Three-time mountain bike marathon world champion Mona Mitterwallner is ready to race on the street for the following two years, pushed by formidable objectives. The 22-year-old Austrian rider is becoming a member of the Human Powered Well being workforce, the place she is going to mix mountain bike and street by 2026.
Mitterwallner was the seventeenth and closing rider for the 2025 roster for the workforce’s fourth season within the Ladies’s WorldTour. All however one of many riders and new workforce package was unveiled earlier this month.
Mitterwallner’s palmares embody 5 rainbow jerseys throughout junior, U23 and elite classes, 4 elite cross-country nationwide wins, two elite XCO World Cup victories, two junior continental titles, and 45 profession race wins. She completed 18th on the Paris Olympics.
And now, she’s a brand new problem, impressed partly by the success of Puck Pieterse [Fenix-Deceuninck], a Tour de France stage winner. Mitterwallner has completed runner-up to Pieterse previously two MTB European Championships.
“I wish to change into the most effective bike owner on the planet so I’ve at all times mentioned street racing is a part of my future,” Mitterwallner acknowledged in a workforce launch. “It was at all times on my radar and now after the Olympics, I wished to strive one thing new. I wished to get out of my previous routine and see if I might enhance as a rider.”
“I wished a brand new problem and to develop myself,” she famous. “I really like climbing. In MTB you’re climbing for 2 or three minutes however in street racing you do it for over an hour. That’s one thing I wish to attempt to I believe I shall be good at.”
Mitterwallner’s final foray on the street was an Eleventh-place end within the U23 European street race received by her new teammate Silvia Zanardi.
“I’m trying ahead to stage races,” she explains. “I’m good at doing repeated efforts day after day and in MTB you don’t get that a lot. Racing full fuel over per week is thrilling. I wish to see if I can get well as shortly as I believe I can for racing the following day.”
Mitterwallner joined her new workforce at a coaching camp in December.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Mona Mitterwallner to our workforce for her debut season in skilled street biking,” Ro De Jonckere, Normal Supervisor, mentioned. “Mona’s spectacular achievements in mountain biking showcase her distinctive expertise and willpower.”
The workforce took discover of her spectacular vary of abilities.
“Her potential to excel in probably the most demanding disciplines of biking at her younger age is a testomony to her power and resilience,” De Jonckere added. “We’re excited to help her as she transitions to the street, and we’re assured her profitable mentality and flexibility will make her a formidable presence within the peloton.”
