The Venezuelan has a valid contract for next season Orluis Aular expanded his relationship with Caja Rural-Seguros RGA for an additional year, until the end of 2024. In this way, the current champion of his country both on the road and against the clock will start his fourth campaign in green after returning to Spain from the Japanese squad in 2020 .
Orluis, just 26 this November, has been the main active winner of the Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, accumulating a total of seven victories throughout 2022. To the national titles of Venezuela, we must add two stages and the general of the Volta ao Alentejo, the Clássica da Arrábida also in Portugal and the first place in the online test of the South American Games. An important value that is able to combine an outstanding maximum speed with the ability to overcome broken terrain in not too large groups. In Itzulia, against a World Tour category peloton, he finished fifth and sixth in Viana and Zamudio.
With this confirmation, the previously announced renewals, the cyclists with contracts (Julen Amézqueta, Jefferson Cepeda, Jhojan García, Calum Johnston, Iúri Leitão, Sergio Martín, Michal Schlegel and Yesid Pira) and those signed from reserve team of Abel Balderstone, Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael and Joseba López with Czechs Daniel Babor and Tomáš Bárta, The staff of Caja Rural-Seguros RGA reached 21 runners. Therefore, sixteen continue with respect to the last campaign. Another relevant fact is that more than half of the group, specifically eleven, had previously passed through the Caja Rural-Alea subsidiary.
The entire team will meet for the first time next week at the Bed4U Hotel in Pamplona to lay the groundwork and plan what is expected to be an exciting 2023 academic year for Caja Rural-Seguros RGA.
Caja Rural staff for 2023
Amézqueta, Julen (Navarra, 8/12/1993) – 6th season
Aular, Orluis (Venezuela, 11/5/1986) – 4th season.
Babor, Daniel (Czech Republic, 10/22/1999) – New, continuing in Elkov-Kasper.
Balderstone, Abel (Barcelona, 7/7/2000) – New, is from the subsidiary.
Barceló, Fernando (Huesca, 6/1/1996) – 2nd season.
Barrenetxea, Jon (Vizcaya, 4/20/2000) – 3rd season.
Bárta, Tomáš (Czech Republic, 4/28/1999) – New, from ATT Investments.
Cepeda, Jefferson (Ecuador, 03/02/1996) – 5th season.
Etxeberria, Josu (Navarra, 9/9/2000) – 3rd season.
García, Jhojan (Colombia, 1/10/1998) – 4th season.
González, David (Ávila, 2/21/1996) – 5th season.
Hailemichael, Mulu Kinfe (Ethiopia, 6/12/1999) – New, from subsidiary.
Johnston, Calum (Scotland, 1/11/1998) – 2nd season.
Leitão, Iúri (Portugal, 7/3/1998) – 2nd season.
López, Joseba (Álava, 5/3/2000) – New, is from the subsidiary.
Martín, Sergio (Madrid, 12/13/1996) – 4th season.
Murguialday, Jokin (Álava, 3/19/2000) – 3rd season.
Nicolau, Joel (Girona, 12/23/1997) – 5th season.
Pira, Yesid (Colombia, 6/28/1999) – 2nd season.
Prades, Eduard (Tarragona, 9/8/1987) – 5th season.
Schlegel, Michal (Czech Republic, 5/31/1995) – 2nd season.
Source: La Verdad
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