the stellar Arlene Sierra She will be the only cyclist from the Island in the Road Cycling World Championship that takes place in the city of Wollongong, Australia, from this Saturday until September 25.
The Cuban is currently in 23rd place in the world ranking of the discipline, which places her as the best positioned among cyclists in America, and will seek to emulate the performance of the previous Road World Championship, where she anchored in fifth position. a historic result for the athlete.
The Cuban News Agency precise that the Antillean performs her training with several members of her team Movistar Teamwhich includes the Spanish cyclists Sarah Martín, Lourdes Oyarbide and Oier Lazkano, in a squad that also includes the Olympic and world champion Annemiek van Vleuten, from the Netherlands.
Next Saturday will be the road race for elite women at 12:25 (local time), in a competition that in its previous edition was won by the two-time Italian world champion Elisa Balsamo, with 3:52.27 hours, with second place for the multiple Dutch Olympic and world champion Marianne Vos, with the same official time, followed by the Polish Katarzyna Niewiadoma, the Hungarian Blanka Vas Kata and the Cuban, all one second away from first place.
The athlete born in Manzanillo is ranked 23rd in the world ranking of road cyclists with 1,264 units, according to the ranking on the official website of the International Cycling Union recently publishedthanks largely to the 275 points achieved with the fifth place in the previous event of the world of road.
