Italian Martina Fidanza is considered a “perfect fit” for Visma Lease-a-Bike, which has signed the young sprinter to a two-year contract. Fidanza has spent the past three seasons with Serratigit-WNT Pro Cycling and will join the Dutch women's WorldTour team in 2025.

The 24-year-old has been on the Lotto-Thuringia Ladies Tour this season, holding off veterans such as Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek), Barbara Guariski (SD Walks Pro Time), and Tiffany Cromwell (Kayon SRAM) in brief sprint The team held off veterans such as Barbara Guariski (SD Walks Pro Time) and Tiffany Cromwell (Cayon SRAM) in a brief sprint to win back-to-back stages. He also made the podium three times in one-day races in late spring, including a win at GP Mazda Scherkens.

Fidanza has won junior world titles in Team Pursuit and Scratch for Italy, and two world titles in Scratch and one in Team Pursuit for the elite women.

“Martina has already achieved good results. We believe we can develop her into a sprinter who can compete with the best on the World Tour. We have carefully analyzed the players we need to strengthen in the team in the short term and Martina is the best choice,” team manager Lutger Theisen said in a press release. Next season she will be partnered with Nienke (Veenhoven) in the sprinting duo.

Veenhoven is a 20-year-old Dutch sprinter who joined the Visma team in 2023, winning the women's Down Under criterium and finishing in the top five in one-day races such as the Egmont Cycling Race and Convert Coors. He showed off his skills.

Fidanza not only wants to grow with a strong team to get on the podium more often, but also with experienced multidiscipline teammates, especially Marianne Vos, who will begin her fifth year with Visma in 2025 and will return to a full road program next year from a mountain bike focus He said he hopes to learn from Pauline Ferrand-Prevot.

“It's a dream come true. I am very proud to be a part of Team Vimaris a Bike next season. Furthermore, I am very impressed with the team's approach,” Fidanza said in a statement from Visma Lease-a-Bike.

“I will be racing with two great champions in Marianne Vos and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot. I want to learn a lot from them and give them my best support in the races. Furthermore, I want to show in the next two seasons that I deserve to be a part of this team."

“Hopefully we can celebrate more victories in the coming seasons.

In 2022, her first season with Serratigit-WNT, the young Italian took part in three Women's World Tour events and competed in two others before completing her first Giro d'Italia Donne, finishing an impressive 9th in the final stage in Padova. In 2023, she came close to winning the World Tour at the Tour of Chongming Island, finishing second on the second stage and third on the third stage.

Her sister Arianna Fidanza is currently with the Serratigit-WNT professional cycling team, but has not signed a contract for 2025.