Maria Wilhelmina Johanna "Mirjam" Melchers-Van Poppel is a female former racing cyclist from the Netherlands, married to former sprinter Jean-Paul van Poppel. She was one of the leading cyclists in the world, having held the UCI number one ranking as well as winning highly rated races. She was a one-day specialist but has managed smaller stage races.
Joane Somarriba Arrola is a former Spanish cyclist.
Claudia Lichtenberg is a German former professional cyclist, who now works as a coach for German amateur team RSV Irschenberg.
Marta Bastianelli is an Italian former professional racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023. 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.
Pim Ligthart is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2008, and also 2011 to 2020, for the KrolStonE Continental Team, Vacansoleil–DCM, Lotto–Soudal, Roompot–Nederlandse Loterij and Total Direct Énergie teams.
Fabiana Luperini is an Italian professional cyclist. She was born in Pontedera, Italy. Luperini has won the Giro d'Italia Femminile a record five times, with four consecutive victories in 1995–1998 and a fifth ten years later, in 2008. She has won the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale three times consecutively, from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, she won the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, and in 2006 she won the Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira. She retired at the end of the 2014 season.
The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands.
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.
Ashleigh Moolman Pasio is a South African professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's Continental Team AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 16th and in the Women's time trial finishing 24th.
Amanda Spratt is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
The 2012 Emakumeen Euskal Bira was the 25th edition of the Emakumeen Bira, a women's cycling stage race in Spain. It was rated by the UCI as category 2.1, and was held between 7 and 10 June 2012.
SD Worx is a professional cycling team based in the Netherlands, which competes in elite road bicycle racing events such as the UCI Women's World Tour. They have topped the UCI Women's World Tour team ranking in 2016–2019, 2021 and 2022.
The Women's time trial of the 2013 Dutch National Time Trial Championships cycling took place in and around Winsum, nearby the city Groningen, in the Netherlands on 19 June 2013. Winsum got the event due to the success of the 2012 Energiewacht Tour. The individual time trial at the 2013 Energiewacht Tour took place on the same course. Ellen van Dijk was the defending champion, who won the national title at the 2012 Dutch National Time Trial Championships.
The 2013 Emakumeen Euskal Bira will be the 26th edition of the Emakumeen Bira, a women's cycling stage race in Spain. It was rated by the UCI as category 2.1, and was held between 6 and 9 June 2013.
Megan Guarnier is an American former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2019 for the Rabobank–Liv Giant, Boels–Dolmans and Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank teams. She was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Middlebury College in 2007.
The 2014 Emakumeen Euskal Bira was the 27th edition of the Emakumeen Bira, a women's cycling stage race in Spain. It was held from 12 to 15 June 2014 and was raced over four stages. It was rated by the UCI as category 2.1 event. French rider Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the overall classification, as well as two stages.
Pauliena Rooijakkers is a road cyclist from the Netherlands, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Fenix–Deceuninck. She participated at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships in the Women's team time trial for the Dolmans–Boels team.
Eider Merino Cortazar is a Spanish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Lifeplus Wahoo. Prior to joining the Movistar Team in 2018, Merino rode for five years with the Lointek team. Her elder brother Igor Merino is also a professional cyclist, but is currently suspended from the sport.
The 30th running of the Emakumeen Euskal Bira was held from 17 to 21 May 2017. Raced over five stages in the Basque Country, Spain, it had a total distance of 37 km. South African rider Ashleigh Moolman won the event after she won the final stage to Errenteria.
The 32nd running of the Emakumeen Euskal Bira was held from 22 to 25 May 2019. Raced over four stages in the Basque Country, it was one of two women's cycling events at World Tour level in Spain, together with La Madrid Challenge. It was the 12th event of the 2019 UCI Women's World Tour.
Imma De Carlos (ESP)
Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)
