The Women’s WorldTour season will get underway on the Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Road Race in Australia, however not less than six of the top-tier groups have dedicated to additionally racing on the second version of the three-race Garden Hotels-Luxcom Challenge Mallorca Femenina held from January 25-27 on the Spanish island.
WorldTour groups which have confirmed their participation embody Movistar, Uno-X Mobility, Human Powered Health, Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto, UAE Team ADQ and Ceratizit-WNT.
“After final 12 months’s success, with the premiere of the primary Garden Hotels-Luxcom Challenge Ciclista Mallorca for girls, the very best riders of the worldwide peloton will begin the season on the island,” the organisers mentioned in a press launch.
“Over three days, a number of the greatest groups of the worldwide ladies’s peloton will begin the season in Mallorca.”
This is the primary 12 months that the ladies’s groups shall be classed into three tiers with the introduction of the UCI Women’s ProfessionalTeams in 2025. The three tiers of groups – WorldTeams, ProfessionalTeams and Continental Teams – will convey the construction of girls’s skilled groups consistent with the lads’s groups.
Organisers of the Challenge Mallorca Femenina have confirmed that there shall be 5 ProfessionalTeams on the beginning line and 7 Continental Teams, together with the Spanish National Team.
2024 marked the inaugural version of the Mallorca Challenge Femenina, a three-day occasion that features Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi, Trofeo Palma and Trofeo Binissalem – Andratx.
Noemi Rüegg took the primary win for the newly-formed Continental crew EF Education-Cannondale on the Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi, whereas her teammate Magdeleine Vallieres soloed to victory on the Trofeo Palma Femina. Eleonora Gasparrini of UAE Team ADQ took the win on the ultimate day of racing.
In 2025, EF Education-Oatly returns having upgraded to the brand new ProfessionalTeam standing and with a sequence of modifications to their crew roster, however will possible purpose to roll out the season with one other sequence of victories, particularly because the occasion coincides with their coaching camp in Mallorca simply forward of the races.
WorldTour Teams
- Movistar Team
- Uno X Mobility
- Human Powered Health
- Canyon-SRAM Racing
- Uae Team ADQ
- Ceratizit- WNT Procycling Team
ProfessionalTeams
- EF Education-Oatly
- Cofidis Women Team
- Laboral Kutka-fundacion Euskadi
- Arkea-B&B Hotels
- Winspace
Continental Teams
- Eneicat-CM Team
- Aromitalia 3T Vaiano
- Team Dukla Praha
- Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
- Das-Hutchinson Brother
- Proximus Cyclis CT
- BePink-Bongioanni
- Spanish National Team
