Valenciana stage win marks breakthrough victory for 19-year-old Elise Uijen

Elise Uijen (Team DSM) celebrates her stage win on the final day of the 2023 Setmana Valenciana Feminès
Elise Uijen (Team DSM) celebrates her stage win on the final day of the 2023 Setmana Valenciana Feminès (Image credit: Alex BroadwayGetty Images)

Elise Uijen's win on stage 4 of Setmana Ciclista Valenciana marked a breakthrough win for the 19-year-old, as well as a sign of things to come for Team DSM as they look for victories without their former headline riders.

After being in the breakaway for all of stage 3, working right until the end with a series of last-ditch attacks, Uijen again found herself in the decisive move that went in the middle of stage 4.

Matilda Price is a freelance cycling journalist and digital producer based in the UK. She is a graduate of modern languages, and recently completed an MA in sports journalism, during which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of young cyclists. Matilda began covering cycling in 2016 whilst still at university, working mainly in the British domestic scene at first. Since then, she has covered everything from the Tour Series to the Tour de France. These days, Matilda focuses most of her attention on the women’s sport, writing for Cyclingnews and working on women’s cycling show The Bunnyhop. As well as the Women’s WorldTour, Matilda loves following cyclo-cross and is a recent convert to downhill mountain biking.