Fenix-Deceuninck have introduced Puck Pieterse’s upcoming schedule for the cyclocross season, with the multi-discipline star set to journey 12 races in preparation for the World Championships in Liévin, France on February 1.
Pieterse completed third on the Worlds final season in Tabor and second the 12 months prior in Hoogerheide, nonetheless, can be trying to go one higher with victory and a second elite rainbow jersey so as to add to the one she gained in Mountain Biking this previous September.
“The countdown begins! Our multi-talent Puck Pieterse is able to conquer the 2024-2025 cyclocross season!” learn a social media put up from Fenix-Deceuninck.
“First cease: the World Cup in Namen on December 15. Last vacation spot: the Cyclocross World Championships in Liévin, France, on February 1.”
She’ll make her highly-anticipated 2024-25 season debut on the fourth spherical of the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Namur after that competitors kicks off this weekend in Antwerp.
Pieterse gained 4 races throughout final 12 months’s cyclocross season on the Zonhoven, Hulst and Gavere UCI World Cup rounds and the Superprestige Diegem.
It is a considerably later begin than Pieterse’s debut final season when she made her first cyclocross look again in October on the World Cup spherical in Waterloo. Nevertheless, it does come after Pieterse rode an intense summer time schedule together with the Paris Olympics, Tour de France Femmes and MTB World Championships.
The latter two occasions noticed her get pleasure from nice success, with a maiden Tour de France Femmes stage win on debut into Liège, after narrowly pipping Demi Vollering to the road, and a primary senior world title at MTB worlds in Pal Arinsal, Andorra.
Pieterse rode her first full highway season in 2024 and to nice success, with debuts on the Tour of Flanders, Gent-Wevelgem and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad all ending together with her taking top-10 finishes.
She additionally completed eleventh total on the Tour de France Femmes, whereas additionally profitable the most effective younger rider’s white jersey, and managed thirteenth on her debut on the elite highway World Championships highway race.
Pieterse has shortly develop into one of many greatest multi-discipline stars within the sport and can look to have a fantastic cyclocross season forward of her subsequent highway and mountain bike campaigns starting in 2025.
Puck Pieterse’s 2024/25 cyclocross schedule
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Namur – December 15
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Hulst – December 21
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Zonhoven – December 22
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Gavere – December 26
- Superprestige Diegem – December 30
- X20 Trofee Baal – January 1
- X20 Trofee Koksijde – January 3
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Dendermonde – January 5
- Dutch Nationwide Championships – January 12
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Benidorm – January 19 [TBC]
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Maasmechelen – January 25 [TBC]
- UCI Cyclocross World Cup Hoogerheide – January 26
- UCI Cyclocross World Championships Liévin – February 1
