Puck Pieterse

Puck Pieterse burst onto the scene as a young star of the cyclocross discipline during the 2021-22 season, when she took the under-23 world title in Fayetteville, USA ahead of Shirin van Anrooij and Fem van Empel. The trio would make up part of the next generation of top cyclocross riders, with Pieterse then managing five senior wins the season after, including four at World Cups.

She matched this form the year later with six more wins, including the Dutch national title and three more World Cups. The same 2023 season saw her show heaps of potential on the road, and gravel, as she took fifth on debut at Strade Bianche, in what was only her second-ever senior road race. She also became a regular fixture of the elite Mountain Bike world, where she netted her first victories in the short-track and Olympic cross-country disciplines and finished on the podium of both the XCC and XCO races at MTB Worlds in Scotland.

Pieterse became a huge star of the road in 2024 when she completed her first full campaign on the road. She found immediate success in the Classics and finished in the top ten of nearly all her debuts. She podiumed both Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the Ronde van Drenthe on debut before taking sixth at her debut Tour of Flanders. She reached newer heights still at her debut Tour de France Femmes when she outsprinted Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma to a stage win into Liège and finished 11th overall. She also took home the senior MTB XCO World title in Pal Arinsal, Andorra.

In 2025, Pieterse finished off a successful cyclo-cross campaign with third place in the world championships before turning her attention to the Spring Classics, finishing just off the podium in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the Omloop van het Hageland the next day. She finally won her first major road race at La Flèche Wallonne after coming third in the Amstel Gold race. She finished second in Liège-Bastogne-Liège before hitting the MTB circuit. She won two XCO world cups and three in short track.

The 2026 season was equally as strong, and after another bronze at the cyclocross world championships, Pieterse landed on the podium in the Tour of Flanders, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. She wore the polka dot jersey in the Tour de France Femmes.

Key Results

2026

🥈 Liège-Bastogne-Liège

🥈 La Flèche Wallonne

🥉 Tour of Flanders

🥉 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

2025
🥇 La Flèche Wallonne

🥇 UCI MTB World Cup (Nové Mesto - XCC, Leogang - XCO, XCC, Val di Sole - XCO, XCC)

🥈 Liège-Bastogne-Liège

🥉 Amstel Gold Race

🥉 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

2024

🥇 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships Cross-Country Olympic

🥇 Youth classification Tour de France Femmes

🥇 Stage 4 Tour de France Femmes

🥉 Trofeo Alfredo Binda

🥉 Ronde van Drenthe

🥉 Mountains classification Tour de France Femmes

6th Tour of Flanders

2023

5th Strade Bianche

🥉 Cyclocross World Championships Elite

🥇 Cyclocross World Cup x3 - Hulst, Zonhoven, Gavere

2022

🥈 Cyclocross World Championships Elite

🥇 Cyclocross World Cup x4 - Besançon, Val di Sole, Hulst, Overijse

🥇 Dutch national cyclocross championships

2021

🥇 UCI Cyclocross World Championships Under-23