion Isabella Holmgren and sister Ava Holmgren, junior girls’s time trial Worlds silver medalist Izzy Sharp, junior girls’s street race Worlds bronze medallist Fleur Moors, and junior time trial World Champion Felicity Wilson-Haffenden to the workforce beginning in 2024.

Whereas the way forward for the workforce is wanting vibrant, Lidl-Trek will probably deal with leaders  Elisa Longo Borghini and Lizzie Deignan throughout the largest one-day races and stage races. Ellen van Dijk may also return to the peloton after taking time from the game on maternity go away however will focus her time trial skills on the Olympic Video games.

Becoming a member of the workforce this 12 months is Clara Copponi from FDJ-SUEZ. She provides dash energy to the workforce and is bound to help Elisa Balsamo on flatter terrain but additionally in levels at races just like the Giro d’Italia Girls and Tour de France Femmes.

If there have been ever a workforce that would rival SD Worx, it’s Lidl-Trek, stacked with such a variety of expertise, together with Gaia Realini, Lucinda Model, and Shirin van Anrooij, amongst others; look ahead to this workforce to shake up the SD Worx racing narrative in 2024.

Liv-AlUla Jayco

Mavi Garcia of Group Liv Racing Teqfind in 2023 (Picture credit score: Bruno Bade/Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Mavi García
  • Rider to observe: Ruby Roseman-Gannon
  • Notable addition: Ella Wyllie

The Australian workforce Jayco AlUla introduced in July they might merge with Liv Racing-Teqfind and race in 2024 as Liv-AlUla. Each squads had comparable seasons, Jayco ending fifteenth within the UCI World rankings and Liv Racing at seventeenth. The core of the squad returns with a trio of Australian expertise – Georgia Baker, Alex Manly and Ruby Roseman-Gannon.

Final season’s greatest particular person performer was Ruby Roseman-Gannon, who ignited the 12 months in January with the GC victory at Bay Crits, fourth general at Santos Tour Down Below, after which had 5 prime 20s at spring Classics in Europe, together with fifth at Dwars door Vlaanderen. She continued with robust stage racing performances and will show to be a key asset for the workforce’s latest signing, Mavi García.

5-time Spanish champion García gives GC power for any stage race, having a pair of GC prime 10s on the Giro d’Italia Donne within the final two seasons, together with third general in 2022. A confirmed climber, she may have 4 teammates in tow from her Liv season final 12 months – Jeanne Korevaar, Silke Smulders, Quinty Ton, and Caroline Andersson – so she received’t actually really feel like she’s on a brand new workforce.

New Zealander Ella Wyllie is a 21-year-old rising expertise, who was third eventually 12 months’s Navarra Girls’s Elite Basic one-day race and second general within the youth classification at each the Santos Tour Down Below (with eighth on GC) and the Tour de France Femmes. She rode on the Continental degree for Lifeplus Wahoo final 12 months and might be a key help rider on any climbing levels for García.

Movistar

Liane Lippert (Picture credit score: Alex Broadway/Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Olivia Baril
  • Rider to observe: Liane Lippert, Emma Norsgaard
  • Notable addition: Claire Steels

Nothing can put together a workforce for the departure of one of many sport’s icons in Annemiek van Vleuten, however that’s the scenario now offered to Movistar. The Dutch famous person has stated goodbye after three nice years on the Spanish workforce and they’re going to now have work on their fingers to fill the void of outcomes left by her retirement.

Van Vleuten received each the Giro and Vuelta in her last season and it could be flawed to count on the workforce to right away replicate it, nonetheless, on the Tour de France Femmes it was her teammates who stepped up. Liane Lippert took her first WorldTour victory in three years on stage 2, earlier than Emma Norsgaard doubled the workforce’s success with a breakaway triumph on stage 6.

Lippert might be key in 2024 and will lead the workforce within the Classics and Grand Excursions, however she’ll have the added help of recent signings Claire Steels and Olivia Baril from Israel-Premier Tech Roland and UAE Group ADQ respectively.

Baril specifically is a superb pickup for his or her GC ambitions having completed within the prime six general of each Itzulia Girls and the Tour of Scandinavia, and at solely 26 nonetheless has a lot of roo to develop additional.

The Spanish squad additionally invested in youth with the signing of Spanish twins Laura and Lucia Ruiz Pérez from Eneicat-CMTeam-Seguros Deportivos and bringing in British expertise Cat Ferguson. The latter will not be a part of the squad till August after turning 18 in April earlier than her first full WorldTour season begins in 2025.

