MADRID, 13 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Young Spanish cyclist Paula Ostiz, European junior time trial champion and currently with Cafés Baqué, will ride for the Movistar Team from August 2025 until the end of the 2028 season.
According to the ‘Telefónico’ team, the Navarrese will be the first from Cafés Baqué, a project supported by the Abarca Sports structure, to make the leap to the WorldTour after signing a contract that will see her test with the ‘azules’ in August 2025, to form, during the following three campaigns (2026-28), part of their team as a full member.
The new European time trial champion, who won the title on Wednesday in Limburg (Belgium) as a first-year junior rider, has caused a sensation on the international scene and her great track record in 2024 includes the overall victory in the Watersley Challenge, the most prestigious stage race on the junior calendar. In addition, she authoritatively claimed the two Spanish champion titles (TT and line) last July in Avilés.
“The experience with the team at the January training camp in Jávea was very good; they treated me very well, I was able to see what the team was like from within and I really liked the attitude of my teammates. I have kept in touch all year with ‘Sebas’ (Unzué) and the ‘nave’, everything has been easy and that is greatly appreciated. Being a home team I feel more supported,” celebrated Ostiz.
The young Spanish cyclist believes that she has arrived in her “best form at both the European Championships” and the World Championships, where she would like to do “very well”. “Since I was little, I have always dreamed of fighting for that rainbow jersey; I have always told my family that we can fight for it one day. Let’s see if we can achieve it, or at least bring home a medal like the gold from the time trial in Belgium, which I am so proud of. Zurich will be a very tough circuit, a race by elimination, and I think that we will have a great team in the national team. I face it with great desire and enthusiasm,” she added.
For his part, the sports director, Sebastián Unzué, recalled that “due to geographical proximity” they have known Paula Ostiz “since she was very young.” “We had the opportunity to meet as cadets, and in this first year as a junior she has been in a certain way ‘incorporated’ into the structure: training camps, equipment… She knows the environment and her teammates, which will make her transition easier,” he said.
“We believe he is one of the greatest talents of his generation, as demonstrated by his results, especially the gold medal in the time trial at the European Championships, which puts him at the top of the category. We are confident that he will be able to grow step by step in our team and making the step up in August will make things even easier for his first full year in the WorldTour in 2026,” he concluded.