Three-time mountain bike marathon world champion Mona Mitterwallner is about to race on the highway for the following two years, pushed by formidable objectives. The 22-year-old Austrian rider is becoming a member of the Human Powered Well being crew, the place she is going to mix mountain bike and highway by 2026.
Mitterwallner was the seventeenth and remaining rider for the 2025 roster for the crew’s fourth season within the Girls’s WorldTour. All however one of many riders and new crew equipment was unveiled earlier this month.
Mitterwallner’s palmares embrace 5 rainbow jerseys throughout junior, U23 and elite classes, 4 elite cross-country nationwide wins, two elite XCO World Cup victories, two junior continental titles, and 45 profession race wins. She completed 18th on the Paris Olympics.
And now, she’s a brand new problem, impressed partly by the success of Puck Pieterse [Fenix-Deceuninck], a Tour de France stage winner. Mitterwallner has completed runner-up to Pieterse up to now two MTB European Championships.
“I wish to develop into the perfect bicycle owner on the planet so I’ve at all times stated highway racing is a part of my future,” Mitterwallner acknowledged in a crew launch. “It was at all times on my radar and now after the Olympics, I wished to strive one thing new. I wished to get out of my outdated routine and see if I may enhance as a rider.”
“I wished a brand new problem and to develop myself,” she famous. “I really like climbing. In MTB you’re climbing for 2 or three minutes however in highway racing you do it for over an hour. That’s one thing I wish to try to I feel I shall be good at.”
Mitterwallner’s final foray on the highway was an Eleventh-place end within the U23 European highway race received by her new teammate Silvia Zanardi.
“I’m trying ahead to stage races,” she explains. “I’m good at doing repeated efforts day after day and in MTB you don’t get that a lot. Racing full gasoline over per week is thrilling. I wish to see if I can recuperate as rapidly as I feel I can for racing the following day.”
Mitterwallner joined her new crew at a coaching camp in December.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Mona Mitterwallner to our crew for her debut season in skilled highway biking,” Ro De Jonckere, Basic Supervisor, stated. “Mona’s spectacular achievements in mountain biking showcase her distinctive expertise and dedication.”
The crew took discover of her spectacular vary of abilities.
“Her means to excel in one of the crucial demanding disciplines of biking at her younger age is a testomony to her energy and resilience,” De Jonckere added. “We’re excited to assist her as she transitions to the highway, and we’re assured her profitable mentality and flexibility will make her a formidable presence within the peloton.”
