Ally Wollaston will depart AG Insurance coverage-Soudal after signing a brand new two-year contract with FDJ-SUEZ starting in 2025 via to the top of 2026. The New Zealander’s goals can be to hunt stage wins and help the workforce’s leaders within the main occasions on the WorldTour.
“I am extraordinarily grateful for the chance to affix FDJ Suez and am actually wanting ahead to the following two years as I proceed to develop on the street, exploring my full potential and studying from the workforce leaders, Wollaston mentioned.
“I imagine we might be aggressive throughout all parcours subsequent 12 months, and I am excited to play my half.”
Wollaston signed her first skilled contract with the event workforce NXTG Racing in August of 2021 the place she then spent one full season in 2022 earlier than workforce modified names to AG Insurance coverage-Soudal in 2023 after which acquired a WorldTour licence for the primary time this season.
The 23-year-old from Auckland, New Zealand, has had a profitable profession with eight skilled wins within the final three seasons. Her achievements embrace the general victory at Pageant Elsy Jacobs and total podiums on the Lotto Belgium Tour and Bretagne Girls Tour.
She has additionally secured a stage win on the Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath in January, which was her first WorldTour victory, and a podium on the Giro d’Italia Ladies final 12 months. She additionally received the New Zealand street race title in 2023.
In June, Wollaston received two levels of Volta Ciclista a Catalunya forward of Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike), the place she additionally received one of the best sprinter classification.
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Ally Wollaston wins stage 1 on the Santos Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
A multi-discipline rider in street and observe racing, Wollaston represented New Zealand in the course of the Olympic Video games in Paris, the place she received the silver medal within the Staff Pursuit and bronze within the Omnium.
Stephen Delcourt, basic supervisor at FDJ-SUEZ, mentioned the workforce has been preserving a detailed eye on Wollaston’s progress during the last three seasons and so they imagine that she is a “pure expertise.”
“FDJ-SUEZ could be very proud to announce the arrival of Ally Wollaston beneath the workforce’s jersey for the following two seasons,” Delcourt mentioned.
“We now have been watching Ally’s rise over the previous couple of seasons, impressed by her velocity, versatility and attacking spirit. Ally has demonstrated her capacity to shine at one of the best degree and can have an important function to play for us.”
