Basque: Ane Santesteban leads the Laboral Kutxaren Italian Giroan

The Guipuzcoan Ane Santesteban will be the leader of the Laboral Kutxa-Euskadi Foundation in it Giro d’Italia Women’s World Tourwhich will be played between July 7 and 14, in what will be the first participation of the team led by Ion Lazkano and Peio Goikoetxea. The Basque formation received one of the invitations to participate in the “Pink Corsa” at the beginning of June by the organization RCS Sport.

The Zarautz woman Use of Ostolazathe German Aileen Schweikart and the Italians Nadia Quagliotto, Deborah Silvestri, Laura Tomasi and Cristina Tonetti These are the six riders who will support the cyclist from Rentería.

It will be the eleventh participation of Santesteban in a race in which she finished tenth last year, ninth in 2018 and seventh, her best final position overall, in 2020.

“It’s a special Giro because I’m going to be racing with a Basque team again and I’m really looking forward to it. In the last few races the team has shown how strong it is, its character, its essence on the road and I think we’re going to continue to show that in the Giro,” said the Guipuzcoan in statements released by the Euskadi Foundation team.

Laboral Kutxa will arrive at the Giro in second position in the Continental team classification that gives access to all the races of the World Tour in 2025. In addition, it has achieved great results in Spain Championship (Use of Ostolaza and Yurani Whitegold and silver, respectively, and Eneritz Vadillo won the under-23 title) and Blanco’s victories in the Eibar City GP and Ostolaza in the Tour of the Pyrenees.

Source: Eitb

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