As the 2025 women’s road season drew to a close, Dutch stars who shone throughout the year went exploring new horizons. Some have gone on vacation, while Lorena Wiebes expanded her collection of distinctive jerseys with rainbow conquests at the Bolero UCI Gravel World Championships, in the Netherlands, then the Tissot UCI Track World Championships in Chile. Their wheels seem to always be in motion – but now it’s time to sit back and celebrate the feats accomplished on roads all around the world since January.
After months of global competition, Vollering tops the individual 2025 UCI World Ranking, reclaiming the spot she had previously occupied at the end of 2023, before Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky dominated in 2024. At the same time, and with strong contributions from the likes of Elise Chabbey and Juliette Labous, Vollering’s new team FDJ-Suez is on top of the UCI World Ranking for teams for the first time in its history. FDJ-Suez topples Team SD Worx-Protime, which had ruled the teams ranking since 2016 (except for 2020, when the disrupted calendar saw the Trek-Segafredo team slip in between two periods of dominance by the Dutch team).
This year, the Dutch outfit came second with a tally of 11,115.13 points, bolstered by Wiebes’ achievements. In her best season to date, the 26-year-old sprinter cumulated 4,326 points, the second highest score of the season, behind Vollering’s 4,642.57 points. With such a stellar duo to spearhead them, the Netherlands dominate the UCI World Ranking for nations (14,422.99 points) ahead of Italy (9,683.29).
Vollering proud of FDJ-Suez team work
“Another one to never forget,” Vollering wrote as she reflected on “a year that started like a fresh beginning” as she joined FDJ-Suez after four seasons with Team SD Worx-Protime. “Everything felt new, yet so familiar. My goal at the start of the season? To be successful as a team, and I’m damn proud of how we did it.”
As soon as she returned to competition, mid-February at the Setmana Ciclista Volta Femenina de la Comunitat Valenciana, Vollering raised her arms in victory as she got the better of a former Team SD Worx-Protime partner, Switzerland’s Marlen Reusser (now Movistar Team), who also rose to be a driving force this season (third in the individual ranking with 3,397.14 points).
Vollering went on to win the Strade Bianche Donne, La Vuelta España Femenina by Carrefour.es, Itzulia Women, the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya Femenina and the road race at the UEC European Championships in France. She also podiumed UCI Women’s WorldTour events such as the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Omloop Nieuwsblad, La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes and the Tour de Suisse Women, as well as the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda.
“We’ll come back next year to fight even harder,”Vollering announced, with a strong focus expected on chasing the yellow jersey – she won the French Grand Tour in 2023 and came second to Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) this year – and the rainbow jersey, looking to improve on her two silver and one bronze medals so far at the UCI Road Championships.
Wiebes expands her horizons
Vollering took a total of 11 wins in 2025, a tally matched by Reusser, who claimed – on the day after her 34th birthday – the individual time trial (ITT) rainbow jersey she had been chasing for years. Only one rider has been scoring at a higher frequency this year: Wiebes, with 25 wins.
Just like Vollering, Wiebes was victorious as soon as she returned to road competition, back in February, with three stage wins at the UAE Tour Women. Her Classics campaign was stellar, with notable wins at Milano-Sanremo, Classic Brugge-De Panne and Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields.
Also featuring on the podium of Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift (3rd), Wiebes showed an expanding array of skills that enable her to succeed in many different settings, as illustrated by the Simac Ladies Tour. Out of six stages, she won five, mastering pure sprints, echelons and cobbles. And since she also performed in the ITT of the Dutch UCI Women’s WorldTour stage race, she also claimed the overall standings ahead of Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek), Italy’s second best scorer of 2025 behind Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ).
All in all, 1,634 riders representing 114 nations scored points in the 2025 UCI World Ranking. And the stage is already set for exhilarating global battles in 2026!