A total of 128 cyclists from 24 teams were registered with the Colombian Cycling Federation to participate in the tenth edition of the Women’s Vuelta a Colombia 2025, which will be held from June 10 to 15 and will travel through the departments of Cundinamarca, Tolima, Quindío, Valle del Cauca, Caldas and Risaralda.
Within the group of pre-registered riders there will be 79 riders in the elite category and 49 in the U-23 category. The registration of 43 foreign riders from Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, United States, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Iran, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Chile, Argentina and Guatemala, who will start the race next Tuesday, June 10 in the municipality of Cajicá, in Cundinamarca, stands out.
In the group of pre-registered cyclists the presence of the last champion of the race stands out, the Venezuelan Lilibeth Chacón, who will be leading LC Pro Cycling, in search of her fourth title, after those obtained in 2021, 2023 and 2024.
Mexico’s Patobike BMC, team champion in the 2024 edition, will be led by Colombian Karen Lorena Villamizar, national runner-up in the time trial and who this season took fourth place overall in the Tour de Gila and seventh place in the Tour El Salvador.
Along with Villamizar will be Ecuadorian Esther Galarza, national road runner-up and who won last year’s third stage (which ended in Minca), which allowed her to be provisional leader of the race. Also present will be the Colombians Jessica Parra and Milena Salcedo, and the Mexicans Andrea Ramírez and Jessica Bonilla.
In the international lot stand out names such as the American Aria Mundy of Orion Racing, sixth overall in the Tour de Gila 2025; the Ecuadorian Miryam Núñez, champion of the race in 2020, and the Guatemalan Jasmín Soto, recent Central American champion in road and time trial, who will race in the Macizo – Banrural of Guatemala.
Team Sistecrédito will have in its roster two former champions of the race, Diana Carolina Peñuela from Caldas, winner in 2022, and Aranza Villalón from Chile, winner in 2019, who will fight for the overall title, along with Natalia Garzón from Santander, double national champion in road and time trial, in the U-23 category, who will seek the title among the young women.
In the national lot stand out names such as Estefanía Herrera, Jessenia Meneses and Lina Marcela Hernández, who will ride in the Mujeres Antioquia Orgullo Paisa; Laura Rojas and Juanita Salcedo, from Boyacá es para Vivirla, and Camila Valbuena and Ana Cristina Sanabria from the Just Cycling Viem Team, who will seek to be protagonists of the race, which will cover more than 636 kilometers.
The final list of participants will be published next Monday, once the registration and document verification process is completed. Women’s Vuelta a Colombia 2025: will begin its official activity on Monday, June 9, with the review of licenses, confirmation of riders and delivery of accreditations.
Source: Revista Mundo Ciclístico