EF-Oatly-Cannondale confirmed they’ll discipline a roster of 17 riders for his or her second season on the Continental degree, with Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner and former Paris-Roubaix winner Alison Jackson returning to anchor the squad’s Grand Tour and one-day race aspirations in 2025.
Veteran Sarah Roy, who turns 39 in February, strikes from Cofids to contribute as a highway captain. The previous Australian highway champion seems to be to make an influence within the Spring Classics and lead a robust contingency of younger riders in stage races.
Half of the group enters the second season for the EF-Oatly squad beneath the age of 24, together with newcomer Cédrine Kerbaol, who amassed 5 victories in 2024 together with a hilly stage 6 on the Tour de France Femmes forward of Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike).
“That is my dream roster as a result of we’ve got a extremely younger group but in addition a extremely skilled group. The group is a mixture of characters and nationalities, a mixture of strengths, and all these girls are open to studying,” Esra Tromp, group normal supervisor, mentioned in a press launch.
“Our group consists of completely different characters, balancing power on the bike and off the bike. I’m actually enthusiastic about this upcoming season, about the entire races. I like to see how the younger ones develop.”
For his or her debut season, the EF-Oatly-Cannondale squad landed 14 highway victories in 2024, with a trio of Grand Tour stage wins – Faulkner and Jackson on the Vuelta a España and Clara Edmond on the Giro d’Italia Girls – then double gold medals by Faulkner on the Paris Olympic Video games.
The stability of recent riders for subsequent 12 months are all 23 or youthful – Nina Berton, Henrietta Christie, Alex Volstad and Babette van der Wolf. Christie spent the final three seasons on the WorldTour degree with Human Powered Well being, going seventh total on the 2023 Tour Down Underneath. Volstad is the youngest at simply 18 and the Canadian received each the junior criterium and highway race titles final 12 months. Each Berton and Van der Wolf are versatile riders with expertise in one-day racing.
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They be a part of a robust group of returning children who had breakout seasons final 12 months – New Zealand time trial champion Kim Cadzow, Tour de Feminin stage winner Mirre Knaven (using for AG Insurance coverage-Soudal NXTG), Swiss highway champion Noemi Rüegg and Magdeleine Vallieres, who received Trofeo Palma Femina. Along with nationwide titles, Cadzow received the GC at Trofeo Ponente in Rosa and Rũegg received the 2024 European season opener at Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia.
“We’ve got a extremely strong group for each form of parcours. We’re tremendous balanced and we’ve got extra depth than in 2024,” Tromp mentioned. ”We need to do higher within the classics, in order that’s a purpose for subsequent 12 months and that is additionally what we looked for when it comes to riders
“I believe we had been actually profitable in constructing a group. What I need to construct is a fair stronger, extra balanced group that can present extra pressure within the finales of each form of race. If it’s a climbing race or a classics race or a dash race, I need to be extra current there. That is what we had been trying to find on this 2025 group. Our depth is our power.”
Rounding out the roster are confirmed teammates from 2024, together with Letizia Borghesi, who was one of many group’s most constant performers with 19 top-10s final season. Edmond earned her first profession victory in an enormous means final season, going solo for 47km to win stage 4 of the Giro. Megan Armitage, Veronica Ewers, Lotta Henttala and Nina Kessler additionally return.
Departed from the squad are Coryn Labecki and Elizabeth Stannard, each retiring this 12 months, Clara Koppenburg, who strikes to Cofidis, and USA’s 2023 U23 highway champion Natalie Quinn, who expects to signal with a brand new group later this month.
“I like to see how the younger ones develop. I believe they’ll step up actually rapidly as a result of they’ve actually good examples. They’ve the Olympic champion within the group, they’ve Grand Tour stage winners of their group. We’re a group that basically needs to race for one another,” Tromp added.
EF-Oatly-Cannondale roster 2025
- Megan Armitage (IRE)
- Nina Berton (LUX)
- Letizia Borghesi (ITA)
- Kim Cadzow (NZL)
- Henrietta Christie (NZL)
- Clara Emond (CAN)
- Veronica Ewers (USA)
- Kristen Faulkner (USA)
- Lotta Henttala (FIN)
- Alison Jackson (CAN)
- Cédrine Kerbaol (FRA)
- Nina Kessler (NED)
- Mirre Knaven (NED)
- Sarah Roy (AUS)
- Noemi Rüegg (SUI)
- Magdeleine Vallieres (CAN)
- Babette van der Wolf (NED)
- Alex Volstad (CAN)