The Canyon-SRAM introduced on Wednesday that Kasia Niewiadoma has ended her 2024 season and won’t compete on this weekend’s UCI Gravel World Championships.
The Polish rider gained the Tour de France Femmes and La Flèche Wallonne through the highway season and completed second on the Tour of Flanders and eighth on the Olympic Video games in Paris.
“After such an intense yr, or as an instance summertime, crammed with a lot of feelings, ups and downs, I made a decision to shut my 2024 season now and skip defending my [gravel world] title,” Niewiadoma mentioned within the social media publish.
“I need to concentrate on restoration, time spent with my shut ones, and celebrating all the things that occurred this yr! I want all of the contributors loads of luck, and thanks for the immense assist I have been getting from all of you!”
Niewiadoma gained the Tour de France Femmes by simply 4 seconds, holding off a long-range assault by 2023 Tour de France winner Demi Vollering on the ultimate stage to the summit of l’Alpe d’Huez.
The victory adopted a renewed vigour for the 30-year-old after her world title within the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships, the place she acquired the higher of Vollering at Silvia Persico (Italy) in her first elite ladies’s gravel race.
She went on to win the Huge Sugar gravel race on the finish of final season, calling the race “insanely exhausting”, displaying that her new coaching schedule that she had adopted was working.
After her first Classics win in 5 years at La Flèche Wallonne, she mentioned she hoped it might encourage individuals to maintain pursuing success.
“It is all concerning the religion … if you understand what you are able to and you do not let anybody make you’re feeling much less or in the event you do not let any failure make you’re feeling like you do not deserve one thing then something’s potential,” she mentioned earlier this yr.
Get limitless entry to all of our protection of the 2024 UCI Gravel World Championships – together with breaking information and evaluation reported by our journalists on the bottom from the elite ladies’s and elite males’s occasions because it occurs and extra. Discover out extra.
