2024 Edition
The history
The Belgian outfit, then competing on the second-tier circuit in its Plantur–Pura avatar, first entered the Tour in 2022. It is an offshoot from world champion Mathieu van der Poel's Alpecin–Deceuninck men's team, from which it inherited its dual focus on road cycling and cyclo-cross. The Belgian team is tied with Lidl–Trek for the biggest squad in the women's professional peloton (19 riders), keeping its electric blue tones on the map throughout the year.
It is especially strong in cyclo-cross, with the world champions Sanne Cant (2017 through 2019) and Ceylin Alvarado (2020), and especially with the new Belgian prodigy Puck Pieterse, third in the Worlds last winter. However, it is also making good progress on the road. The Dutchwoman Yara Kastelijn launched a blistering solo move on the roads to Rodez to take stage 4 of last year's Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.
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2. As of 12 June, the team had still failed to break its duck this season, but the 22-year-old Puck Pieterse had claimed two WorldTour podium finishes: third in the Miron Ronde van Drenthe and third in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda. The Belgian whiz kid went from strength to strength in the cobbled classics (fifth in Dwars door Vlaanderen, sixth in the Tour of Flanders, and seventh in Gent–Wevelgem).
4. Four Fenix–Deceuninck riders have finished in the top 10 of a WorldTour race this season: Puck Pieterse, Pauliena Rooijakkers (sixth in the UAE Tour and Flèche Wallonne Femmes and ninth in the Vuelta a España Femenina by Carrefour.es), Yara Kasteljin (eighth in the Vuelta and ninth in the Amstel Gold Race), and Christina Schweinberger (seventh in the Miron Ronde van Drenthe and eighth in Gent–Wevelgem).