 Smulders in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 April 2001 Loon op Zand, Netherlands |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Liv AlUla Jayco |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2020 | Watersley Race & Development CT |
| Professional teams | |
| 2021 | Lotto–Soudal Ladies [1] |
| 2022–2023 | Liv Racing–Xstra [2] |
| 2024– | Liv AlUla Jayco |
Silke Smulders (born 1 April 2001) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Liv AlUla Jayco. [3] [4]
Smulders competed at the 2020 European Road Championships in the women's under-23 road race where she was the lead-out rider for Lonneke Uneken, who won the silver medal, while Smulders placed 9th. Due to this performance and her result at the 2020 Trophée des Grimpeuses, she earned a professional contract in 2021 with Lotto–Soudal Ladies. [5] That season, she finished 5th in the youth classification of the 2021 Giro Rosa. Smulders moved in 2022 to a Liv Racing–Xstra. [6] She competed at the 2022 Tour de France Femmes. After the team folded at the end of 2023, she signed with Liv AlUla Jayco in 2024.
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