Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time trial specialist and is five times world champion. She won her first world title on the track in the scratch race in 2008. She became Road World Champion in 2012, 2013 and 2016 with her respective trade teams in the team time trial and in 2013 also in the individual time trial. In 2015, she won the time trial at the first European Games and the silver medal in the team time trial at the world championships.
The Tour of Flanders, formerly the Tour of Flanders for Women, is an annual road bicycle racing event in Flanders, Belgium, held in early April. It is held on the same day as the men's race, on much of the same roads but at a shorter distance. Dutch riders Mirjam Melchers, Annemiek van Vleuten, Belgian Lotte Kopecky and German Judith Arndt hold the record with two wins each. Lotte Kopecky won the most recent edition in 2023.
Marta Bastianelli is an Italian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam UAE Team ADQ. Bastianelli won the women's road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships ahead of Marianne Vos and Giorgia Bronzini, and also won the equivalent race at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships, again beating Vos.
Elizabeth Mary Deignan is an English professional world champion track and road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. She was the 2015 World road race champion.
Emma Karolina Johansson is a Swedish retired professional racing cyclist. Nicknamed Silver Emma, Johansson accumulated many second and third places at major championships and one-day classics. In 2013 she finished the year as number one on the UCI Women's World Ranking.
Shelley Olds is an American former professional racing cyclist.
Alena Vasileŭna Amialiusik is a Belarusian road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam UAE Team ADQ.
Lisa Brennauer is a German former racing cyclist, who rode professionaly between 2009 and 2022, for six different teams.
The 2012 Tour of Flanders for Women was the ninth edition of the Tour of Flanders for Women single-day cycling race. The race took place on April 1, 2012, covering a distance of over 127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi). It was the third race of the 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup season. Both the start and finish were in Oudenaarde, Belgium and 70 cyclists took part in the race.
The 2013 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine is the 16th running of the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, a women's single-day cycling race held in Belgium and is the fourth race of the 2013 UCI Women's Road World Cup season. The race was held on 17 April 2013 over a distance of 131.5 kilometres.
The 2013 Tour of Chongming Island World Cup is the fourth running of the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup, a women's single-day cycling race held in China and is the fifth race of the 2013 UCI Women's Road World Cup season. The race was held on 12 May 2013 over a distance of 126.8 kilometres.
The 2013 Open de Suède Vårgårda – team time trial will be the 6th team time trial running on the Open de Suède Vårgårda and the 6th race of the 2013 UCI Women's Road World Cup season. It will be held on 16 August 2013 over a distance of 42.5 kilometres.
The 2013 GP de Plouay will be the 13th running on the GP de Plouay, a women's road race in Plouay, France. It will be held on 31 August 2013 over a distance of 135 kilometres and is the eight and final race of the 2013 UCI Women's Road World Cup season.
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam SD Worx. In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway.
The 2014 women's road cycling season was the fifth for the Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team, which began as the Dolmans Landscaping Team in 2010. The main new rider for the team was the Time Trial World Champion Ellen van Dijk, after have ridden 5 years for Specialized–lululemon. After winning the Omloop van het Hageland in early March, Lizzie Armitstead won also the first World Cup race, the Ronde van Drenthe. She would finish later three times in second place in the later World Cup races and keeping the lead in the overall World Cup classification. In begin April, after a solo of 30 km Ellen van Dijk won the Tour of Flanders World Cup race.
Lotte Kopecky is a Belgian road and track racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam SD Worx, and the 2023 UCI Elite Women's World Road Race Champion. She is a multiple world champion on the track, having won six gold medals across four UCI Track Cycling World Championships; she won the madison in 2017 and 2022, the points race in 2021 and 2023, and the elimination race in 2022 and 2023.
The 2015 Tour of Flanders for Women was the 12th running of the Tour of Flanders for Women, a women's bicycle race in Belgium. It was the third race of the 2015 UCI Women's Road World Cup season and was held on 5 April 2015 over a distance of 144.9 kilometres, starting and finishing in Oudenaarde.
2013 UCI Women's Road World Cup 