Roland Biking

Tamara Dronova-Balabolina on the Tour de France Femmes (Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Sylvie Swinkels
  • Rider to observe: Tamara Dronova-Balabolina
  • Notable addition: Maggie Coles-Lyster

The Swiss workforce rolls alongside for a seventh season and in 2024 has a 3rd title change throughout three years on the WorldTour degree. As Israel Premier Tech Roland final 12 months, the Twelfth-ranked girls’s workforce within the World had constant performances from six riders to rise six spots from the 12 months earlier than. 

Gone to Movistar is Claire Steels, who was the highest performer for the squad final 12 months, however not far behind was Tamara Dronova-Balabolina. The 30-year-old can energy throughout all sorts of hilly terrain on one-day races and by no means appears to falter in stage races. She completed on the rostrum on 4 of 5 days at Ruta del Sol late within the spring and was third on GC. Late within the season she completed sixth at Tre Valli Varesine girls’s race. 

It’s an Olympic 12 months and Canadian Maggie Coles-Lyster has aspirations on the monitor, however she ought to be capable of contribute along with her first full season at Roland Biking, and one with out distractions from the collapse of B&B Inns after which extra turmoil with Zaaf Biking. That’s all previously and the robust sprinter will look to proceed robust outcomes on the street, having completed fourth at Tour of Guangxi.

WorldTour and workforce rookie Sylvie Swinkels is simply 23, however already has 5 seasons of racing. The Dutch rider provides depth to the sprints for flat levels and one-day races, and may assault  for her personal alternatives, corresponding to Clasica de Almeria the place she was within the bunch for tenth.

Group SD Worx

Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (Picture credit score: SD Worx)
  • Returning to the peloton: Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
  • Riders to observe: Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky, Lorena Wiebes
  • Notable addition: Femke Gerritse

Probably the most highly effective workforce in girls’s biking, SD Worx, have a spread of profitable expertise throughout one-day races and Spring Classics, time trials, flat to mountainous terrain and stage races with which to decide on on any given occasion throughout the WorldTour season.

Notably returning to the peloton this 12 months is former World Champion Chantal van den Broek-Blaak, who has taken time away from the game on maternity go away. The Dutch rider is among the most prolific winners within the Spring Classics, having secured titles at  Amstel Gold Race, Strade Bianche, Gent-Wevelgem, Ronde van Drenthe, Omloop Het Niewsblad and Tour of Flanders. Look ahead to her to spice up the workforce’s already vastly profitable Classics squad.

The workforce additionally depends closely on their three prime riders: Tour de France winner Demi Vollering, World Champion Lotte Kopecky and world’s prime sprinter Lorena Wiebes. It is going to be a prime precedence for the workforce to win a second consecutive Tour de France title however Kopecky will goal to strengthen her personal wild-card position within the one-day races and stage races sporting the rainbow jersey in addition to place a deal with street and monitor racing on the Olympic Video games. Lorena Wiebes will dominate the sprints, however watch as she continues to evolve into a serious participant (and a winner) within the hilly one-day races and stage races alike.

The workforce’s roster is basically the identical as final 12 months, with only one new signing, Femke Gerritse, who joins the workforce from Parkhotel Valkenburg. The 22-year-old will add to the workforce’s climbing strengths in hilly and mountainous stage races, becoming a member of the workforce’s different creating riders Anna Shackley, and Niamh Fisher-Black.

Visma-Lease a Bike

Marianne Vos (Picture credit score: Getty Photos Sport)
  • Greatest signing: Margaux Vigie
  • Riders to observe: Marianne Vos, Riejanne Markus and Anna Henderson
  • Notable addition: Lieke Nooijen

The Dutch workforce may have a brand new really feel in 2024 with a brand new title, new roster and new administration setup. They lacked victories on the greatest races apart from the inaugural Vuelta Femenina the place they received three levels – the opening workforce time trial and two sprints with Marianne Vos. 

Vos could not attain her prime degree constantly as she struggled with worsening ache and an absence of energy in her left leg resulting from a pinched iliac artery. She had surgical procedure twice in 2023 to handle the difficulty.

This is not to say Vos was far off the success that has seen her turn into probably the most profitable rider of all time, solely lacking out on stage wins on the Giro and Tour de France Femmes behind Lorena Wiebes and Chiara Consonni. So even at 36, count on Vos to be robust.

