When the team sat down with clothing partner Gobik to discuss the design of the new jersey, everyone agreed: after four years, it was time to move away from total black and let the Spanish designers' imaginations run wild to create a unique design that would stand out from the crowd.

The new jersey, characterized by shades of purple and blue, is an explosion of action, a vortex of energy that represents the young and dynamic spirit of the Wilier Triestina Pirelli Factory Team. The Italian team will continue to focus on young riders in 2023 in order to build a strong team in the long term. The aim is to have more than one athlete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

After the series of successes in 2022, the Wilier Triestina Pirelli Factory Team will compete in 2023 with a renewed team that is highly motivated and ready to perform as a unit. While the marathon team remains unchanged with reigning European champion Fabian Rabensteiner, reigning Austrian champion Daniel Geismayr, Wout Alleman and Samuele Porro, there is big news in the cross-country department. In addition to the U23 world champion Simone Avondetto and the Italian U23 champion Giada Specia, four new athletes are joining the team.

From England comes Cameron Orr, the reigning British cross-country champion, who has already joined the Wilier Triestina Pirelli Factory Team for the Cape Epic 2022. From Denmark come Sofie and Gustav Pedersen, two crystal-clear talents who already caught the eye last year. Sofie is in his last year in the U23 category and already has numerous World Cup podiums under his belt. Gustav, on the other hand, is in his first year with the U23s, but in the junior category he has already shown several times that he is something special, so much so that he was able to conquer the European champion's jersey. Morris Gruiters from the Netherlands is another very young athlete who wore the national champion's jersey in the juniors and will move up to the U23 with great ambition in 2023.

The goals of the Wilier Triestina Pirelli Factory Team have not changed: to take two Italian brands like Wilier Triestina and Pirelli as far as possible in the mountain bike world to confirm itself as one of the most enterprising and growing off-road teams in 2023. In addition to the new athletes, new sponsors such as Abus, Alba Optics, Ceramic Speed and 7C are joining the Wilier Triestina Pirelli Factory Team.

The year 2023 begins for the Wilier Triestina Pirelli Factory Team with a three-week team camp under the warm Spanish sun as guests of the Hotel Cap Negret in Altea, before kicking off as usual with the season-opening classic, the Mediterranean Epic.

All cross-country and marathon World Cup events, the Internazionali d'Italia Series, the Cape Epic and the national championships are on the agenda, with the aim of conquering as many national jerseys as possible, even if it will be hard to want to take it off this 2023 with such a beautiful and colorful jersey.

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