Sara Poidevin (EF Schooling-TIBCO-SVB) and Makayla MacPherson (Human Powered Well being) are a number of the 4 new riders showed to journey for DNA Professional Biking subsequent season. Shifting from Roxo Racing are Maeghan Easler and Nadia Gontova, whilst DNA Professional Biking keeps 11 athletes for a 15-rider roster in 2024.
Headed to their twelfth season of racing, the DNA Professional Biking Group captured 13 victories in 2023, let by means of Diana Peñuela, the two-time Colombian nationwide highway race champion and Sarah van Dam, the present Canadian U23 highway race champion who lately clinched her first Eu podiums at Le Excursion de l’Ardèche.
“It is been an unbelievable 12 months, the workforce has now not trusted one rider for effects as a result of everyone seems to be acting, 12 of our 14 riders podiumed this 12 months. I am actually inspired by means of the way in which those riders labored in combination each race to succeed in results, it is true teamwork,” Cathay Fegan-Kim, workforce sports activities director and co-owner, advised Cyclingnews.
“The 4 additions we’re bringing on for 2024 are compatible the DNA mildew and can actually upload to our competitiveness.”
Poidevin and MacPherson each and every carry two years of enjoy from the WorldTour. The 27-year-old Canadian, recognized for her power in mountaineering and breakaway using, had two peak 10s on the Joe Martin Degree Race this 12 months. At simply two decades of age, MacPherson gained the 2021 US junior nationwide highway race identify and was once fourth on the 2023 US elite girls’s professional criterium championship.
From the Roxo Racing duo, each Gontova and Easler are climbers. Gontova gained a degree at Redlands Biking Vintage and at Vuelta a Colombia Femenina, and the 23-year-old Canadian additionally rode to peak 5s in GC standings at Excursion of the Gila and Vuelta Ciclista Internacional Femenina a Guatemala. Easler, a 26-year-old US rider, made her mark in US degree racing with a couple of podiums on the Excursion of the Gila.
Further riders returning to the squad with notable effects from 2023 come with Kimberly Lucie, winner of the dash pageant on the American Criterium Cup sequence; Kaitlyn Rauwerda, degree winner from L. a. Vuelta a Colombia; Shayna Powless, issues pageant winner on the Excursion of the Gila; Holly Breck, issues pageant winner on the Redlands Biking Vintage; and Harriet Owen, winner of the Colby Omnium on the Excursion of The united states’s Dairyland.
Lacking from the roster for 2024 are a trio of US riders Gabrielle Lehnert, Daphne Karagianis and Heidi Franz, who simplest joined the Continental workforce in April after the Zaaf Biking Group collapsed.
DNA Professional Biking is these days the top-ranked UCI Continental girls’s workforce within the Americas. The squad will proceed to concentrate on UCI highway races in the United States and out of the country, in addition to top-level US criteriums and world gravel races. Riders stood at the podium greater than 55 occasions in 2023, in line with the workforce, which incorporated peak 3 finishes and degree race or sequence jersey awards for issues, U23, maximum combative and total classifications.
“Our 2024 lineup boasts a flexible mix of climbers, sprinters, and all-rounders, each and every of whom have confirmed their willpower as workforce avid gamers. By means of harmonizing up-and-coming skill with skilled riders, we’ve strategically situated ourselves for good fortune in our formidable calendar forward,” Fegan-Kim mentioned.
DNA Professional Biking Group 2024 roster
- Anet Barrera (Mex)
- Holly Breck (USA)
- Olivia Cummins (USA)
- Maeghan Easler (USA)
- Heather Fischer (USA)
- Nadia Gontova (Can)
- Rachel Langdon (GBr)
- Kimberly Lucie (USA)
- Makayla MacPherson (USA)
- Harriet Owen (GBr)
- Diana Peñuela (Col)
- Sara Poidevin (Can)
- Shayna Powless (USA)
- Kaitlyn Rauwerda (Can)
- Sarah Van Dam (Can)
