Movistar have introduced the signing of Swiss rider Marlen Reusser on a three-year deal.
The triple European time trial champion is the Spanish squad’s fourth signing for 2025 following strikes for Ana Magalhães, Carys Lloyd and junior world champion Cat Ferguson.
Reusser is about to fit in as one of many leaders on the Ladies’s WorldTour squad alongside Liane Lippert, Floortje Mackaij and Arlenis Sierra after shifting on from SD Worx-Protime, the place she’s spent the previous three seasons.
“The concept of being a part of the Movistar Group is one thing we’ve got labored on collectively for a very long time, one thing I’ve been dreaming about,” Reusser mentioned. “I’ve been excited for fairly a while and now we are able to lastly do it.
“We share the identical method about what we are able to obtain collectively, and I sincerely consider that it’s the proper place for me – the place with the required spirit to develop and attain my full potential.”
Together with three European time trial titles, Reusser’s palmarès is stuffed out with GC wins on the Tour de Suisse and Itzulia and two stage wins on the Tour de France Femmes in addition to her greatest one-day success, the 2023 Gent-Wevelgem.
She began her 2024 marketing campaign with an total victory on the Setmana Valenciana in February, however the latter half of her season was derailed by sickness, together with her most up-to-date race being the Swiss Nationwide Championships again in June.
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“The sickness I’ve suffered has made me query many issues,” Reusser mentioned. “I am very grateful to Group SD Worx-Protime, the place I’ve spent the final three years. They’ve proven me all their help, and I really feel huge gratitude in the direction of them.
“I am very optimistic and I face the long run with nice aspirations. I’ve all the time been somebody who has fought to enhance daily, and I really feel that I’ve not but reached my full potential. I believe I’ve the talents, each bodily and psychological, and the fitting atmosphere at my aspect to go even additional.
“I need to work laborious, have that dedication, and likewise assist the group to take care of that constructive dynamic, additionally create alternatives for everybody and be capable of generate a race mechanic that permits us all to get pleasure from.
“I’m satisfied that success can be partly the results of all that: expertise, in fact, but additionally having enjoyable, the love we put into issues and present in the direction of others; in addition to, that dedication. I’m trying ahead to with the ability to begin working in the direction of these targets and to get pleasure from these subsequent three years with Movistar.”
Reusser’s transfer to Movistar marks one other main offseason loss for SD Worx-Protime. She joins Demi Vollering and Lidl-Trek-bound Niamh Fisher-Black on the outgoing record whereas Christine Majerus has hung up her wheels in retirement.
The Dutch squad has moved to carry two-time world champion Anna van der Breggen again from retirement whereas additionally signing up Tour of Chongming Island champion Marta Lach from Ceratizit-WNT, New Zealander Mikayla Harvey from UAE Group ADQ and Skylar Schneider, who raced on the group between 2018 and 2020.
