Paula Ostiz
Spanish cyclist (born 2007)
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Paula Jessica Ostiz Taco (born 12 January 2007) is a Spanish cyclist who specializes in road events. She was runner-up in the Junior World Championships road race in 2024. In August 2025, she will join UCI Women's WorldTeam Movistar Team as a stagiaire before joining full-time in 2026.
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| Full name | Paula Jessica Ostiz Taco | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 January 2007 Pamplona, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Café Baqué | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2024–2025 | Café Baqué | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2025 | Movistar Team (stagiaire) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Movistar Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Ostiz participated in cycling during the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, and won silver in the time trial and road race in the girls' class, finishing in both events behind Cat Ferguson.[1][2]
In June 2024, Ostiz won the junior national title in the Spanish National Road Race and Time Trial Championships.[3] On 11 September 2024, Ostiz won the junior time trial at the 2024 European Road Championships in Limburg, Belgium, and two days later, she signed with UCI Women's WorldTeam Movistar Team in 2025 as a stagiaire before becoming a full-time professional the following year, signing a contract until 2028.[4][5] Later that month, she was runner-up in the junior road race at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich, finishing behind Cat Ferguson.[6]
Major results
- 2024
- UEC European Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 6th Road race
- 1st
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Road race - 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st GP Cantabria Deporte
- 1st Campeonato Navarro - ITT
- Lea Artibai Txallengea
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 3
- UCI Road World Junior Championships
- 2nd
Road race - 7th Time trial
- 2nd
- 9th Ronde van Vlaanderen Juniors
- 2025
- UCI Road World Junior Championships
- 1st
Road race - 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- UEC European Junior Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 2nd Clásica de Jaén Juniors
