Van Vleuten and Movistar Team reaffirm their La Vuelta title and continue their historic 2022

the olympic champion Annemiek van Vleuten rose to the podium again Madrid following his 2021 victory in the Santiago de Compostela and continues to end a wonderful season, with Omloop, Liège, Giro, Tour and the Spanish cycle.

A rare season that, starting this Sunday, gets even better. Then Padua and La Super Planche des Belles Filles, Madrid’s Plaza de Cibeles attended this Sunday the second consecutive victory -after the one achieved in Santiago in 2021- of Annemiek van Vleuten and Movistar Team in La Vuelta’s Ceratizit Challenge. A milestone to add to the great achievements in Omloop, Liège and the two ‘Grand Tours’ of the month of July, in an unprecedented 2022 for Dutch and telephone companies.

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With the victory confirmed in another masterpiece, the one signed by ‘Miek’ on Thursday in his 30 km solo ride in the Cantabrian mountains around Colindres, and ‘La Roja’, which was first classified in the demanding promises of Aguilar de Campoo (Friday) and Segovia (Saturday), Van Vleuten and his five companions -Arlenis Sierra (5th on Friday), Sara Martín, Aude Biannic, Emma Norsgaard and Katrine Aalerud– covered the final circuit in Madrid without incident to seal the title.

40 wins for the team so far this year

Thus, the Movistar Team reaches 40 victories in 2022 -25 of them by its women’s team- and Van Vleuten -six consecutive stage victories, unbeaten from Norway ’21 until now- reaches 97 , only three to one hundred, on a legendary trajectory whose next goal is imminent Wollongong World Championships (Australia), where he will compete in individual time trials (Sunday 18), mixed relay (Wednesday 21) and line (Saturday 24) with the highest ambition.

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After stepping down from the podium, it was Annemiek van Vleuten’s remarks: “It was a very good race, especially because this week we made a great team effort. In the end, a team time trial like on the first day is the best example of teamwork, but more than everyone, on the second day the girls did a great job, preparing the ground perfectly so that I could get everything I had. Saturday was also an important day. Closing a big gap like Kiesenhofer did was something you can’t do alone. On a personal note, I’m very happy with the sensations I got, especially the day at Colindres. You always have doubts, after spending five weeks without competing, without being tested your fitness against your rivals, but I will go to the World Championship calm and convinced that I can maintain the level I reached on the Tour”.