Other than her, the workforce will depend on Riejanne Markus as their chief on the Tour de France Femmes and hill classics, with Anna Henderson enjoying an enormous position within the Spring Classics. The Brit was sensible in opposition to the clock in 2023 with out taking a win, however did get pleasure from time within the purple jersey on the Vuelta. 

With the three established leaders, Visma-Lease a Bike have invested long-term into their cyclocross star Fem van Empel. The 21-year-old is already World Champion and is to date undefeated within the cross discipline this season. Anticipate her to make one other step up on the street in 2024 after taking a win on the Tour de l’Avenir and exhibiting indicators of power on the Giro and Tour de Romandie.  

They’ve misplaced three riders to EF Training-Cannondale in Noemi Rüegg, Kim Cadzow and Coryn Labecki, however have stored their three essential leaders. Margaux Vigie was a powerful Classics rider at LifePlus Wahoo and will work nicely with Henderson and Vos on the cobbles.  Lieke Nooijen and Mijntje Geurts have additionally been introduced in to bolster the younger expertise.

UAE Group ADQ

2023 Tour de Romandie stage 2: Silvia Persico on the rostrum as most combative rider  (Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Dominika Wlodarczyk
  • Rider to observe: Silvia Persico
  • Notable addition: Chiara Consonni

Silvia Persico returns because the chief of UAE Group ADQ for a second season having posted a gradual string of prime outcomes final 12 months, together with a signature win at De Brabantse Pijl in April. On the UAE Tour Girls, an necessary residence race for her workforce, she completed third general. She was eighth general on the Tour de France Femmes and fifth general at Tour de Romandie earlier than taking the silver medal on the UCI Gravel World Championships to showcase her skills.

Added to the squad in 2023 was fellow Italian Chiara Consonni, who had been teammates with Persico at Valcar-Journey & Service for 5 years and the duo created a stellar 1-2 punch. 

The 24-year-old dazzled for the UAE squad, taking three podiums at spring Classics, together with third at Scheldeprijs and a win at Trofee Maarten Wynants, after which was a sport changer with a victory on the ultimate stage on the Giro d’Italia Donne. She completed robust with GC at Tour of Chongming Island and second on the one-day Tour of Guangxi. 

There are 4 new riders in 2023 – Anastasia Carbonari, Tereza Neumanova, Karlijn Swinkels and Dominika Wlodarczyk, who’s the youngest at 22. Be careful for the younger Polish rider who compiled a staggering 25 prime 10s with a Continental squad final season. Wlodarczyk received a stage and the general on the under-23 Watersley Womens Problem, plus she took first or second GC locations in three different stage races. On the 1.1 GP du Morbihan Femmes, she completed third behind Grace Brown and Cédrine Kerboal. She has famous all-around talents and is a rising star.

Uno-X Mobility

Anouska Koster (Picture credit score: Alex Broadway/Getty Photos)
  • Greatest signing: Simone Boilard
  • Rider to observe: Anniina Ahtosalo
  • Notable addition: Katrine Aalerud

Uno-X have maintained their standing as a WorldTour workforce for 2024 which might be their third 12 months within the prime division. They took their first professional win by Amalie Dideriksen on the GP Eco-Struct, including to their 4 nationwide titles claimed in 2023.

Anouska Koster was a constant performer and got here near a stage win on the Tour de France Femmes on stage 4 after having fun with a stint within the Queen of the Mountains jersey.

The previous World Champion ought to play an enormous half within the Norwegian aspect’s hope to take care of their WorldTour standing once more in 2024 and compete for even greater races, alongside the skilled Maria Giulia Confalonieri and their nice younger expertise Anniina Ahtosalo.

The younger Finn Ahtosalo is among the most promising riders within the girls’s peloton and completed within the prime ten of WorldTour degree dash levels all through final season, maybe greatest exhibiting her power with a podium end at Binche Chimay Binche pour Dames. She’s each the nationwide time trial and street race champion in Finland and at 20 has heaps extra to present along with her long-term future secured at Uno-X Mobility till 2027.

New signings in Katrine Aalerud and Simone Boilard also needs to bolster the squad all year long with the previous working nicely for teammates throughout her stint at Movistar and the latter nonetheless having a lot of room to develop at solely 23 years previous. They’ve additionally introduced in Teuntje Beekhuis from Jumbo-Visma and 19-year-old Danish rider Solbjørk Minke Anderson.



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