top-10 elite men\u2019s result at Nove Mesto World Cup<\/a>. That earned him a ticket to Paris where he then represented Canada at the Games alongside his younger sister, Isabella Holmgren.<\/p>\nIn 2025, Holmgren\u2019s best results came when the World Cup series returned to North America at the tail-end of the season. He finished 26th at Lake Placid in the elite men\u2019s XCO.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoyed meeting all the driven people behind Trek and racing in the colors for a year,\u201d Holmgren said. \u201cI\u2019ll miss my teammates and the support from everyone at the factory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before Trek, Holmgren raced with KMC MTB Racing, Pivot Cycles OTE and, slightly further back, Stimulus Orbea.<\/p>\n
Isabella Holmgren and her sister Ava Holmgren, will continue to represent Lidl-Trek on the road. Both sisters also drop into the Trek Factory Racing XC pits for the occasional World Cup or world championships event. Isabella, of course, is the reigning under-23 world champion in XCO and XCC<\/p>\n
Munro moves on after launching her career with Trek<\/p>\n
Madigan Munro leaves TFR after five seasons with the team, starting when the U.S. rider was just 18. Munro raced both cyclocross and cross country for the team, earning a Pan-American title, finishing third overall in the U23 women\u2019s XCO and XCC World Cup standings in 2024 and, along the way, earning five World Cup podiums during that breakout season.<\/p>\n
In her debut elite season, Munro worked her way through the field to finish with a trio of top 20 placings, starting in Lenzerheide and continuing closer to home at Lake Placid.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis journey has propelled my professional career and shaped me as both an athlete and a person,\u201d Munro said. \u201cIt is with sadness that the team and I part ways, but the cycling community is a tightly knit one, and I know our paths will continue to cross on the circuit. Now it\u2019s time to see what great things this next chapter will bring.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trek Factory Racing DH also says good bye to Italian junior Chris Hauser as 2025 wraps up.<\/p>\n
Trek Factory Racing XC\u2019s returning quartet<\/p>\n
With Holmgren and Munro departing, TFR returns a quartet of cross country racers. Long-time team member Evie Richards leads the charge, continuing to deliver results in short track and Olympic-distance cross country. A U.S.A. duo of Riley Amos and Gwendalyn Gibson will also be back in TFR colours as they play their part in the resurgence of U.S. cross country on the international scene. Romania\u2019s Vlad Dascalu returns to round out the team, for now. With the UCI\u2019s new points-based structure, we can expect a few new names to join TFR\u2019s ranks in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a season with Trek Factory Racing XC, Orillia, Ontario\u2019s Gunnar Holmgren is moving on. The U.S.A.\u2019s Madigan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,190330,190331,117138,85,190332,190333],"class_list":{"0":"post-343749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-gunnar-holmgren","12":"tag-madigan-munro","13":"tag-mtb-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-trek-factory-racing","16":"tag-trek-factory-racing-xc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}