Rosa Klöser may have just spent nine days racing the Tour de France Femmes, supporting her Canyon-SRAM teammate Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney in a finely balanced battle for yellow, but just because that huge challenge has been completed doesn't mean the time has now come for the German rider to put her feet up. Instead, the multi-discipline racer and Life Time Grand Prix competitor has another entirely different debut ahead at Leadville Trail 100 MTB.
The unconventional path, however, is well-trodden territory for the rider who made a late entry into competitive cycling while still a PhD student. She went from being a commuter to a local racer in 2022, became a gravel racer in 2023 and then quickly rose to the top of the gravel world in 2024 by winning Unbound 200 on debut. Klöser then also joined Canyon-SRAM on the road in 2025 and quickly proved her competence in another discipline, debuting at Paris-Roubaix in her first season and finishing a more than respectable 31st, all while still delivering gravel results near the top of the standings.
