Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi, UCI Continental team seeking a place on the UCI Women’s World Teamthe highest international category, has closed its squad for 2025 with the signing of experienced runners Ukrainian Yuliia Biriukova and the promising Uzbek Yanina Kuskova.
With the addition of Biriukova (1998) and Kuskova (2001), the group was incorporated into the Euskadi Foundation, of which the Euskaltel Euskadi men’s team is also a part, completing the squad of 14 cyclists that will be with it in the 2025 academic year.
The Ukrainian and Uzbek cyclists are the third and fourth signings for the new campaign of the Basque team, which in recent days also announced the arrival of the Italians. Alice Maria Arzuffi and Arianna Fidanzaboth from Ceratizit.
Together, they will defend the Laboral Kutxa jersey in the new season, Naia Amondarain, Debora Silvestri, who renewed, Usoa Ostolaza, who extended her contract, Idoia Eraso, Ane Santesteban, Catalina Soto, Alba Teruel, Laura Tomasi, Cristina Tonetti and Eneritz Vadillo.
Biriukova, who joined his new team from WorldTour Human Powered Healthis “an all-terrain and complete cyclist, in full development”, which Laboral Kutxa hopes will bring “maturity and experience to the team, since he has been a professional since 2019.”
Kuskova, for her part, is “a promising cyclist in whom the team predicts significant potential, and who has made a step in European cycling” after three seasons she raced for the Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team in her country .
With its commitment to “international talent”, Laboral Kutxa seeks to “continue adding the maximum number of UCI points for the next WorldTour access window and thus consolidate its position as a reference women’s sports team in its environment.”
Regarding the new signings, the team’s sports manager, Ion Lazkano, is “sure that the two will contribute to the team and raise the average level of the group.”
From Biriukova, Lazkano “I will especially highlight the great engine that he has,” because “he is a rider who performs very well in demanding tests, with good unevenness, and also in time trials, so that he can be qualified for general classifications”; He sees Kuskova as “an all-terrain runner, aggressive, brave, who defends herself high and on the plane.”
Source: La Verdad
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