Lotte Kopecky

The SD Worx-Protime sprinter won all three stages as well as the overall title and points competition in complete domination of the WorldTour race.

SD Worx-Protime secures future through 2028 as 'mega contracts' continue to capture WorldTour's top talent: 'We are committed to our project.'

Top riders topped up their bank accounts with generous payouts during the one-days, but the Tour de France remains cycling's biggest payday.

Team manager accepts SD Worx-Protime is less dominant: ‘We always maintained that we would not be able to achieve another season like 2023’

The first of the Ardennes Classics promises dramatic racing on twisting, hilly courses.

Tour de Hoody: More controversy, a quiet chicane, the fastest Roubaix (again), and does 'hors délai' belong in a race as cruel as the 'Hell of the North'?

New mother Ellen van Dijk one of the strongest in the race: ‘This was nothing compared to giving birth.’

A selection of images documenting a gripping day of racing in northern France.

Belgian rider adds another special trophy to an ever-expanding collection.

The world champion swapped the brand’s Roubaix endurance bike, named for this race, for the aero race Tarmac model.

World champion denies Balsamo and Georgi in the velodrome to make perfect comeback from disappointment at Tour of Flanders.

From the sectors to the stars, to plot lines and pavé, here's everything you need to know for Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Roubaix Femmes.

Team CEO Erwin Janssen insists he hoped to keep team toppers Kopecky and Vollering together in 2025: 'It hurts a lot'.

World champions Lotte Kopecky and Mathieu van der Poel headline the Belgian monument with some key route alterations: 'The Kortekeer and the Kanarieberg will not be included in the course this year.'

Paternoster kicks to breakthrough podium ride against the top favorites in a race that was neutralized due an incident on the course.

Elisa Balsamo second in photo finish, with Chiara Consonni best of the rest.

Spring classic will see many key names fight it out over the famous bergs of Flanders.

Select group fights out for victory at end of tough Italian climbing race, Balsamo proves quickest.

A look at an incredible day’s racing on the white roads of central Italy.

‘It just sucks being all the time there but not getting the victory’ - Polish rider frustrated by near misses in Strade Bianche.

SD Worx-Protime teamwork makes Kopecky's dream work at Strade Bianche as world champion's confidence for spring classics grows.

World champion kicks at 500m from the line for emphatic victory in Siena, Vollering rounds out podium for SD Worx-Protime 1-3.

Questions over Vollering's future and tension-riddled final last spring hang over SD Worx-Protime's Strade Bianche favorites.

Face-off: Will the longer, harder courses on tap for 2024 ruin or raise the dirt-road classic? Our editors argue it out.

Sepp Kuss, Tadej Pogačar, Demi Vollering, and Ruth Edwards headline the new-look gravel extravaganza over the iconic white roads that will be the hardest edition ever.

Tour de Hoody: Kopecky and Vollering splitting up could be the best thing for women's racing, and Americans banging on monument's door.

Veteran Vos out-duels 'super team' SD Worx-Protime to open the classics campaign with a big win.

Podium Picks: It's not all Kopecky and Van Aert, our editors debate the outsiders and key narratives of the cobblestone curtain-raiser.

SD Worx-Protime pens world champion through 2028, speculation grows about Vollering's destination for next season: 'We have to make choices.'

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is the traditional opener of the Belgian calendar, and marks the first salvo of the glorious run of the spring classics.

Who will win Omloop? Take a peek at the star-studded start lists for the women's and men's races to kickoff the spring classics in Belgium's 'opening weekend.'

The perfect Valentine's day cards for the special someone in your life, whether they're a cyclist or not.

Tour de Hoody: Cycling's 'Mick Jagger' exits stage left, the growing Middle East footprint, Kopecky's on fire, and American fans might finally have the sprinter star they've been waiting for.

Lotte Kopecky seals overall success in confirmation world champion is in sparkling early season form.

World champion proves best atop the Jabel Hafeet climb and now leads the UAE Tour with one day to go: 'This is my first mountain top finish victory-it's crazy!'

World road race champion adds more gold medals to her trophy cabinet.

