Puck Pieterse

Puck Pieterse (; born 13 May 2002) is a Dutch cyclist specializing in road, cyclo-cross and mountain biking. She currently rides for . In 2024 as under 23 world champion in the road race. Pieterse is known for her ability to bunny hop the plank barriers in cyclo-cross races.

Life and career

Puck Pieterse was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Mountain biking and cyclo-cross have been the biggest passions in her life since she was ten years old, with the support of her parents who would take her to every race she attended. In March 2020, Pieterse signed with Alpecin–Fenix with the initial focus being on cyclo-cross and mountain biking. She became the U23 European cyclo-cross champion in 2020, and won the Elite Women's National Cyclocross Champion of the Netherlands in 2023 and 2024.

In 2024, she won the world mountain bike championship in the Cross-country Olympic category. At the 2024 Tour de France Femmes, Pieterse won stage 4 and took the white jersey of the young rider classification. At the 2024 UCI Road World Championships, she became under 23 world champion after finishing 13th overall. In 2025, Pieterse won her first UCI Women's World Tour event, winning La Flèche Wallonne Femmes.

Pieterse secured her first victory of the 2025–26 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup season at the Cyclo-cross Maasmechelen event ahead of teammate Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado. Continuing her success, she completed the weekend with her win at Hoogerheide, clinching to her second World Cup win of the season.

Major results Cyclo-cross

2018–2019 1st National Junior Championships 1st Leudelange 2nd Contern 3rd Pétange 5th UEC European Under-23 Championships 2019–2020 1st UEC European Junior Championships

2nd National Junior Championships 2020–2021 1st UEC European Under-23 Championships 2021–2022 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships

3rd Overall UCI World Cup 1st Under-23 classification 2nd Overijse 2nd Tábor 2nd Hulst 2nd Flamanville 3rd Namur 3rd Hoogerheide 4th Zonhoven 5th Iowa City 5th Fayetteville 5th Besançon 5th Rucphen Ethias Cross 3rd Bredene 3rd National Under-23 Championships 2022–2023 1st UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st National Championships 1st Oisterwijk 2nd Overall UCI World Cup 1st Overijse 1st Hulst 1st Val di Sole 1st Besançon 2nd Tábor 2nd Maasmechelen 2nd Antwerpen 2nd Dublin 2nd Zonhoven 2nd Benidorm 3rd Beekse Bergen 3rd Gavere Superprestige 1st Diegem X²O Badkamers Trophy 1st Herentals

3rd Woerden 2023–2024 2nd Overall UCI World Cup 1st Gavere 1st Hulst 1st Zonhoven 2nd Waterloo 2nd Namur 2nd Troyes 2nd Benidorm 3rd Val di Sole 3rd Antwerpen Superprestige 1st Diegem 2nd Boom 2nd National Championships

X²O Badkamers Trophy 3rd Kortrijk 2024–2025 1st National Championships X²O Badkamers Trophy 1st Koksijde 3rd Baal UCI World Cup 2nd Dendermonde 3rd Namur 3rd Hulst 3rd Gavere 3rd Hoogerheide 4th Maasmechelen 5th Zonhoven

2025–2026 UCI World Cup 1st Maasmechelen 1st Hoogerheide 2nd Dendermonde 3rd Gavere 3rd Zonhoven 4th Namur 4th Antwerpen 5th Koksijde Superprestige 1st Diegem 2nd National Championships X²O Badkamers Trophy 2nd Baal

UCI World Cup results Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points 2018–2019 WAT IOW BER TAB KOK NAM ZOL PON HOO 47 70 2019–2020 IOW WAT BER TAB KOK NAM ZOL NOM HOO 24 198 2020–2021 WAT DUB ZON KOK BES TAB ANT NAM DIE DEN HUL VIL HOO OVE 9 66 2021–2022 WAT FAY IOW ZON OVE TAB KOK ANT BES VAL RUC NAM DEN HUL FLA HOO 3 350 2022–2023 WAT FAY TAB MAA BER OVE HUL ANT DUB VAL GAV ZON BEN BES 2 390 2023–2024 WAT MAA DEN TRO DUB FLA VAL NAM ANT GAV HUL ZON BEN HOO 2 308 2024–2025 ANT DUB CAB NAM HUL ZON GAV BES DEN BEN MAA HOO 8 173 2025–2026 TAB FLA TER NAM ANT KOK GAV DEN ZON BEN MAA HOO 5 225

Mountain bike

2019 5th Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships 2020 1st Cross-country, National Junior Championships

2021 3 Nations Cup 1st Wijster 1st Spaarnwoude 2nd Beringen

2022 1st Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup 1st Leogang 2nd Albstadt 2nd Nové Město 3rd Lenzerheide 3 Nations Cup 1st Houffalize 2nd Wijster

2nd Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships International MTB Bundesliga 2nd Heubach 2023 1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships 1st Cross-country, National Championships 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup 1st Nové Město 1st Leogang 1st Val di Sole 2nd Les Gets 3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne 1st Overall UCI XCC World Cup 1st Les Gets 2nd Leogang 2nd Val di Sole 2nd Snowshoe 3rd Vallnord 3 Nations Cup 1st Wijster

2024 1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships UEC European Championships 1st Cross-country

UCI XCO World Cup 1st Les Gets 2nd Val di Sole 3rd Crans-Montana 4th Nové Město UCI XCC World Cup 1st Val di Sole 1st Crans-Montana 2nd Les Gets 1st Eupen 4th Cross-country, Olympic Games 2025 1st Short track, National Championships UCI XCO World Cup 1st Leogang 1st Val di Sole UCI XCC World Cup 1st Nové Město 1st Leogang 1st Val di Sole International MTB Bundesliga 1st Heubach 2026 UCI XCC World Cup 1st Nové Město 4th Cross-country, UCI World Championships

UCI World Cup results Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points 2023 NOV LEN LEO VAL AND LES SNO MON 1 1939 2024 MAI ARA NOV VAL CRA LES LAK MON 9 1023 2025 ARA ARA NOV LEO VAL AND LES LEN LAK MON 12 1115

Road

2023 5th Strade Bianche 2024 (1 pro win) 1st Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships Tour de France 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 4 Held after Stages 4–5 3rd Ronde van Drenthe 3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen 6th Tour of Flanders 7th Gent–Wevelgem 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 10th Omloop van het Hageland 2025 (1) 1st La Flèche Wallonne 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 3rd Amstel Gold Race 4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 4th Omloop van het Hageland 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen 7th Strade Bianche 7th Trofeo Alfredo Binda 9th Tour of Flanders 10th Milan–San Remo 2026 1st Mountains classification, Tour de France 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2nd La Flèche Wallonne 3rd Tour of Flanders 4th Milan–San Remo 5th Trofeo Oro in Euro 10th Amstel Gold Race

Classics results timeline