Hello 2025!

All the CX results + road season is so close!

Hello lovely subscribers and welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly: Your weekly round-up of all things news, content, racing, and more from the world of women’s cycling.

Happy new year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas period. There’s not been tooooo much going on since we’ve been away but there has been plenty of cyclocross racing, a few more team announcements and some interesting articles to read. So, let’s get 2025 started!

Amy x

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News 📰

• Current mountain bike marathon world champion, Mona Mitterwallner, will join the women’s WorldTour this year with Human Powered Health. “It was always on my radar and now after the Olympics, I wanted to try something new. I wanted to get out of my old routine and see if I could improve as a rider,” she said.

• Fears have been raised that a section of the 2026 World Cyclocross Championships course in Hulst is ‘dangerous’ after British rider Cat Ferguson crashed out and was taken to hospital.

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Read 🗞️

• Women’s salaries are on the rise, but not for all - Escape Collective

• Kristen Faulkner on Olympic Gold: ‘USA Cycling Said I Had a 6 Percent Chance of a Medal’ - Velo

• The top-10 riders of the women’s 2024 racing season - Rouleur

• Three-race Challenge Mallorca Femenina attracts six top-tier teams in second edition - Cycling News

• ‘It has felt like cycling didn’t want me anymore’ Heidi Franz on fragility, resilience and holding onto the dream - Rouleur

• 30-minutes a day indoors to winning a pro race: Zoe Bäckstedt's on her 2024 comeback and beyond - Cycling Weekly

• 'I’m excited to see what we can do' - Ruby Roseman-Gannon to lead Liv-AlUla-Jayco at Women’s Tour Down Under - Cycling News

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Watch 📺

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Results 🏆

CX

UCI World Cup #4 Hulst

1. Marie Schreiber 🇱🇺

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱

UCI World Cup #5 Zonhoven

1. Ceylin Del Carmen Alvarado 🇳🇱

2. Zoe Backstedt 🇬🇧

3. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

Superprestige #5 Mol

1. Ceylin Del Carmen Alvarado 🇳🇱

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Inge van der Heijden 🇳🇱

UCI World Cup #6 Gavere

1. Fem van Empel 🇳🇱

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱

Exact Cross #5 Loenhout

1. Marion Norbert Riberolle 🇧🇪

2. Sanne Cant 🇧🇪

3. Imogen Wolff 🇬🇧

UCI World Cup #7 Besançon

1. Fem van Empel 🇳🇱

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Blanka Vas 🇭🇺

Superprestige #6 Diegem

1. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

2. Ceylin Del Carmen Alvarado 🇳🇱

3. Inge van der Heijden 🇳🇱

X2O Trofee #5 Baal, GP Sven Nys

1. Fem van Empel 🇳🇱

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱

X2O Trofee #6 Koksijde

1. Puck Pieterse 🇳🇱

2. Lucinda Brand 🇳🇱

3. Fem van Empel 🇳🇱

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Upcoming races 📆

CX

Saturday 4th January: Superprestige #7 Gullegem

How to watch:

Live on Discovery+ from 13:30 CET

Sunday 5th January: World Cup #8 Dendermonde

How to watch:

Live on Discovery+ from 13:30 CET

Start list here

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That’s all 👋

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