Visma-Lease a Bike sign Italian sprinter Martina Fidanza in 'perfect fit' for 2025
Dua💮l stage winner at Thüringen Ladies 💦Tour signs two-year contract to support Vos and Ferrand-Prévot

Italian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Martina Fidanza was seen as "a perfect fit" for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Visma-Lease a Bike and signed t✨he young sprinter to a two-year contract. Fidanza has spent the past three seasons with Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling and will move to the Dutch Women's WorldTour squad to start 2025.
The 24-year-old won back-to-bac💛k stages at Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour this season, holding off seasoned veterans like Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek), Barbara Guarischi (SD Worx-Protime) and Tiffany Cromwell (Cayon-SRAM) in bunch sprints. She also had three podiums in one-day races in late spring, including a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:win at the GP Mazda Schelkens.
Fidanza is a proven winner on the track, having won junior World titles for Italy in Team Pursuit and Scratch 💙ra✨ces, and has two elite women's World titles in Scratch and one in Team Pursuit.
"Martina has already achieved some good results. We believe that we can develop her into a sprinter capable of competing with the best in the WorldTour. We carefully analyzed where we needed reinforcements within the team in the short term, and Martina was the perfect fit," said Rutger Tijssen, team man🐽ager, in a press release. "The plan is for her to form our sprinting duo with Nienke (Veenhoven) next season."
Veenhoven is a 20-year-old Dutch sprinter who joined the Visma team in 2023 and showcased her speed at the Women's Down Under Criterium with a victory plus several top-5s at𓂃 one-day races including Egmont Cycling Race and Konvert Koerse.
Fidanza said she wanted to develop with the powerhouse team for more frequent trips to the podium, but also learn from experienced, multi-discipline teamma🐼tes, in particular Marianne Vos, who will ride a fifth year with Visma in 2025, and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who transitions from a mountain bike focus back to a full road programme next year.
"T🧸his is a dream come true. I am super proud to be part of Team Visma-Lease a Bike next season because I consider it one of the best teams in the world. In addition, I greatly admire the team’s approach," Fidanza said in a Visma-Lease a Bike statement.
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"With Marianne Vos and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, ⛦I will be racing with two great champions. I expect to learn a lot from them and I want to give them the best possible support in races. Furthermore, I want to show over the next two seasons th♔at I deserve to be part of this team.
"I hope I get to celebrate many more wins in thཧe coming seasons, but my ultimate goal is to🌠 win a WorldTour race."
In her first season at Ceratizit-WNT in 2022, the young Italian was part of three Wome𓃲n's W♔orldTour events, completing her first Giro d'Italia Donne after two other appearances, and had a strong finish with ninth on the final stage in Padova. In 2023 she came close to that WorldTour victory, finishing second on stage 2 and third on stage 3 at Tour of Chongming Island.
Her older sister, Arianna 🗹Fidanza, currently rides for the Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling team, but does not have a contract for 2025.

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