CANYON//SRAM Racing is excited to announce two new riders who will be joining the ranks next season until the end of 2026. Nastya Kolesava will move from CANYON//SRAM Generation to the World TourTeam and Rosa Klöser, who has admired the team from outside the squad, will join the team as a newcomer.
Kolesava is a versatile rider with a keen race instinct. In 2023, she won a stage of the Giro Toscana and finished third overall at the Tour de l’Ardéche. This year, joining the development team CANYON//SRAM Generation, Kolesava took on a road captain role and added second place at GP Lucien Van Impe in Belgium to her palmarès.
Klöser is an emerging cyclist who started competitive cycling in 2022 while studying for her PhD. She comes from a gravel racing background, most notably as the winner of the 2024 Unbound 200. Several podium performances at various UCI World Gravel Series over the past two seasons have demonstrated her attention to detail and strong work ethic. Klöser will join CANYON//SRAM Racing only on the road and the team looks forward to her further development.
Nastya Kolesava said of her decision to sign, “It’s a big step for me to join CANYON//SRAM Racing for the upcoming year. I felt a great atmosphere in the team at the first training camps and doing some races with the team during 2024. The riders and staff are kind and helpful.”
“Racing with CANYON//SRAM Generation in 2024 was an incredible opportunity to ride with teammates from around the world. I developed as a person and took another step as an athlete. I was happy to share my experience with younger riders on the team and I learned from the WorldTour riders. The team has a fantastic environment that allows you to grow as a rider because of the supportive staff.”
“I’m an all-rounder who can do spring classics and help the team in the stage races. I can position my teammates in the peloton and have good race instinct. In 2023, I finished third in the Tour de l’Ardéche, which gave me more trust in myself and motivation to work harder. It’s a special moment to step on the podium with some of the best riders in the world. I’m very grateful for this chance with CANYON//SRAM Racing. My objectives for the upcoming season are growing as a rider and supportive teammate.”
Rosa Klöser said, “I’ve been looking up to CANYON// SRAM Racing as one of the leading Women’s WorldTour teams since I started cycling around three years ago. They always stood out to me with their unique ways of identifying new talent through new approaches like the Zwift Academy; looking beyond road racing results and giving riders the freedom to combine different disciplines. From the first conversation with the team, I could tell that I would feel at home here.”
“Winning Unbound 200 in my debut year while still being a full-time PhD student who has only dipped her toes into cycling around three years ago was certainly the biggest moment in my cycling career so far. While my main focus for next season will be on gravel as a privateer, I am convinced that the team structure and road calendar where I am racing with incredibly talented team mates and being guided by highly experienced support staff, will allow me to make some big steps and unlock new potential in my still fairly new cycling career. I am excited to see where my limits are!”
“With my background in gravel racing, I believe that I can be a quite versatile rider performing and supporting the team across various terrain. I would like to try myself out in classic races and be up there in the mountain stages of Grand Tours to support the team’s GC ambition.”
“With more and more high-profile riders entering the gravel sports and participating in gravel events, adapting to new ways of racing and thinking is essential. The lessons I will learn from road racing will come in handy, as the depth in the women’s gravel peloton allows for increasingly strategic racing. On the flip-side, I think the long and hard days in gravel races will allow me to thrive in the road races where the race is ridden incredibly hard from start to finish, hopefully allowing me to be up there in the final supporting the leader or racing for an individual result, if possible.”
