Irish road race champion Alice Sharpe has signed for new Belgian squad Team Ciclotel.
The team’s sponsor is a bike shop and cycling travel
company. It has a five-year plan and wants to move to WorldTour level
immediately.
Sharpe, who took the Irish title in Derry City during the
summer, enjoyed a great season this year riding for the UCI’s World Cycling
Centre women’s pro team.
She is one of 10 riders named to date in what will be a
12-rider ream for 2020.
Also in the team is Ukrainian rider Valeriya Kononenko.
She is a former silver medalist in the World Championship and European Champion
in the junior TT and is the reigning elite national champion.
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Portuguese champion on the road and time trial, Daniela
Reis has also signed as has Ukrainian teenager Olha Kulynych, the reigning
national champion time trial U23.
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Hayley Simmonds of Great Britain, who was 7th in the TT
at the Europeans and is a former British elite TT champion, will also ride in
the ream colours next year.
Dutch woman Kirstie van Haaften, the European scratch
race champion on the track last year, will also be a Team Ciclotel rider in
2020.
Austria Kathrin Schweinberger, a former national youth
and junior champion who took a pro win in Tour of Uppsala, Sweden, in 2018 has
also signed.
Other riders in the squad include Antri Christoforou, the
Cypriot national road and TT champion, as well as Dutch sprinter Bryony Van
Velzen and Belgian rider Kim de Baat.
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