He Massi-Tactic UCI Women’s Cycling Team strengthening its staff in the integration of Valeria Valgonen, a 20-year-old Russian cyclist who joined the team until the end of this season. He is the current champion of his country in track cycling and is also the best in the world in pursuit in the junior category.
A sprint specialist, it also adapts well to mid-mountain sections. He will debut this Saturday with Torroella de Montgrí teamto compete in III Villaquilambre Grand Prixin lion. This is the fourth exam marking the Spanish Cup Women Cofidisa competition that has passed Noja, Beasain and Pontevedra. In the Galician lands, certainly, the French Massi-Tactic prevailed Cecile Lejeune last March 26.
Sergi Güell, president of the Baix Ter Cycling Club, makes an assessment of this signing: “He is a young promise of almost 20 years old who combines track and road cycling. He is a very strong runner, with a very good top speed, who passes well through the central mountains. He has talent, he moves well in the peloton, he has been competing all his life and because of the war his country was involved in, he was left without a team. We hope he can help us and be an important element now season in races resolved in sprints”. Valeria Valgonen explained that “I really want to compete in team races, but also to finish in short stages. I hope that this year I can help the team achieve its goals”.
Valgonen will start this Saturday in León with a test leaving and arriving at Navatejera that presents a route of 83 kilometers, with two laps on a circuit where an urban section is added and a climb 5 kilometers from the finish line . More than 400 cyclists are registered, in different categories. On behalf of the entire Costa Brava, they will also compete Jennifer Ducuara, Cécile Lejeune, Petra Zsankó, Patricia Ortega, Vera Vilaça and Elisabet Escursell.
Fifth year competing in the elite within a club founded in 1990
Massi-Tactic is the first women’s team of the Baix Ter Cycling Club, it is led by Manel Gonzalo and Àngel González and this 2023 it will play for the fifth consecutive season as a continental team. His main goal for this year is to turn one hundred percent professional. It consists of 13 cyclists, 4 of them Catalan (Patricia Ortega, Iris Gómez, Elisabet Escursell and Estefania Jiménez), to face the course that will last until September. The team will run around thirty national and international races, some of them in the UCI WorldTour category, the first level, competing in Spain and also in Italy, Belgium, France and Switzerland.
Source: La Verdad
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