Former triple World Time Trial Champion and Hour Record holder Ellen van Dijk is about to proceed her profession for at the very least one other 12 months at Lidl-Trek.
The 37-year-old has prolonged her contract via to the top of 2025, the workforce mentioned in a press launch.
Van Dijk has already triumphed in 68 skilled races, together with the Tour of Flanders again in 2014, the European Championships highway race in 2021 and a minimum of 40 particular person time trials, her whole towards the clock prolonged this 12 months by profitable the TT in each the Vuelta a Extremadura and Tour de Normandie this spring.
She additionally just lately got here second within the European Championships time trial, a race she gained 4 occasions on the trot from 2015 to 2019, and eighth within the equal occasion on the Road World Championships, which she conquered in 2013, 2021 and 2022.
An ultra-versatile rider who took sixth on this 12 months’s Paris-Roubaix, because the workforce press launch acknowledged, “Since giving beginning to her son, Faas, one 12 months in the past, she has labored tirelessly on her comeback, refusing to let even a damaged ankle decelerate her objective of competing on the Paris Olympics. Her resilience and drive stay as sturdy as ever.”
Talking to Cyclingnews this summer season, Van Dijk mentioned that she “thought it was throughout” when she broke her ankle in June, however she fought again determinedly to participate each within the Paris Games and the Tour de France Femmes. “Walking is tougher than biking, however it’s not about strolling,” she defined in the identical interview.
Part of the Lidl-Trek workforce ever because it started in 2019, Van Dijk mentioned she had acquired glorious help from the workforce throughout her being pregnant and harm and that “this workforce actually seems like my residence, it is the place I belong.”
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“I’ve put a number of vitality into coming again [this season] and I believed it was a disgrace to solely use that [energy] for one 12 months.
“I really feel like I need to proceed, I nonetheless have the motivation, and I do know I’ve extra to present Lidl-Trek.”
“Ellen is just not solely an exceptional athlete but in addition a useful presence throughout the workforce. She passes on an unimaginable quantity of information to our youthful riders, exhibiting them what it takes to compete on the highest stage,” commented Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, Lidl-Trek sports activities director in the identical press launch.
“Having her on board for an additional 12 months is a large enhance.”