Road European Championships: Paula Ostiz maintains strong Worlds form to defend junior women's time trial title
Movistar-bound Spanish rider beats Germany's Magdalena Leis to victory by 2 seconds in Étoile-sur-Rhône
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Paula Ostiz (Spain) successfully defended the junior women's time trial title she won at the UEC Road European Championships last year in Hasselt, this time winning in Étoile-sur-Rhône, France.
While her winning margin in 2024 was only one second, this year's race was similarly close, with Germany's Magdalena Leis narrowly missing out by just two seconds.
Leis took silver ahead of Oda Aune Gissinger (Norway), with the newly crowned junior time trial World Champion from Kigali, Rwanda, Megan Arens (Netherlands), missing out on the podium by three seconds.
Ostiz added this victory to her silver medal behind Arens and the junior road race World Champion's jersey she claimed last week. One of the top rising stars in women's cycling, Ostiz is set to jump up to Movistar's Women's WorldTour squad in 2026, having already raced as a stagiaire for them at the end of this season.
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James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.
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