20-year-old Dutchwoman Shirin van Unrooy has signed a three-year contract extension through 2025 with Trek Segafredo, the women's world team, and the corresponding cyclo-cross outfit, Baloise Trek Lions.

The multi-talented road and cyclocross rider, who barely graduated from junior, is one of the top talents on the Women's World Tour during this winter's UCI Cyclocross World Cup and Spring Classic.

"I'm really happy to keep Shirin on the team for another three years. When we signed her from junior, we knew she had great potential. Last year she suffered quite a bit after a fall and surgery in the winter, but this year she has developed in the way we had hoped. It's fun to see a young athlete develop so much," said Ina Tutenberg, director of Trek Segafredo.

"We want to develop her into a strong contender for the Ardennes Classics and stage races. She is still super young and has many years to learn and grow stronger." I am excited to be a part of that journey with her.

The former junior cyclocross world champion was 18 years old when she accepted the offer to join Trek-Segafredo's training camp. He then signed a two-year contract through the end of 2022.

At the time, she told Cycling News that she hoped to be a future contender in races like the spring classics and the Giro d'Italia.

After a cyclocross season that saw her finish seventh in the UCI standings and second in the under-23 race at the World Championships, van Anlooy lived up to her own expectations during the spring road campaign, supporting her team all the way to the finals of the biggest one-day race of the Women's World Tour.

"Since joining this team, I have made some big steps forward. The last two months, my first time running the Classics, went better than I expected. I had already learned a lot as a stagiaire, but I had a setback with my crash in Tabor. I suffered a lot mentally and physically at the beginning of the season last year, but the team kept believing in me and helped me regain my confidence," said van Ambrooy, referring to a deep laceration on his arm, allegedly caused by a disc brake, in a crash at the World Cup in Tabor in November 2020. He referred to the following.

"What I enjoy most about this team is that you feel part of one big family. We have a plan and we do everything we can to make that plan work. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but we do it as a team.

Van Anrooij also said that she enjoys splitting the season between the cyclocross focus of the Baloise-Trek Lions and the road focus of the Trek-Segafredo, as does her teammate and compatriot Lucinda Brand

"On this team, there is the possibility of combining with Baloise-Trek Lions. On this team, he could be paired with the Valois-Trek Lions.

"I still have a lot to learn and I feel that this environment will give me the opportunity to grow even more as a rider. I feel that this environment gives me the opportunity to grow even more as a rider. Everyone around me is trying to teach me as much as they can."

"I'm still learning a lot.

Trek Segafredo and van Unrooy will build on the strengths she has already shown as part of the team in both road and cyclocross over the next three seasons.

"In the coming years I hope to discover more and more of my strengths and really work towards specific races and become a better rider. The team is looking closely at which races suit me and I believe they will teach me to race with my head a little more than just my legs. I want to concentrate on the climbs and the time trial and see how I do in the stage races."