Three-time mountain bike marathon world champion Mona Mitterwallner is about to race on the street for the following two years, pushed by bold targets. The 22-year-old Austrian rider is becoming a member of the Human Powered Health crew, the place she is going to mix mountain bike and street by way of 2026.
Mitterwallner was the seventeenth and ultimate rider for the 2025 roster for the crew’s fourth season within the Women’s WorldTour. All however one of many riders and new crew package was unveiled earlier this month.
Mitterwallner’s palmares embrace 5 rainbow jerseys throughout junior, U23 and elite classes, 4 elite cross-country nationwide wins, two elite XCO World Cup victories, two junior continental titles, and 45 profession race wins. She completed 18th on the Paris Olympics.
And now, she’s taking a look at a brand new problem, impressed partially by the success of Puck Pieterse [Fenix-Deceuninck], a Tour de France stage winner. Mitterwallner has completed runner-up to Pieterse up to now two MTB European Championships.
“I wish to grow to be one of the best bicycle owner on the earth so I’ve at all times stated street racing is a part of my future,” Mitterwallner said in a crew launch. “It was at all times on my radar and now after the Olympics, I needed to strive one thing new. I needed to get out of my previous routine and see if I might enhance as a rider.”
“I needed a brand new problem and to develop myself,” she famous. “I like climbing. In MTB you’re climbing for 2 or three minutes however in street racing you do it for over an hour. That’s one thing I wish to try to I feel I might be good at.”
Mitterwallner’s final foray on the street was an Eleventh-place end within the U23 European street race gained by her new teammate Silvia Zanardi.
“I’m trying ahead to stage races,” she explains. “I’m good at doing repeated efforts day after day and in MTB you don’t get that a lot. Racing full fuel over every week is thrilling. I wish to see if I can recuperate as rapidly as I feel I can for racing the following day.”
Mitterwallner joined her new crew at a coaching camp in December.
“We are thrilled to welcome Mona Mitterwallner to our crew for her debut season in skilled street biking,” Ro De Jonckere, General Manager, stated. “Mona’s spectacular achievements in mountain biking showcase her distinctive expertise and dedication.”
The crew took discover of her spectacular vary of expertise.
“Her capability to excel in one of the demanding disciplines of biking at her younger age is a testomony to her power and resilience,” De Jonckere added. “We are excited to assist her as she transitions to the street, and we’re assured her profitable mentality and flexibility will make her a formidable presence within the peloton.”
