It’s been greater than three years since Anna van der Breggen final took half in a highway race, however the former World and Olympic champion is ready to pin on a race quantity once more as we speak in Spain.
The SD Worx-ProTime racer will likely be participating within the four-day Setmana Ciclista Volta Femenina de la Comunitat Valenciana, which begins on Thursday 13 in Alzira and finishes on Sunday in Alicante.
According to a workforce press launch, the Dutch star beforehand didn’t wish to put a date on her comeback, however a check at her final coaching camp confirmed she is able to race.
Now 34 years previous, Van der Breggen rode her final race on the 2021 World Championships in Leuven and has spent the final three years as a sports activities director with Team SD Worx – Protime.
“I had a very good winter and over the last coaching camp in Javea I seen once more that I’ve made strides;” Van der Breggen, a former World and Olympic Champion who had a massively profitable profession, mentioned within the press launch.
“I’m able to experience a race once more and am wanting ahead to it immensely. In that respect, the Setmana Valenciana being within the space the place we now have our coaching camp makes it a perfect course to begin once more.’
Besides Anna van der Breggen, SD Worx-Protime can even deliver Steffi Häberlin, Mikayla Harvey, Mischa Bredewold and Laura Stigger to the startline of the Setmana Valenciana this Thursday.
Featuring a rugged course all through, Thursday’s opening stage of the Setmana is a 112-kilometre hilly trek between Alzira and Gandia within the japanese aspect of the province. The Cat. 2 Alto de Barx, 18 kilometres from the end, is prone to break up the sector and maybe lay the bottom for a small bunch dash to determine the primary day’s chief.
Setmana Valenciana is a race by which Van der Breggen has good recollections. In her solely earlier participation again in 2020, she each gained a stage and the general classification, one thing which could have probably performed no hurt to her motivation to get her racing wheels in movement once more there, 5 years later.
