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.

Key Results

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