Battaglin signs two-year deal with Katusha-Alpecin
Italian leaves LottoNL-Jumbo after three seasons
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enrico Battaglin will ride for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Katusha-Alpecin next season after signing a two-year deal, the team have confirmed. The Italian is the fourth new signing for the squad after Je🅠ns Debusschere, Daniel Navarro a🦩nd Harry Tanfield.
After turning professional with the Bardiani team in 2012, Battaglin has spent the past three seasons with the Dutch 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:LottoNL-Jumbo team.
A promising young rider, he has shown flashes of brilliance but has never enjoyed a sustained period of success. At LottoNL-Jumbo he has been a solid support rider in the shorter mountains, while contesting victories in punchy finales. This season, he took his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:first win for LottoNL-Jumbo in the opening week of the Giro d'Italia.
With his move to Katusha-Alpecin, Battaglin is hoping to take another step forward in his career, particularly in the Ardennes Classics, to which his skillset is well s⛄uited.
"For sure I am happy and enthusiastic. This is a great opportunity for me. I have no bad words for my former team; on the contrary, this is just a step upwards in my career," he🍸 said.
"I want to do more than I have doneꦜ in the past. I will get more cha🍒nces in the future and I will do everything not to disappoint Team Katusha-Alpecin. The team really wanted me and this, of course, gives me wings. I hope to show nice things in the Ardennes classics, and of course, I want to win in stage races.
"I cannot wait to show what I am able to. I also love the international character♌ of Katusha-Alpecin. In that sense, I am an atypical Italian."
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As well as a potential contender for Grand Tour stages and the Ardennes Classics, the team hopes that he can provide some much-needed support for their general classification leaders🍸. Katusha-Alpecin has been lacking in that department this season and fellow new signing Navarro will play a role in shoring ✤up the GC support network.
"He is a rider who I think can win races. He showed us this year in the Giro when he won a stage that he can take on a hard stage in theಌ hills. He's a good climber, and in some stages he can be a good helper for our leaders, espe💞cially in the medium mountains," explained general manager Jose Azevedo.
"He can work in the medium mountains and he can win in the same so this shows he's a winner to us. There are many races on the calendar that can be good 🎀for him, both stage races and the classics - something like Amstel Gold Race. When you see the type of rider he is, I think he can do well."
