EF-Oatly-Cannondale confirmed they may subject a roster of 17 riders for his or her second season on the Continental degree, with Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner and former Paris-Roubaix winner Alison Jackson returning to anchor the squad’s Grand Tour and one-day race aspirations in 2025.
Veteran Sarah Roy, who turns 39 in February, strikes from Cofids to contribute as a highway captain. The previous Australian highway champion seems to make an affect within the Spring Classics and lead a powerful contingency of younger riders in stage races.
Half of the workforce enters the second season for the EF-Oatly squad underneath the age of 24, together with newcomer Cédrine Kerbaol, who amassed 5 victories in 2024 together with a hilly stage 6 on the Tour de France Femmes forward of Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike).
“That is my dream roster as a result of we now have a very younger group but additionally a very skilled group. The workforce is a mixture of characters and nationalities, a mixture of strengths, and all these ladies are open to studying,” Esra Tromp, workforce common supervisor, stated in a press launch.
“Our workforce contains completely different characters, balancing power on the bike and off the bike. I’m actually enthusiastic about this upcoming season, about the entire races. I like to see how the younger ones develop.”
For his or her debut season, the EF-Oatly-Cannondale squad landed 14 highway victories in 2024, with a trio of Grand Tour stage wins – Faulkner and Jackson on the Vuelta a España and Clara Edmond on the Giro d’Italia Ladies – then double gold medals by Faulkner on the Paris Olympic Video games.
The stability of recent riders for subsequent 12 months are all 23 or youthful – Nina Berton, Henrietta Christie, Alex Volstad and Babette van der Wolf. Christie spent the final three seasons on the WorldTour degree with Human Powered Well being, going seventh total on the 2023 Tour Down Below. Volstad is the youngest at simply 18 and the Canadian gained each the junior criterium and highway race titles final 12 months. Each Berton and Van der Wolf are versatile riders with expertise in one-day racing.
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They be a part of a powerful group of returning kids who had breakout seasons final 12 months – New Zealand time trial champion Kim Cadzow, Tour de Feminin stage winner Mirre Knaven (driving for AG Insurance coverage-Soudal NXTG), Swiss highway champion Noemi Rüegg and Magdeleine Vallieres, who gained Trofeo Palma Femina. Along with nationwide titles, Cadzow gained the GC at Trofeo Ponente in Rosa and Rũegg gained the 2024 European season opener at Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia.
“We’ve a very stable group for each form of parcours. We’re tremendous balanced and we now have extra depth than in 2024,” Tromp stated. ”We need to do higher within the classics, in order that’s a aim for subsequent 12 months and that is additionally what we looked for when it comes to riders
“I believe we have been actually profitable in constructing a workforce. What I need to construct is a good stronger, extra balanced workforce that may present extra power within the finales of each form of race. If it’s a climbing race or a classics race or a dash race, I need to be extra current there. That is what we have been looking for on this 2025 workforce. Our depth is our power.”
Rounding out the roster are confirmed teammates from 2024, together with Letizia Borghesi, who was one of many workforce’s most constant performers with 19 top-10s final season. Edmond earned her first profession victory in a giant method final season, going solo for 47km to win stage 4 of the Giro. Megan Armitage, Veronica Ewers, Lotta Henttala and Nina Kessler additionally return.
Departed from the squad are Coryn Labecki and Elizabeth Stannard, each retiring this 12 months, Clara Koppenburg, who strikes to Cofidis, and USA’s 2023 U23 highway champion Natalie Quinn, who expects to signal with a brand new workforce later this month.
“I like to see how the younger ones develop. I believe they may step up actually shortly as a result of they’ve actually good examples. They’ve the Olympic champion within the workforce, they’ve Grand Tour stage winners of their workforce. We’re a workforce that basically desires to race for one another,” Tromp added.
EF-Oatly-Cannondale roster 2025
- Megan Armitage (IRE)
- Nina Berton (LUX)
- Letizia Borghesi (ITA)
- Kim Cadzow (NZL)
- Henrietta Christie (NZL)
- Clara Emond (CAN)
- Veronica Ewers (USA)
- Kristen Faulkner (USA)
- Lotta Henttala (FIN)
- Alison Jackson (CAN)
- Cédrine Kerbaol (FRA)
- Nina Kessler (NED)
- Mirre Knaven (NED)
- Sarah Roy (AUS)
- Noemi Rüegg (SUI)
- Magdeleine Vallieres (CAN)
- Babette van der Wolf (NED)
- Alex Volstad (CAN)
