Ostiz has blazed by the junior ranks, along with her expertise incomes her a spot within the WorldTour as Movistar secured her signature on the finish of final yr when she was nonetheless solely 17.
This yr, her spectacular trajectory continued, changing into the primary Spanish rider to win the Junior Tour of Flanders amongst different accolades, and on Saturday she secured the title she narrowly missed in 2024.
On the Zurich World Championships, Ostiz was overwhelmed in a dash by her future Movistar teammate Cat Ferguson within the girls’s street race, however this yr the Spanish rider sped to the road from a diminished group to assert the rainbow jersey.
“It is a dream come true,” she mentioned. “I knew I needed to anticipate my likelihood proper as much as the tip and at last I may get it. So I am very pleased and I simply wish to take pleasure in it.”
Like all of the street races to this point, the junior girls’s occasion was a battle of attrition, with the peloton shrinking on each lap as riders hesitated to make use of their efforts too early, and Ostiz was assured that if she may keep within the entrance, she had the ability for a closing dash.
“I knew I needed to anticipate the end, and save my vitality, as a result of it was very a lot an elimination race, lots of people have been dropped. Lastly there have been simply 5 of us left as a result of it was such a tricky tempo, so I wished to attend for the dash,” she mentioned.
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It was a tactic that labored, and regardless of the main group of 5 slowing down and searching prone to being caught within the closing kilometre, Ostiz held on and out-powered Chantal Pegolo (Italy) and Anja Grossmann (Switzerland) for gold.
“Within the dash, I completely emptied myself,” she mentioned. “I used to be trying down and did not see any wheels coming previous me, and all I may take into consideration was that I used to be going to do it. It is an immense pleasure to put on the rainbow.”
That is the primary time Spain have gained this title for the reason that occasion began in 1997, and Ostiz praised the trouble from her teammates, who have been energetic all day and have been much more emotional than her on the end line.
Leyre Almena could not cease the tears as Ostiz donned the rainbow jersey (Picture credit score: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
“Due to the work of all my teammates, I used to be in a position to obtain this,” she mentioned. “I am very pleased. My dream has come true, and now I wish to take pleasure in this victory with all of them, with my household, and my family members.”
Ostiz has already been using as a stagiaire for Movistar, and from right here she is going to head to France to attempt to defend her European time trial title, after which see out the season with Movistar in Italy earlier than she undertakes her first season as a professional in 2026.
With Ostiz’ victory within the junior street race, silver within the time trial and Paula Blasi’s silver medal within the under-23 occasion, Spanish girls’s biking has taken a significant step ahead at this World Championships, and Spain can be hoping that success continues subsequent yr, too.
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