The women’s Wiggle High5 team has confirmed its line-up for 2017, with Emilia Fahlin, Claudia Lichtenberg, and Britain’s Grace Garner among the five new riders that will boost the ten riders from this year’s squad. Emma Johansson and Giorgia Bronzini have both delayed plans to retire, while Elisa Longo Borghini, Jolien D’hoore and Annette Edmondson will again be team leaders as Wiggle High5 targets key events in the women’s WorldTour.
Australian sprinter Chloe Hosking leaves the team to ride for Alé-Cipollini in 2017 so she can combine studies for a law degree with her training and racing.
The team took 35 victories in 2016, including five national championships, and its riders earned three medals at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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“I’m extremely excited about the five new additions to Wiggle High5 for 2017, the team was selected and strengthened very carefully and strategically with the input of our current athletes and staff. We’re a very close, united, family style team and believe very much in the strength of our roster for 2017,” said Wiggle High5 team owner and manager Rochelle Gilmore, announcing the new roster.
“We’ve created a team very capable of winning the WorldTour. And we’ll focus on the specific individual World Tour events most important to our partners and their markets.”
Lichtenberg finished fourth overall in this year’s Giro d’Italia and was one of the few riders able to compete with Mara Abbott in the mountains.
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