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Puck Pieterse will do the Cyclocross World Championship with the ELITEs!

The very strong Dutch, born in 2002, chose not to defend the rainbow jersey among the U23s to try the coup in the Elites. But she won't be the only one!

Written by

David Finetto

January 15 2023

pieterse wins vermiglio 2022 val di sole cyclocross

Puck Pieterse with arms raised on the Vermiglio 2022 finish line (Credits: Giacomo Podetti)

Puck Pieterse, in the Cyclocross World Cup, has already shown that he can compete with the strongest Elite despite his young age. And for the world championship he is not satisfied with the U23 shirt, already on his shoulders, but he wants to win the "real" one, that is to say in the queen category of the Elites. It must be said that, this year, the Elite world championship is the affair of the U23s: the 2002 class is terrible and we find other U23s who will participate as Elites.

fem van empel wins antwerp 2022 — Fem Van Empel wins in Antwerp 2022 – ©Eurosport/GCN

VAN ANROOIJ Shirin wins exact cross 2022 Leonhout — Fem Van Empel wins in Antwerp 2022 – ©Eurosport/GCN

For Fem van Empel the choice was forced, given that she has already faced the European Championship in the Elite class (winning it) and the Jumbo Visma Team does not want to compromise. We await news from Shirin van Anrooij: the Baloise Trek Lions cross rider dominated the last round of the Cup among the Elites, so she too would have no problems trying the challenge in the premier class. All these athletes are born in 2002!

And by the way, today's news, Puck Pieterse wins the Dutch title among the Elites! Third Van Empel.

Our Italian Silvia Persico will have her work cut out for these terrible young girls.

In this article:Cyclocross, Hoogerheide, World Cup, Racing World, World Cyclocross Racing, Puck Pieterse

Written by David Finetto

[email protected] I am a fan of everything that has 2 wheels: at a young age I practiced road and track cycling (Italian Allievi champion). At the age of 18 I passed into the cross country competing at national/international level as an Under23. Past Elite, I made the choice to take things more lightly from a training point of view, and my love for gravity disciplines was born, training me as an FCI MTB instructor and guide. Now I have made passion my profession by managing 2 MTB centers on the island of Elba (Bike Center Elba and Elba MTB), creating the FANTAmtb and telling in an ironic but professional way everything that revolves around MTB thanks to 365mountainbike and 365TV (YouTube'PULITI dentro BIKER fuori').