The best road cyclist in the Americas for the last decade, the Cuban Arlenis Sierra, will finish the 2022 competitive calendar this weekend at the Tour de Romandía in her campaign with the Movistar Team.
“An unforgettable year is coming to an end. The Movistar Team puts the finishing touch in style, with the last round of the WorldTour, the 2022 Grand Tours, of almost thirty successes, to touch the sky. And he does so with his first visit to Switzerland, to play the inaugural edition of a Tour de Romandie which, despite its late position on the calendar, will offer the toughest high-altitude finish of the entire campaign,” the club said on its website. official Web.
In support of Van Vleuten, Sierra will run once again in a formation completed by the Serbian Jelena Erić and the Spanish Sheila Gutiérrez and Sara Martín.
The lineup achieved as its most outstanding result in its most recent race the fifth place of the Cuban on Tuesday in the Tre Valli Varesine, a professional category 1.1 race of the International Cycling Union in Italy.
Sierra was champion of the first Tre Valli Varesine in 2021 and came into that race after finishing fourth in the Giro dell’Emilia.
Lausanne, Freiburg and Geneva will be the scene of the Tour de Romandie from tomorrow until Sunday, in three stages of 134.4, 104.5 and 147.6 kilometers with steep heights and altitudes of over 2,000 meters.
