Road racing is back on! On Saturday and Sunday, pros were in Spain at the Challenge Ciclista Mallorca.<\/p>\n
The opening race was the Trofeo Marratx\u00ed-Felanitx.<\/p>\n
Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) started the season off right on a tough 128.8 km route finishing atop Puig de Sant Salvador. The French rider outicked Marlen Reusser (Movistar) in an uphill finale.<\/p>\n
The race featured several WorldTour teams, with Movistar and UAE Team ADQ controlling much of the action throughout the day. Three breakaways animated the race early on. Each escape gained over three minutes at different points, but none were allowed to threaten the overall outcome. As expected, everything came down to the final climb: 5.1 km at an average gradient of 6.5 percent.<\/p>\n
Movistar set a high tempo on the lower slopes of the ascent. In the final kilometres, only Squiban and Reusser remained at the front. When the moment came to decide the race, Squiban attacked Reusser in the finale (with some sharp elbows) to take the win.<\/p>\n
Elbows-out sprint! \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n
Maeva Squiban out-sprints Marlen Reusser to take the win in Trofeo Marratxi-Felanitx. pic.twitter.com\/ldPyFAA0rk<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) January 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n It was the first race out for two of the three Canadian riders on St-Michel \u2013 Preference Home \u2013 Auber93<\/a>. In 2026, Simone Boilard, national champion Alison Jackson and Clara Emond are racing for the French team\u2014which is also co-sponsored by Quebec company Premier Tech.<\/p>\n Emond rode well in the finale, finishing sixth, just 31 seconds in arrears. She, like Jackson, joined the French squad coming from EF Education-Oatly.<\/p>\n On Saturday, Jackson finished 22nd, Lidl-Trek\u2019s Ava Holmgren came in 49th and Laury Milette (Team Abadie Magnan) was 59th.<\/p>\n The women lined up on Sunday at the Trofeo Llucmajor. Movistar\u2019s Cat Ferguson took the dub on the lumpy 134.8 km course, outsprinting Clara Copponi (Lidl-Trek) and Sofie van Rooijen (UAE Team ADQ). Jackson was 13th, and Holmgren 23rd.<\/p>\n \u201cA very tough day in Spain for stage 2 of the Challenge Mallorca,\u201d the team posted<\/a>. \u201cCaught behind during the echelons, Alison Jackson received strong team support to chase back. Alison took second in the sprint of the chase group, 13th overall.\u201d<\/p>\n