UAE Team ADQ scores another major market coup for the 2023 season. Young Italian sprinter Chiara Consonni has signed a 2 years contract with the UAE's first women's pro cycling team.
Chiara Consonni, a new arrow for UAE Team ADQ sprintsPRESS RELEASE 85 | 29-09-2022
Born on 24th June 1999, Chiara has already had the opportunity to demonstrate her great talent. She is one of the most promising young sprinters on the international scene and after a long experience of maturity with Valcar has now decided to make the big leap into the World Tour with UAE Team ADQ.
Chiara, younger sister of pro cyclist and Olympic track champion Simone Consonni, will have the opportunity to further improve her sprinting attributes, while also learning from her more experienced teammates. The squad will take advantage of her sprinter performance and confirm her added value for these explosive moments.
During her young career as a professional cyclist, Chiara Consonni has already won nine races, five in this 2022 including the last stage of the Giro Donne, and three important semi-classics in Belgium such as the Dwars door Vlaanderen, the Dwars door de Westhoek, the SPAR Flanders Diamond Tour and the GP d'Isbergues in France. She also alternates between road and track activity where she is a multiple European and World champion.
Chiara Consonni said “I received offers from several teams, but I found with UAE Team ADQ a different and important project with a global approach and I am very exciting to join a World Tour Team with such a Identity! Since I was a child, I have loved cycling and cycling was the most natural and beautiful thing for me to do. Today seems the female professional riders as a role model is an honor. For me it is the concretization of showing that when you believe in your goals and dreams and work hard for them you can achieve everything! Plus the technical and sporting growth conversation with the Team Manager, Rubens Bertogliati convince me even more to join. I already know several riders who are part of this group and I’m also excited to be able to work with them”.
UAE Team ADQ General Manager Rubens Bertogliati said: “Chiara Consonni has shown that she is one of the top sprinters in the international peloton and the fact that she has already managed on a few occasions to beat a phenomenon like Lorena Wiebes speaks volumes about her qualities. She is still very young, but she is a pure sprinter and will be a very important pawn for our team, especially in sprint races. The experience she will also be able to draw from other riders in the team can only help her to grow further”.
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Giorgio Torre
Press and PR Officer
For UAE Team ADQ
Photo Credits: Twila Muzzi
