Justine Ghekiere

Justine Ghekiere (born 14 May 1996) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was on the Belgium team that supported Lotte Kopecky to her two wins in the 2023 and 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland resp. Zurich, Switzerland and she was on the Belgium team that supported Lotte Kopecky to her bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

In 2024, Ghekiere won the mountains classification at both the Tour de France Femmes and the Giro d'Italia Women.

In 2025 she won her biggest victory to date finishing first in the Belgian National Road Race Championships.

Personal life Ghekiere worked as a fitness instructor and personal trainer when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. With fitness studios closed in Belgium, she took part in and won a Zwift challenge to ride the most distance in one week where the prize was a fitness test with a coach in her native Belgium. Her test results were so impressive that the coach sent them to a number of prospective cycling teams and she was offered a first contract with the team.

Major results 2022 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie 9th À travers les Hauts-de-France 10th Overall Thüringen Ladies Tour 1st Mountains classification 2023 1st Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 1st Mountains classification 5th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria 8th Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2024 Tour de France 1st Mountains classification 1st Stage 7 Combativity award Stage 4 1st Mountains classification, Giro d'Italia 5th Grand Prix de Wallonie 7th Road race, UCI World Championships 2025 1st Road race, National Road Championships 6th Overall Tour Down Under 2026 9th Overall UAE Tour