Team Jayco AlUla increased the size of the women’s WorldTour squad for 2024 with four more riders moving from the merger with Liv Racing-TeqFind, which will see the latter become the development squad.
The Dutch trio of Quinty Ton, Silke Smulders, Jeanne Korevaar will be joined with Swede Caroline Andersson and continue at the top tier for the Australian outfit.
The Jayco-AlUla roster expansion follows the two-year signing of Spanish champion Mavi García, who raced her eighth pro season with Liv Racing-TeqFind this year, winning the road race championship of Spain for a fifth time and finishing seventh at the Giro Donne.
“These four riders symbolise the philosophy we [Team Jayco AlUla increased the size of the women’s WorldTour squad for 2024 with four more riders moving from the merger with Liv Racing-TeqFind, which will see the latter become the development squad.
The Dutch trio of Quinty Ton, Silke Smulders, Jeanne Korevaar will be joined with Swede Caroline Andersson and continue at the top-tier for the Australian outfit.
The Jayco-AlUla roster expansion follows the two-year signing of Spanish champion Mavi García, who raced her eighth pro season with Liv Racing-TeqFind this year, winning the road race championship of Spain for a fifth time and finishing seventh at the Giro Donne.
“These four riders symbolise the philosophy we [Liv Racing-TeqFind and Team Jayco AlUla] share. It’s all about scouting talents at an early stage, enabling them to develop to their maximum potential and ultimately winning races with them,” said Eric van den Boom, now the team manager for Liv Racing-TeqFind and will manage the development programme for Jayco next year.
Both Andersson and Smulders are young talents, both just 22 years old. Andersson said the merger of her former team with Jayco-AlUla provides a positive synergy and she looked forward to continuing to ride with García as well as reconnecting with Ingvild Gåskjenn, who was her teammate for two seasons at Hitec Products.
“At Team Jayco AlUla, I will meet an old acquaintance: Ingvild Gåskjenn. We are very close, so it is nice that our paths cross again. Furthermore, I like the fact that several current teammates are also in the team in 2024. For example, I did a lot of races together with Mavi García. During the season, the teamwork on the race went better and better. Hopefully, that will go even one step better next season,” Andersson said in a team statement.
Ton, who raced with Liv…
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