The junior girls’s street race on the UCI Street World Championships is simply 73.6km lengthy and fewer punchy than final 12 months’s route in Glasgow. There are a few important climbs that ought to choose the perfect riders earlier than a comparatively flat end.
The winner will want pace in addition to climbing energy to take residence the rainbow bands in Zurich. Cyclingnews appears at a couple of of the highest favourites.
Célia Gery (France)
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Célia Gery wins the ladies’s Junior cyclocross world title in Tabor(Picture credit score: SWpix.com)
Double French nationwide champion Célia Gery has had a stand-out season that included two phases of the Watersley Women Problem and the Tour of Flanders victory – upgrading her third place in that race in 2023. She’s a contender in virtually each race she enters with last podium placings within the EPZ Omloop van Borsele, Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie and Bizkaikoloreak stage races.
A fourth place within the European Championships alerts her sturdy kind and he or she can be in her component within the a lot hillier street race in Zurich.
Cat Ferguson (Nice Britain)
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Cat Ferguson of Nice Britain initially of the Junior girls’s street race on the 2023 UCI Street World Championships (Picture credit score: SWpix.com)
British champion Cat Ferguson had excessive expectations on her shoulders finally 12 months’s Worlds in Glasgow and completed second to France’s Julie Bego within the street race.
This 12 months, she has the higher hand as an 18-year-old and a slew of wins all through the season together with the GC within the Omloop van Borsele, Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie and Bizkaikoloreak in addition to podiums within the Tour of Flanders, La Choralis Fourmies Féminine and Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda. Already signed to the WorldTour Movistar staff by 2027, her expertise has been well known. She simply has to have luck and energy to complete it off.
Puck Langenbarg (Netherlands)
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Puck Langenbarg (Netherlands) wins the European championships(Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
European Champion Puck Langenbarg wasn’t precisely the highest favorite for the race in Limburg, however the Dutch champion packs a robust dash and benefitted from a big group coming to the road. With a descent and a small climb within the last 10km, there’s a good likelihood for an additional lowered bunch dash in Zurich, and Langenbarg’s kind and confidence make her a high favorite in that state of affairs.
Viktória Chladoňová (Slovakia)
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Viktória Chladonová wins the ladies’s junior XCO race on the 2024 MTB World Championships(Picture credit score: Will Palmer/SWpix)
The junior world champion in MTB cross nation and winner of the Nové Mesto World Cup for juniors, Chladoňová can also be the bronze medalist at Worlds in cyclocross. Whereas she hasn’t raced as extensively on the street as her rivals on the UCI degree, she did place second total in the one Nations Cup she did this 12 months on the Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie and stays a high contender for street Worlds.
Auke De Buysser (Belgium)
If the ladies’s junior race comes right down to a dash, there are few within the area sooner than De Buysser, who received the dash classification on the Omloop Borsele, the Belgian street title, the GP Ceratizit Junior, the Vermarc Biking Mission Junior two-day race, and half a dozen national-level races all in bunch sprints. A podium on the Piccolo Trofeo Binda exhibits she will recover from the climbs, too, making the Belgian a outsider to observe.
