Visma-Lease a Bike Women have bolstered their ranks for the 2025 season by signing two of the game’s prime junior skills, Imogen Wolff and just lately topped junior MTB XCO World Champion Viktória Chladonová.
Briton Wolff is because of make her debut within the yellow and black as a stagiaire this Sunday at La Choralis Fourmies Féminine, the place compatriot and fellow younger star prospect Cat Ferguson can also be as a consequence of make her first begin with Movistar.
With Chladonová and Wolff signed till 2027 on three-year offers, Visma have secured heaps of potential for the approaching seasons, alongside the expertise and brilliance of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who’s their marquee signing for 2025 onwards.
Wolff’s largest success on the highway got here in March when she soloed to victory at Piccolo Trofeo Binda, the junior model of the Women’s WorldTour race in Italy, forward of Ferguson in second. She’s additionally had huge wins on the monitor as the present junior factors race and crew pursuit world champion.
Chladonová has largely had highway success on house roads in Slovakia, the place she has dominated the junior circuit and been each junior nationwide highway race and time trial champion.
Both multi-discipline riders, Chladonová and Wolff nonetheless intend to journey cyclocross alongside highway as they progress of their improvement, with Visma’s success at combing the 2 being evident within the type of two-time CX world champ Fem van Empel finishing her first full highway season this 12 months.
“I hope to be taught as a lot as potential within the coming years, each on the highway and in cyclocross,” mentioned Wolff on the team’s website. “I just like the problem of constructing the step as much as the professionals and driving new races. I hope I can be taught loads within the peloton in the course of the races and ultimately develop as a rider to a really excessive stage.”
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“The improvement alternatives the crew provides for younger skills match my future completely. It permits me to mix my favorite self-discipline, cyclocross, with highway biking,” mentioned Chladonová, who was third at junior CX worlds in February behind Ferguson and champion Célia Gery, who has signed with FDJ-Suez.
“I’ve been driving for a small household crew for the previous few years, after which to now be a part of one of many largest WorldTour groups shall be an enormous change for me. I’m excited to have been given this chance.”
After making the step up so younger at simply 18, Visma didn’t look to place any strain on their new signings’ shoulders, with improvement and integrating Wolff and Chladonová into the WorldTour being key.
“When I first spoke with the crew, it was shortly clear that a variety of consideration can be paid to my improvement,” mentioned Wolff. “They had a transparent plan for the approaching years, with out a lot strain and with room to be taught. This appealed to me.”
“Imogen and Viktória have achieved excellent outcomes up to now years. We need each riders to slowly develop to WorldTour stage,” mentioned ladies’s Team supervisor Rutger Tijssen. “Above all, we count on them to develop and uncover what they’re good at. The huge outcomes are much less necessary within the first years.”