Shirin van Anrooij: I learned to suffer more than ever at Tour de France Femmes

PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES FRANCE JULY 31 Shirin Van Anrooij of Netherlands and Team Trek Segafredo White Best Young Rider Jersey crosses the finish line during the 1st Tour de France Femmes 2022 Stage 8 a 1233km stage from Lure to La Super Planche des Belles Filles TDFF UCIWWT on July 31 2022 in Planche des Belles Filles France Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images
Shirin van Anrooij (Trek Segafredo) secured the white jersey of the Tour de France Femmes at the top of La Super Planche des Belles Filles (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Trek-Segafredo may not have walked away from the Tour de France Femmes with the hoped for GC podium spot but thanks to the youngest member of the team, Shirin van Anrooij, they still left with a jersey in hand and plans for the future bolstered.

Van Anrooij was part of the Dutch clean sweep of the race jerseys, riding her way into white on the tough terrain of stage 7, taking 17th place on the stage which shredded the field with three category one climbs. That gave the 20 year old a lead of more than five minutes on the second-placed rider in the youth category, Mischa Bredewold of Parkhotel Valkenburg. Still even with that solid gap there was no easy way through the final 123.5km stage ending with the brutally steep finishing ramp on top of La Super Planche des Belles Filles. 

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Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.