Canyon-Sram have introduced the signing of Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig on a two-year deal for 2025 onwards.
The Danish rider has spent the previous 5 seasons with French squad FDJ-Suez and on Thursday she introduced on Fb that her time on the workforce can be coming to an finish.
Uttrup-Ludwig, who gained a stage of the Tour Down Beneath and completed prime 10 on the Tour de France Femmes this yr, will now be part of Kasia Niewiadoma among the many predominant leaders on the German Girls’s WorldTour squad.
The 29-year-old can rely 18 wins amongst her palmarès, together with a stage on the 2022 Tour, 4 Danish nationwide titles, and the general on the 2022 Tour of Scandinavia.
“I’m immensely trying ahead to becoming a member of Canyon-Sram Racing for 2025 and onward,” Uttrup Ludwig mentioned. “I really like the workforce’s aggressive racing fashion and never being afraid to lose. I’m positive I’ll match proper in with this sort of racing. That’s precisely the kind of rider I purpose [for] and wish to be.
“2024 has been a troublesome season for me. A number of crashes and illness. I actually wish to put all this behind me and get again to my outdated type. On this means, I can contribute to an excellent dynamic workforce and attain our objectives collectively.”
She added that she’ll be trying to construct on a difficult season, saying she will be able to bounce again from powerful occasions, as she proved on the 2022 Tour de France Femmes.
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“Generally you acquire energy by means of arduous occasions. For instance, within the first Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, many of the workforce crashed on stage 2, and we misplaced a variety of time within the common classification. However the day after, we managed to bounce again and win the stage. That is one of many proudest moments of my profession. By no means quit,” Uttrup Ludwig mentioned.
“It is clear from my talks with the workforce that the help from the workforce and its employees may be very skilled, and I really feel assured that they’ll assist me in my additional growth as a rider. Carry on 2025,” she concluded.
The signing of Uttrup Ludwig is the primary for Canyon-Sram forward of 2025, with the workforce waving goodbye to Swiss racer Elise Chabbey, who will transfer in the wrong way.
Alongside the retiring Olympic and Worlds time trial champion Grace Brown, Uttrup Ludwig represents a significant lack of expertise for the French squad
Nonetheless, with Chabbey approaching board and Juliette Labous additionally becoming a member of from DSM-Firmenich PostNL – to not point out the closely rumoured signing of Demi Vollering – FDJ-Suez seem to have moved shortly to plug these outgoing holes within the roster.
