Movistar has revealed the names of eight of its ten-rider women’s team that has been created for the 2018 season.
The Spanish communications giant announced its plan to create a women’s team in early September. The team will sit alongside its men’s WorldTour team, with riders using the same equipment. They are expected to wear a blue Movistar jersey similar to the one already revealed for the 2018 men’s team.
Movistar joins Team Sunweb, Lotto-Soudal, Orica-Scott, FDJ and Astana as WorldTour outfits with both men's and women's squads. It will become the third UCI-registered Spanish women's team alongside Bizkaia-Durango and Lointek.
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The women’s team has been created to help develop Spanish athletes, and Mavi García, Eider Merino, Alicia González, Alba Teruel, Lourdes Oyarbide and Lorena Llamas have all secured places in the roster. They will be joined by Poland's Malgorzata Jasinska from the US-based Cylance Pro Cycling, and France's Aude Biannic, who joins from the FDJ women’s team.
26 year-old Biannic finished sixth in the time trial at the recent World Championships in Bergen and has secured a series of solid results in recent seasons. Jasinska has competed at WorldTour level since 2011 and has twice won the Giro Toscana Internazionale Femminile stage race.
The Spanish riders include a mix of experience and young talent who have competed across Europe but so far with little success.
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