Laurens ten Dam, Piotr Havik and Ivar Slik have been a number of the seven elite males named to the wild card roster for the Dutch nationwide workforce headed to the UCI Gravel Global Championships, October 7-8. Riejanne Markus used to be a number of the elite girls’s picks, with the biking federation of the Netherlands (KNWU) confirming Demi Vollering and Annemiek van Vleuten.
KNWU named a complete of 14 riders for wild card entries forward of the UEC Gravel Eu Championships on October 1, the place 9 of those riders will likely be at the get started strains to take part. Your complete Dutch roster for Worlds used to be anticipated till after the Eu Championships this Sunday in Belgium.
Ten Dam, who used to be 2d at Unbound Gravel 200 in 2021 and fourth within the subsequent two outings, is the one one of the most seven males no longer headed the UEC Gravel race this weekend. Slik, the 2022 Unbound Gravel 200 champion, and Havik, who used to be 3rd at Gravel One Fifty within the Netherlands in July, will likely be joined by means of Jasper Ockeloen, Niki Terpstra, Sebastian van Oranje and Lars Loohuis.
Ockeloen had a robust gravel season in 2023, scoring 2d on the Belgian Waffle Experience in California, 3rd at Gravel Grit ‘n Grind in Sweden, and tenth at Unbound. Terpstra gained the Swedish spherical of the UCI Gravel Global Collection. Loohuis gained the elite males’s gravel identify at Dutch nationals in early September, with Van Oranje taking the bronze. Of the seven males at the wild card roster, all however Van Oranje and Loohuis have retired from professional highway racing.
Previous this week, two-time highway Global Champion Van Vleuten and reigning Excursion de France Femmes winner Vollering published thru Dutch media reviews with AD and Wielerflits that they might participate within the season-ending gravel race for rainbow stripes.
Becoming a member of the 2 WorldTour stars will likely be any other top-tier highway rider Riejanne Markus (Jumbo-Visma), who used to be the highest finisher amongst a two-rider Dutch girls’s workforce eventually 12 months’s Gravel Global Championships, completing tenth general. She’ll be joined by means of WorldTour professional Femke Markus, who rides on Workforce SD Worx with Vollering, and Yara Kastelijn of Alpecin-Deceuninck, who has 3 times completed 5th for elite girls on the Cyclocross Global Championships.
Noa Jansen and Tessa Neefjes have revel in at the highway, and the duo have probably the most revel in on gravel. Neefjes used to be the bronze medalist for elite girls at this 12 months’s gravel nationals and had seven peak 10s at UCI Gravel Global Collection occasions, together with wins at 3RIDES in Germany and Gravel Problem Blaavands in Denmark. Jansen used to be 3rd at Gravel Problem Blaavands and Gravel Journey in Poland. They’re going to race on the UEC Gravel Championships with Kastelijn.
Different notable Dutch girls competing Sunday within the Eu Gravel Championships are Fem van Empel, the Dutch nationwide gravel champion and the bronze medalist on the 2023 Cyclocross Global Champion for elite girls, and Pauliena Rooijakers, who completed 2d at gravel nationals and gained two rounds of the Gravel Global Collection in 2023 at Houffa Gravel and Gravel One Fifty.
Athletes certified for the Gravel Global Championships all through the season at 16 UCI Gravel Global Collection occasions in elite classes and age staff divisions. Collaborating countries also are allowed to make a choice as much as 20 further athletes as wild playing cards within the elite classes.
The elite girls’s race on the Gravel Global Championships takes position on a 140km course on Saturday, October 7, the day earlier than Van Vleuten’s forty first birthday. The elite males’s race follows on Sunday throughout 169km.
Dutch wild card roster – elite males
- Laurens ten Dam
- Niki Terpstra
- Ivar Slik
- Jasper Ockeloen
- Piotr Havik
- Sebastiaan van Oranje
- Lars Loohuis
Dutch wild card roster – elite girls
- Annemiek van Vleuten
- Demi Vollering
- Tessa Neefjes
- Yara Kastelijn
- Noa Jansen
- Femke Markus
- Riejanne Markus