Aus🎉tralian criterium champion joins U𒉰S team for 2016
Kimberly Wells had a great time on the podium infront of the big෴ crowd (Image credit: Mark Gunter - markgunter.com.au)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kimberley Wells will ride for the Colavita Bianchi p/b Vittoria team in 2016 with the Australian to focus on success in National Racing Calendar (NRC) and Nation⛎al Criterium Calendar (NCC) events. Wells spent this season with the Australian National Road Series (NRS) team High5 Dream Team and the national team who she joine🅷d for an extended sprint of racing in Europe.
30-year-old Wells won a stage at the Trophée d'Or Féminin and enjoyed top-ten results at Route de France, Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche and the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen after starting her season with her 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:second national criterium title.
"I am so excited to be racing for Colavita Bianchi back in the US. I love the USA road racing scene and🃏 can't wait to be a part of the Colavita Bianchi family," said Wells in a statement fꦇrom her new team.
Wells spent the majori🐟ty of 2013 racing in the US having only seriously taken up racing in 201💝2 with medical studies that have seen her become a registered MD taking priority. Her 2014 season was wrecked by pneumonia with Wells unable to defend her national criterium title but 2015 has seen a return a form for the sprinter.
Colavita Bianchi's sport director Mary Zider described she f🅠irst saw Wells' potential in 2013 a🎐nd to sign her for the forthcoming season was a coup for the team.
"I am thrilled to have Kimberley joiningꦿ the team. I had the opportunity to race with her a few times back in 2013 with Colavita|EspnW (Wells' was a guest rider on the team) and from that moment I knew she was the full-package and a proven leader," Zider said. "Anyon൩e who has competed against Wells knows she's one of the fastest females in the world. I'm just glad we're supporting her and not chasing her."
Wells will join compatriot Lauretta Hanson on the team next season who have also recruited Gretchen Stumhofe🐬r and Great Brit🀅ain's Emma Grant, and Zider believes the quartet can fire the team to multiple successes across 2016.
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"The🧔se four riders have the ability to win any race on the calendar. No doubt the 2016 season will prove to be exciting every time the team toes the line," she added.
