Jessie Walker joins Italy-based UCI team Servetto Footon

Jessie Walker has joined the Piedmont-based Servetto Footon team for the rest of the 2015 season.

The Sheffield-born 20-year-old, who represented Great Britain at the 2012 World Junior Championships, recently parted ways with Matrix Pro Cycling after four years with the squad.

She is now expected to ride for her new team at the Giro del Trentino on June 20 and the Giro Donne on July 3.

>>>Catching up with… Jessie Walker

Recent weeks' racing have seen something of a breakthrough for the daughter of Chris Walker, who won five stages of the 1991 Milk Race on his way to overall victory as well as picking up the points and combine jerseys.

Jessie has claimed victories in the Yorkshire Regional Road Race Championships on May 17 and at the Shrewsbury Grand Prix two weeks later, as well as a highly creditable fifth place in a strong field at the Milk Race.

And she will now be looking to emulate the success on Italian shores of her father, who won four stages in the 1991 Settimana Bergamasca.