Georgia Baker will lead Liv Alula Jayco´s powerful line up for the 2024 Ford RideLondon Classique. Baker showed her strength in the bunch sprints in the recent Vuelta Espana Femenina, where she claimed 2nd on stage 4 and will be aiming for success in this week’s UCI Women´s World Tour event.
The Italian duo, Letizia Paternoster and Anna Trevisi will use their bunch skills and speed in these fast finishes to help achieve the team goals.
Known for their strength and reliability, Teniel Campbell, Georgie Howe and Jeanne Korevaar make up the teams ´engine room’ and will provide vital support to the leaders across all stages of the tour.
The three-day stage race will begin in the medieval market town of Saffron Walden in north-west Essex and will cover 160kms, before finishing in Colchester, the first capital of Roman Britain. Stage 2 is another longer stage of 145kms and ends with a short and powerful uphill sprint in Maldon. Stage 3 will be the ‘showpiece’ stage of the tour where the peloton will cover a fast 90kms around central London, a stage for the best sprinters in the world.
Liv AlUla Jayco team line-up:
Georgia Baker (AUS)
Teniel Campbell (TT)
Georgie Howe (AUS)
Jeanne Korevaar (NED)
Letizia Paternoster (ITA)
Anna Trevisi (ITA)
Georgia Baker:
¨I’m feeling really motivated heading into Ford Ride London with such a strong line up. I haven’t focused specifically on my sprint until this year and it’s something I’ve been working hard to improve on with the support of the team. Ride London presents lots of opportunities to put everything the team and I have been working on to the test, so we are aiming high for podium results in both the GC and stages. ¨
Megan Chard-Sport Director:
¨We really are motivated for this race and have been building towards it from Australia when we started our internal sprint project. This was the one race we wanted to target hard with Georgia, so we are coming in with a team that is ready to fight for not only stage podiums but the overall GC too. If you look at the progression the team has made from Australia, through to De Panne and then finally with the recent 2nd place in one of the sprint stages in Vuelta, we can feel that the win is coming, and that itself is very powerful and motivating for everyone.
We have learnt a lot from race to race and are finally in a position where the team start to understand each other well and this is going to make all the difference. Of course, we know it isn’t going to be as simple as get to the finish line and sprint. So, we have brought a team that is equipped to race aggressively and take on opportunities at the same time. ¨
