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EF Professional Biking has taken additional steps towards the launch of a brand new girls’s crew, appointing the skilled Esra Tromp as basic supervisor of the squad, which is finally aiming to discover a place inside the high ranks of the ladies’s peloton.
The crew shall be owned and managed by EF Professional Biking, whereas EF Training’s earlier foray into the ladies’s peloton was through Linda Jackson’s already well-established Tibco-SVB with the enterprise turning into the main title sponsor of the EF Education-Tibco-SVB squad initially of the 2022 season. That crew is operating by means of beneath its present title till the top of 2023 however it has already been introduced that the 2 legacy companions, Tibco and SVB, would not renew their sponsorship on the finish of the season.
The brand new girls’s crew beneath EF Professional Biking administration, the house of males’s WorldTour squad EF Training-EasyPost, shall be named EF Training-Cannondale and is about to start out off at UCI Girls’s Continental degree in 2024.
“In fact, there’s a problem to make this crew from zero, to actually construct it. It’s model new and there is not any historical past so it’s a clean web page to fill in. And that’s one thing I actually like,” stated Tromp in a press release.
“Subsequent 12 months, the principle objectives are to be actually seen inside the races and to construct a cohesive group of riders and workers. We wish our crew to be seen, to be on the market, and naturally to attempt to win races. Past 2024, I feel this crew positively has the potential to be the most effective groups on this planet, a squad that’s able to successful races in all types of circumstances and completely different race sorts, whether or not it’s the Tour de France, the Giro, or the Tour of Flanders.”
The 32-year-old, who spent eight years as knowledgeable rider, has a level in enterprise economics and 6 years expertise as a crew supervisor beneath her belt and in addition already has a confirmed file in establishing a girls’s programme. She constructed and developed the Jumbo-Visma women’s crew which is headlined by Marianne Vos.
“That is an thrilling new chapter within the historical past of EF Professional Biking and we’re thrilled to carry Esra Tromp on board to guide the cost,” stated Maria Norrman, president of EF Professional Biking,
“She has a confirmed monitor file within the Girls’s WorldTour and has already demonstrated that she has what it takes to construct the most effective groups on this planet from the bottom up. Esra shares the identical dedication to making a crew that not solely wins races however that additionally empowers extra girls and ladies to experience. We will’t wait to hit the bottom operating.”
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