Human Powered Well being accomplished their girls’s WorldTour roster for the 2024 season with the additions of Ukrainian Yuliia Biriukova and Wiktoria Pikulik of Poland. The duo rounds out a wave of 9 new signings on the 16-rider US-based squad.
Wiktoria Pikulik joins older sister Daria for a household basis on the street and on the monitor. The 2 completed sixth for Poland on the Tokyo Olympic Video games as Madison companions. Each have reputations as sprinters, Wiktoria utilizing her quick end to win the 2022 Polish street race championship. Daria had a breakout season at HPH with six of the workforce’s 14 victories final season, together with a pair of WorldTour wins at Tour of Guangxi and stage 1 of Tour Down Beneath.
“My mother and father are so proud to have us on the identical workforce and for it to be within the WorldTour. We have now been racing and coaching for the reason that first day of our careers, so I’m excited to do the largest races together with her,” the youthful Pikulik sister stated on her leap to the highest tier.
“We all know one another as cyclists and folks and that’s the key. I can put out longer efforts and he or she is the higher spriI am the ice, she is the fireplace.”
Biriukova strikes from UAE Growth Staff to start her first season on the WorldTour degree. The 25-year-old climber compiled 11 particular person high 10s this previous season, together with third at Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar and sixth general on the five-day Ruta del Sol.Â
The opposite new signings for HPH embrace Paris-Roubaix Femmes runner-up Katia Ragusa, climbers Silvia Zanardi and Linda Zanetti, sprinters MaĂ«lle GrossetĂŞte and Romy Kasper in addition to US veterans Krista Doebel-Hickok and Ruth Edwards, who carry GC skills and management for a well-rounded arsenal.Â
Returning riders embrace French Champion Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Henrietta Christie, Barbara Malcotti, Marit Raaijmakers, Lily Williams and Alice Wooden. On the administration facet, HPH signed former World Champion Giorgia Bronzini as a brand new workforce director alongside Clark Sheehan and Efficiency Supervisor Kenny Latomme.
“We have now constructed an thrilling roster of athletes and workers forward of the 2024 season,” stated Normal Supervisor Ro de Jonckere. “We see an ideal basis to construct upon with the workforce and our riders creating 12 months over 12 months, alongside the enlargement of ladies’s biking.”
Among the many departures from Human Powered Well being within the new season embrace a trio of U23 riders from the US – Katie Clouse, Kaia Schmid and Makayla MacPherson – in addition to German time trial champion Mike Kröger, Japanese street race champion Eri Yonamine and Antri Christoforou, who doubled with nationwide titles in Cyprus in street race and time trial.Â
Like final season, Human Powered Well being will ship a full squad to Australia to start the UCI Ladies’s WorldTour calendar at Santos Tour Down Beneath and Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Highway Race. In February, the main focus shifts to Asia for the UAE Tour after which to Europe for the spring Classics.
