Former triple World Time Trial Champion and Hour File holder Ellen van Dijk is ready to proceed her profession for at the very least one other 12 months at Lidl-Trek.
The 37-year-old has prolonged her contract by means of to the top of 2025, the crew mentioned in a press launch.
Van Dijk has already triumphed in 68 skilled races, together with the Tour of Flanders again in 2014, the European Championships highway race in 2021 and at least 40 particular person time trials, her whole towards the clock prolonged this 12 months by successful the TT in each the Vuelta a Extremadura and Tour de Normandie this spring.
She additionally lately got here second within the European Championships time trial, a race she received 4 occasions on the trot from 2015 to 2019, and eighth within the equal occasion on the Highway World Championships, which she conquered in 2013, 2021 and 2022.
An ultra-versatile rider who took sixth on this 12 months’s Paris-Roubaix, because the crew press launch said, “Since giving beginning to her son, Faas, one 12 months in the past, she has labored tirelessly on her comeback, refusing to let even a damaged ankle decelerate her objective of competing on the Paris Olympics. Her resilience and drive stay as sturdy as ever.”
Speaking to Cyclingnews this summer season, Van Dijk mentioned that she “thought it was throughout” when she broke her ankle in June, however she fought again determinedly to participate each within the Paris Video games and the Tour de France Femmes. “Strolling is tougher than biking, but it surely’s not about strolling,” she defined in the identical interview.
A part of the Lidl-Trek crew ever because it started in 2019, Van Dijk mentioned she had obtained glorious help from the crew throughout her being pregnant and harm and that “this crew actually appears like my residence, it is the place I belong.”
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“I’ve put numerous vitality into coming again [this season] and I believed it was a disgrace to solely use that [energy] for one 12 months.
“I really feel like I need to proceed, I nonetheless have the motivation, and I do know I’ve extra to provide Lidl-Trek.”
“Ellen just isn’t solely an exceptional athlete but in addition a useful presence throughout the crew. She passes on an unimaginable quantity of data to our youthful riders, exhibiting them what it takes to compete on the highest stage,” commented Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, Lidl-Trek sports activities director in the identical press launch.
“Having her on board for an additional 12 months is a big increase.”
