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 all through the season that gained them general crew classifications within the UCI Rating and the Ladies’s WorldTour.
The highly effective Dutch crew 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 crew on this planet.
“I’m positively happy with that. It reveals that for years we have now managed to be one of the best crew in a very powerful race sequence. To show it, repeatedly, is a big problem. Particularly once you see lately that the competitors is getting greater and greater,” mentioned Sports activities Supervisor Danny Stam.
“Many WorldTour groups have joined, organising a girls’s crew along with a males’s crew. All of them construct a crew round two to a few prime feminine riders. These days, you see that even in girls’s biking the skills are dedicated a lot earlier. To then win the WorldTour for thus a few years in a special composition, I feel, is a superb achievement.”
The Ladies’s WorldTour changed the previous World Cup one-day race sequence in 2016 with then Boels Dolmans topping the charts, and so they have gone on to win crew classifications on the UCI Rating and Ladies’s WorldTour in 2016-2019 and 2021-2022. Trek-Segafredo gained each sequence 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. Their largest achievements 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 general 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 plenty 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 under par in Norway, Sweden and within the Simac Women Tour. If you happen to finish the season in Romandie like that once more, you may be happy. 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 may be happy with. We had one other good season and several other good wins. It isn’t simply these 20 wins but additionally 47 podium finishes. Ladies’s biking has been growing lately. The calendar is getting fuller, and the extent is increased and better. There are extra groups with robust performances throughout the board. It offers me a superb feeling after I see how usually we are able to nonetheless make a mark on a race. After all, you even have a couple of down intervals. If you’re a couple of % much less, you may be instantly crushed. Solely when every part is correct, do you compete for wins. Nonetheless, it will additionally not be good if you happen to win every part 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 past two seasons.
“The Tour de France Femmes is a gamechanger for girls’s biking. That is next-level. Organiser Amaury Sport Organisation shouldn’t be the quickest to introduce girls’s biking, however once 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 a vital second within the season. A peak second that we are going to 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 powerful improvement of key riders developing via their ranks every season. Blanka Vas and Anna Shackley have prolonged their contracts at Workforce SD Worx via 2024.
| Pos. | Rider Identify (Nation) Workforce | Consequence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SD Worx | 9803.02 |
| 2 | Trek-Segafredo | 7998.98 |
| 3 | Workforce DSM | 7536 |
| 4 | FDJ Suez Futroscope | 7261 |
| 5 | Movistar Workforce | 5985.96 |
| 6 | Canyon-SRAM | 5539 |
| 7 | Jumbo-Visma | 3985.04 |
| 8 | UAE Workforce ADQ | 3768 |
| 9 | BikeExchange-Jayco | 3415.02 |
| 10 | Valcar Journey & Service | 2883 |
| Pos. | Rider Identify (Nation) Workforce | Consequence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SD Worx | 11629.01 |
| 2 | Trek-Segafredo | 11277.65 |
| 3 | Workforce DSM | 10671.33 |
| 4 | FDJ Suez Futroscope | 9838.33 |
| 5 | Movistar Workforce | 9378.98 |
| 6 | Canyon-SRAM | 7111.67 |
| 7 | UAE Workforce ADQ | 6027 |
| 8 | Valcar Journey & Service | 5975 |
| 9 | BikeExchange-Jayco | 5298.69 |
| 10 | Jumbo-Visma | 4815.36 |
