Movistar’s Annemiek van Vleuten could have dominated on the largest stage races at Giro d’Italia Donne and Tour de France Femmes, however it was SD Worx‘s consistency in gaining factors with wins, podiums and within the high 10 all through the season, whereas additionally creating up-and-coming expertise, that has gained them total staff classifications within the UCI Rating and the Ladies’s WorldTour.
The highly effective Dutch staff has topped each rankings for six of the earlier seven seasons as they maintain a good grip on their standing as essentially the most dominant girls’s staff on the earth.
“I’m undoubtedly happy with that. It reveals that for years we’ve managed to be the very best staff in a very powerful race collection. To show it, repeatedly, is a big problem. Particularly whenever you see in recent times that the competitors is getting larger and larger,” mentioned Sports activities Supervisor Danny Stam.
“Many WorldTour groups have joined, establishing a girls’s staff along with a males’s staff. All of them construct a staff round two to a few high feminine riders. These days, you see that even in girls’s biking the abilities are dedicated a lot earlier. To then win the WorldTour for therefore a few years in a distinct composition, I feel, is a superb achievement.”
The Ladies’s WorldTour changed the previous World Cup one-day race collection in 2016 with then Boels Dolmans topping the charts, they usually have gone on to win staff classifications on the UCI Rating and Ladies’s WorldTour in 2016-2019 and 2021-2022. Trek-Segafredo gained each collection rankings in 2021.
This yr, SD Worx secured 20 victories, and 11 of these had been a part of the Ladies’s WorldTour in 2022. It wasn’t their most profitable season by way of the variety of victories, nevertheless. Final yr, the staff took 33 wins, and in 2018 they’d 26 wins, in 2017 they’d 28 wins, and in 2016 they’d 38 wins.
Their largest achievements this yr included Lotte Kopecky’s wins at Strade Bianche and Tour of Flanders, Demi Vollering successful the general title at Itzuia Ladies, Marlene Reasseur successful a stage and Vollering was second total on the Tour de France Femmes, and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio closed out the season with the general win at Tour de Romandie.
“We began the season very strongly. So the Spring Classics went nicely with good victories within the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Strade Bianche and Brabantse Pijl, amongst others. That spring created a whole lot of expectations. In Spain, we nonetheless raced nicely, however then we had a down interval. Within the Tour de France Femmes, we had been good once more. Then we carried out beneath par in Norway, Sweden and within the Simac Women Tour. In case you finish the season in Romandie like that once more, you could be glad. That additionally reveals the resilience inside the group,” Stam mentioned.
Stam additionally acknowledged the significance of consistency on a global calendar that’s rising each season to incorporate longer and more difficult races.
“[The UCI World Ranking] is one thing we could be happy with. We had one other good season and several other good wins. It is not simply these 20 wins but additionally 47 podium finishes. Ladies’s biking has been creating in recent times. The calendar is getting fuller, and the extent is larger and better. There are extra groups with robust performances throughout the board. It provides me a superb feeling after I see how typically we will nonetheless make a mark on a race. After all, you even have just a few down durations. If you’re just a few % much less, you can be instantly overwhelmed. Solely when every thing is correct, do you compete for wins. Nevertheless, it will additionally not be good for those who win every thing all yr,” Stam mentioned.
This yr noticed the rebirth of the ladies’s Tour de France Femmes, an occasion that Stam referred to as a ‘gamechanger’ in girls’s biking. He praised ASO for its work in including girls’s occasions to each marquee occasions, Paris-Roubaix and Tour de France, over the last two seasons.
“The Tour de France Femmes is a gamechanger for ladies’s biking. That is next-level. Organiser Amaury Sport Organisation will not be the quickest to introduce girls’s biking, however after they go for it, one thing is straight away in place. We noticed that final yr with Paris-Roubaix and now definitely with the Tour de France Femmes,” he mentioned.
“It’s abundantly clear that this stage race might be an important second within the season. A peak second that we’ll be dwelling in direction of. After all, the spring with the Monuments retains its worth, however the significance of the Tour de France Femmes is already very excessive after only one version.”
SD Worx has positioned a precedence on signing up-and-coming expertise, which has led to a robust growth of key riders arising via their ranks every season.
Blanka Vas and Anna Shackley have prolonged their contracts at Staff SD Worx via 2024. Together with Niamh Fisher-Black and Lonneke Uneken, they’re 4 of the most important skills in girls’s biking, they usually plan to proceed to develop and hone in on their particular targets throughout the subsequent two years, guaranteeing the way forward for the staff on the highest stage.
| Pos. | Rider Title (Nation) Staff | Consequence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SD Worx | 9803.02 |
| 2 | Trek-Segafredo | 7998.98 |
| 3 | Staff DSM | 7536 |
| 4 | FDJ Suez Futroscope | 7261 |
| 5 | Movistar Staff | 5985.96 |
| 6 | Canyon-SRAM | 5539 |
| 7 | Jumbo-Visma | 3985.04 |
| 8 | UAE Staff ADQ | 3768 |
| 9 | BikeExchange-Jayco | 3415.02 |
| 10 | Valcar Journey & Service | 2883 |
| Pos. | Rider Title (Nation) Staff | Consequence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SD Worx | 11629.01 |
| 2 | Trek-Segafredo | 11277.65 |
| 3 | Staff DSM | 10671.33 |
| 4 | FDJ Suez Futroscope | 9838.33 |
| 5 | Movistar Staff | 9378.98 |
| 6 | Canyon-SRAM | 7111.67 |
| 7 | UAE Staff ADQ | 6027 |
| 8 | Valcar Journey & Service | 5975 |
| 9 | BikeExchange-Jayco | 5298.69 |
| 10 | Jumbo-Visma | 4815.36 |
