U23 road world champion Puck Pieterse is no longer on the start list for the Netherlands at the UCI Road World Championships, as she has withdrawn from the elite women’s lineup scheduled for September 21-28 in Kigalli, Rwanda.
Pieterse, who turned 24 in May, was confirmed two weeks ago to be part of a star-studded seven-rider Dutch roster that includes three-time road race champion Marianne Vos and two-time road race champion Anna van der Breggen, as well as Demi Vollering, who had silver medals from past Worlds in both the road race and time trial.
Replacing Pieterse on the roster is Riejanne Markus, who finished just behind compatriot Marianne Vos, the duo going eighth and ninth, at last year’s Road Worlds in Zürich.
Pieterse earned a bronze medal at the UCI Cyclocross World Championships to start 2025 and then dominated the spring Classics, including one week in April where she won La Flèche Wallonne Féminine and finished on the podium at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Amstel Gold Race. In July, she earned three top 10s at the Tour de France…
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