‘A pure expertise’ – Ally Wollaston indicators two-year cope with FDJ-SUEZ starting in 2025
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Ally Wollaston will depart AG Insurance coverage-Soudal after signing a brand new two-year contract with FDJ-SUEZ starting in 2025 by way of to the top of 2026. The New Zealander’s goals will likely be to hunt stage wins and help the crew’s leaders within the main occasions on the WorldTour.
“I am extraordinarily grateful for the chance to affix FDJ Suez and am actually trying ahead to the following two years as I proceed to develop on the street, exploring my full potential and studying from the crew leaders, Wollaston mentioned.
“I consider we could be aggressive throughout all parcours subsequent 12 months, and I am excited to play my half.”
Wollaston signed her first skilled contract with the event crew NXTG Racing in August of 2021 the place she then spent one full season in 2022 earlier than crew modified names to AG Insurance coverage-Soudal in 2023 after which acquired a WorldTour licence for the primary time this season.
The 23-year-old from Auckland, New Zealand, has had a profitable profession with eight skilled wins within the final three seasons. Her achievements embrace the general victory at Pageant Elsy Jacobs and general podiums on the Lotto Belgium Tour and Bretagne Women Tour.
She has additionally secured a stage win on the Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath in January, which was her first WorldTour victory, and a podium on the Giro d’Italia Ladies final 12 months. She additionally gained the New Zealand street race title in 2023.
In June, Wollaston gained two levels of Volta Ciclista a Catalunya forward of Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike), the place she additionally gained the most effective sprinter classification.
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A multi-discipline rider in street and observe racing, Wollaston represented New Zealand in the course of the Olympic Video games in Paris, the place she gained the silver medal within the Staff Pursuit and bronze within the Omnium.
Stephen Delcourt, common supervisor at FDJ-SUEZ, mentioned the crew has been maintaining an in depth eye on Wollaston’s progress during the last three seasons and so they consider that she is a “pure expertise.”
“FDJ-SUEZ may be very proud to announce the arrival of Ally Wollaston beneath the crew’s jersey for the following two seasons,” Delcourt mentioned.
“Now we have been watching Ally’s rise over the previous few seasons, impressed by her pace, versatility and attacking spirit. Ally has demonstrated her means to shine at the most effective degree and may have an ideal function to play for us.”
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