Karlijn Swinkels

Karlijn Swinkels (born 28 October 1998) is a Dutch road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .

As a junior, she competed at 2015 UCI Road World Championships in the women's junior road race (15th) and at the 2016 European Road Championships in both the junior time trial (6th) and road race (33rd). At the 2016 UCI Road World Championships she became world champion in the women's junior time trial event.

Major results

2015 National Junior Road Championships 3rd Road race 3rd Time trial 3rd National Junior Cyclo–cross Championships 2016 1st Time trial, UCI World Junior Road Championships 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 2nd Overall Albstadt-Frauen-Etappenrennen 3rd Overall Energiewacht Tour Juniors 6th Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships 10th Gent–Wevelgem Juniors 2018 7th Time trial, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships 10th Team time trial, UCI World Road Championships 2019 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 9th Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda WestSweden TTT 2020 5th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues 7th Time trial, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships 2021 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 4th Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs 2022 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal 3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour 4th Postnord Vårgårda WestSweden TTT National Road Championships 5th Time trial 9th Road race 6th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs 10th Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023 1st Overall Tour de la Semois 1st stage 1 & 2

4th Gent-Wevelgem 5th Clasica Femenina Navarra 7th Classic Lorient Agglomération 8th Ronde van Drenthe 8th Overall Holland Ladies Tour 1st Mountains classification 2024 1st Grand Prix de Wallonie 1st Points classification Thüringen Ladies Tour 1st Overall AG Tour de la Semois 1st Points classification 2nd Trofeo Oro in Euro 3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 3rd Dwars door het Hageland 4th Le Samyn Des Dames 4th Kreiz Breizh Elites 5th Classic Lorient Agglomération 6th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 6th Overall Holland Ladies Tour 10th Time trial, National Road Championships 2025 1st Trofeo Oro in Euro 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2nd La Périgord Ladies 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie 5th Overall UAE Tour Women 6th Surf Coast Classic 8th La Picto–Charentaise 2026 1st Challenge Mallorca Femenina | Trofeo Binissalem-Andratx 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 2nd Trofeo Oro in Euro 3rd In Flanders Fields (Wevelgem-Wevelgem) 5th Challenge Mallorca Femenina | Trofeo Marratxi-Felanitx 5th Challenge Mallorca Femenina | Trofeo Llucmajor 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 6th Tour of Flanders 9th Dwars door Vlaanderen