The Dutch squad was the dominant women's team in 2024 with Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky, Marlen Reusser, and Lorena Wiebes locking out the top positions in the UCI rankings.

Belgian coach Sven Vanthourenhout to decide if he wants more leaders or if he'll bring two domestiques to support Evenepoel and Van Aert.

Mathieu van der Poel and Lotte Kopecky earn laurels as best one-day racers in the prestigious cycling awards dating back to 1992.

Dutch rider unleashed perfectly-timed attack on the final lap as tactics prove vital.

It's a star-studded line-up for this week's European Championships in the Netherlands as riders race for a last chance of glory in 2023.

Current world champion triumphs overall while multiple rainbow jersey winner ends pro career.

Niewiadoma aggressive during hilly stage, launches key move on final ascent of Cauberg.

Bunch sprint settles stage after earlier breakaway.

Belgian rider takes 12th victory of the season with win in individual time trial.

Follow all the action as Annemiek van Vleuten races for the last time at six-day Dutch tour.

2023 will be the second year that separate men's and women's prizes are awarded.

The 27-year-old becomes the first Belgian road race world champion in 50 years.

Demi Vollering and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig round out the podium.

The likes of Demi Vollering and Lotte Kopecky are the five-star favorites but there are plenty more stars looking to grasp the rainbow this Sunday.

Cobbled climbs, marathon time trials, and a gnarly Glasgow circuit all feature in the 2023 races for men's and women's rainbow jerseys.

The yellow jersey won 50,000 euros and SD Worx won nearly half of the entire prize pot in women's cycling's biggest payday.

Canyon-SRAM leader just 11 hundredths away from second place, with clear progress having been made.

Lotte Kopecky seals second place with surprise GC performance.

SD Worx sweeps time trial top-3, Van Vleuten slides off final podium in last grand tour before retirement.

Follow the latest news and headlines for the 2nd Tour de France Femmes.

Belgian rider ‘definitely proud’ to win points classification, fired up to secure yellow with teammate.

Chasing sprinters caught in pileup 900m out; US star Veronica Ewers crashes 50km out, loses almost ten minutes to GC favorites.

Day proves more selective than expected, with bunch being thinned out.

A ten minute breakaway, a long-range solo stage winner and a big GC shakeup.

Race within a race delivers sparks in a long, grueling day of attrition.

Yellow jersey Lotte Kopecky leads out Wiebes and then takes third.

Dramatic pursuit between peloton and breakaway rider.

It was a battle between a breakaway and the sprinters at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

Stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes saw Movistar square off against SD Worx.

Lotte Kopecky cannot fend off the German star, but she retained her yellow jersey in a hectic, crash-marred stage.

Belgian describes the 2022 race as her 'worst week on the bike.'

SD Worx-Protime kick-starts its Tour campaign in style as Lorena Wiebes finishes second from the chase group.

A day suited to breakaway riders or puncheurs.

Longo Borghini, Skjelmose, Kopecky among other big winners in blockbuster weekend of national road championship racing.

The Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège take different approaches to their men's and women's races. What works and what doesn't?

SD Worx does it again as Vollering goes solo for squad's 11th win of the season, teammate Kopecky sprints in for second.

Tour de Hoody: The extremes are exaggerated to almost grotesque limits, but the 'Hell of the North' grips the peloton unlike any race on the calendar.

'I thought my ankle was broken.' Belgian star battles back from pileup in final 40km but left with seventh in the velodrome.

Here's what the main protagonists said after the 'Hell of the North.'

Canadian ace wins six-rider breakaway sprint as Kopecky, Longo Borghini and all other top favorites lose their opportunity.

Who can claim the treasured cobblestone trophies this weekend? Here's our guide to the favorites and outsiders.

From the sectors to the storylines, here's all you need to know before Van Aert, Kopecky, Van der Poel roar toward Roubaix.

Belgian says that she would do the same thing at Strade Bianche if SD Worx found itself in the same situation.

The Belgian believes that the Koppenberg should be put later in the Flanders course after carnage on the cobbles.