For the 2023/24 season, the team around Annemarie Worst (World Championship elite runner-up in 2019 and 2020, European champion in 2018) will have another change in addition to the name change. For the first time since the team was founded, the all-women squad will become a mixed team.

In addition to Annemarie, her compatriot Aniek van Alpen and the Englishwoman Anna Kay, the Belgian Ryan Cortjens (Elite) and the Dutchman Guus van den Eijnden (U23) will also start.

Anna and Aniek in particular have shown excellent early form in the races so far. Anna (U23 Vice European Champion 2019/20), for example, has already recorded three victories in her first four races of the season. Aniek, for her part, took victory at the Kleeberg Cross in Mechelen, the Netherlands. In addition, the 24-year-old took a second and third place in each of the first races of the international season-opening races of the Cyclocross Bundesliga.

U23 rider Guus (U19 bronze medallist at the European Championships 2022/23) started the 2023/24 season with top-10 finishes at the Kleeberg Cross as well as in the strong Cyclocross Bundesliga, and Ryan also collected his first race kilometres for his new team with participations in races 3 and 4 of the Cyclocross Bundesliga in Bad Salzdetfurth.

The new UCI Cyclocross World Cup season starts on 15 October in Waterloo, USA, followed by the first race on European soil in Maasmechelen, Belgium.

The team is also relying on the STEVENS Super Prestige in the new season. With its lightweight and finely tuned frame, the high-tech carbon bike offers the ideal conditions for many more top placings.

STEVENS is looking forward to the 2023/24 international cross season and wishes Team Cyclocross Reds and the riders every success.

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