MADRID, 16 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s road cycling team will compete in the upcoming Zurich World Championships with an “exciting team” that is a mix of youth and experience, led by veteran Mavi García, tenth in the last World Championships and sixth at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The national women’s coach, Gema Pascual, has put together a team made up of six riders and led by Mavi García, the “most outstanding national cyclist of the last decade” and the Spanish ITT champion, Mireia Benito, who will compete in the road and time trials.
In addition, the “always combative and all-terrain” Sara Martín, the current Spanish road champion, Usoa Ostolaza, and the two U-23 cyclists who were third and fourth in the recent women’s Tour de l’Avenir, Eneritz Vadillo and Paula Blasi –who will double in the U-23 time trial– complete the line-up.
The time trial will take place on Sunday 22 September from 12 noon on a 30-kilometre route. The road race, which will include the climb to Binz (4.6 kilometres at 4.5%) and then four laps of the final circuit with the climbs to Zürichbergstrasse (1.1 kilometres at 8% and maximum gradients of 15%) and Witikon (2.3 kilometres at 5.7% and maximum gradients of 9%), will be held on Saturday 28 from 12:45 p.m.
With a 154-kilometre route and a cumulative gradient of 2,400 metres, this World Championship in Zurich (Switzerland) brings together the elite and U-23 events, with only one team allowed per national team, although, despite competing together, there will be two independent podiums.