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Three newcomers join the UIM-ABP tour this season; multiple Estonian
champion Katriin Nilbe from Tartu, four-time Latvian champion Krista
Uzare fromRiga and Portuguese champion Joana Graca fromSt Estevão.
Starting her second season on the tour and looking for her first podium is
France’s VirginieMorlaes, one of the most consitent performers in 2016,
taking a pair of third place race results, a string of top five finishes and just
missing the podium, finishing fourth overall three times and finishing the
year in fifth spot.
Arguably the busiest lady at events and the ‘elder stateswoman’ of the
11 is Kylie Ellmers who seems to have a hand in prepping half the bikes
in the paddock. The New Zealander, who lives and works in Melbourne,
Australia, and races on a Russian license starts her third full season and
will be looking to improve on lasts season’s sixth overall.
Sofie Borgstrom, who made her debut in Castro in 2015 at just 15, is still
the youngest competitor in the division at 17 and starts her second full
season and is again joined by elder sister Jonna who made the podium on
her debut in 2014 in Milan, and along with seasoned- campaigner Marta
Sorrentino and Lisa Caussin Battaglia will all be looking to challenge for
top six slots.
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