Lidl-Trek confirmed multi-discipline veteran Lucinda Model has signed a contract extension which can maintain her as “an essential pillar of the staff” by means of 2025. The Dutch rider, who’s in her fourth season with the WorldTour staff, will mix her function as street captain for Lidl-Trek with a cyclocross programme on the Baloise-Trek Lions staff for 2 extra seasons.
“I believe most essential is that I really feel actually like I’ve discovered my place throughout the Lidl-Trek staff, and I’m extremely completely happy right here so, in fact, it solely made sense to remain within the Trek household for the following two years,” Model stated in a staff assertion.
“Having the ability to mix street racing and cyclo-cross with Lidl-Trek and Baloise-Trek Lions is known as a privilege. The help I obtain from either side, who work tremendous effectively collectively to make it occur, is unimaginable. It gives me with an exquisite setting and an ideal stability and freedom to go between the 2 disciplines.”
Off-road success hit a excessive in 2021 when she received the World and European titles in cyclocross. In seven world championship appearances in cyclocross, Model has by no means completed outdoors the highest 4, final season using to bronze on house turf in Hoogerheide.
Most lately Model received her first street stage of the yr within the time trial at Baloise Women Tour, which vaulted her to the general title. It was additionally the primary time the 34-year-old had received a race in opposition to the clock in her 15-year profession.
Model makes her first look on the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, taking the beginning line alongside six different teammates with the beginning on Sunday in Clermont-Ferrand.
“I’m as bold as ever. The game has grown a lot since I first turned skilled and there may be nonetheless a lot additional to go and a lot extra I wish to obtain in my profession, and a type of large objectives shall be ticked off quickly once I be a part of my teammates for this yr’s Tour de France Femmes,” she famous.
Model goes into the eight-day Grand Tour in high street type, having earned 4 podiums in her week of racing on the Baloise Women Tour. Within the spring she had a pair of high 12s in Paris-Roubaix Femmes and Tour of Flanders.
“Lucinda has grow to be an essential pillar in our staff, and we’re extremely happy that we’ve got discovered an settlement to resume her contract and that she has re-signed for 2 extra years,” Sport Director Ina Teutenberg stated. “She is a real asset to the staff, a rider who’s able to each successful in her personal proper and benefiting from alternatives once they come up but additionally serving to information her teammates to victory as effectively.”