Fem van Empel

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In this Dutch name, the surname is van Empel, not Empel.
Fem van Empel
Van Empel at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Benidorm in January 2025
Personal information
NicknameSuperFem [1][2] Fem Van De Poel[3]
Born (2002-09-03) 3 September 2002 (age 23)
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Team information
Current teamTeam Jumbo–Visma
DisciplineCyclo-cross & Road
RoleRider
Amateur team
2021WV Schijndel
Professional teams
2021–2022Pauwels Sauzen–Bingoal
2023Team Jumbo–Visma
Major wins
Cyclo-cross World Championships (2023, 2024, 2025) European Championships (2022, 2023, 2024) World Cup (2022–23) 18 individual wins (2021–22—2024–25) Trophy (2022–23, 2023–24)
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
Women's cyclo-cross
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2025 Liévin Elite
Gold medal – first place 2024 Tábor Elite
Gold medal – first place 2023 Hoogerheide Elite
Gold medal – first place 2023 Hoogerheide Team relay
Gold medal – first place 2021 Ostend Under-23
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Fayetteville Under-23
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Pontevedra Elite
Gold medal – first place 2023 Pontchâteau Elite
Gold medal – first place 2022 Namur Elite
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Wijster Under-23
Women's road bicycle racing
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Anadia Under-23 road race
Women's gravel bicycle racing
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Oud-Heverlee Elite

Fem van Empel (born 3 September 2002) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist.[4][5] In January 2021, she won the women's under-23 race at the 2021 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[6][7] During the 2022–2023 season she won the women's elite race at the World Championships and the European Cyclo-cross Championships. On 22 January 2023, she secured overall victory at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup (2022–23). On 16 February 2023 at Brussels, Fem clinched the X20 Badkamers Trophy.[8] The previous week, her first race in the World Champions jersey, competing in the X20 Badkamers at Lille she finished 1st doing a "Pidcock" (posing as Superwoman) across the finish line.[9] In the cyclo cross season 2023 to 2024 Fem Van Empel was first in her first eleven races. Having finished the previous season with five successive firsts, it brought her run of first places in top level Cyclocross to sixteen.[10] Fem Van Empel retained her UCI World Championship at Tábor on 3 February 2024. One commentator (Marty McCrossan) noted he had "run out of superlatives to describe Fem's phenomenal talent", calling her "The Golden Girl of Cyclocross". Another (Ian Field) described her performance as " pretty much perfection".[11] "Velo" noted that "her 18th victory out of what has been (so far) a 20-race season" is "a staggering success rate".[12] Fem completed her 2023 to 2024 season with a win to take the X²O Badkamers Trophy at Lille on 11 February. This took her number of wins for the season to 19 from 21 races. [13] At the end of season 2023 to 2024 Fem's career total number of Elite level Cyclo-cross race wins was 37. [14] [15] At the completion of Season 2024/2025.Fem had won her third consecutive Cyclocross world Championship, her third consecutive European Championship and had made her third consecutive wins of the prestigious Koppenberg cross, Sven Nys cross, Antwerpen cross and Benidorm UCI World Cup stage. [16] On the 25 October 2025 Fem won The Exact Cross Heerderstrand to take her 50th win in top level Cyclocross.[17][18]

Major results

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Cyclo-cross

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2019–2020 3rd National Junior Championships 5th UCI World Junior Championships 2020–2021 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships UCI World Cup 4th Dendermonde 2021–2022 1st National Under-23 Championships UCI World Cup 1st Val di Sole 1st Flamanville 4th Besançon 4th Rucphen 4th Namur 4th Hoogerheide 5th Zonhoven 5th Hulst Superprestige 2nd Heusden-Zolder Ethias Cross 2nd Lokeren 3rd UCI World Under-23 Championships 3rd UEC European Under-23 Championships 2022–2023 1st UCI World Championships 1st UEC European Championships 1st Overall UCI World Cup 1st Waterloo 1st Fayetteville 1st Tábor 1st Maasmechelen 1st Antwerpen 1st Dublin 1st Benidorm 2nd Beekse Bergen 2nd Overijse 2nd Hulst 3rd Zonhoven 1st Overall X²O Badkamers Trophy 1st Koppenberg 1st Baal 1st Hamme 1st Lille 1st Brussels 2nd Koksijde Exact Cross 1st Kruibeke 1st Beringen 2nd Meulebeke 3rd National Championships 2023–2024 1st UCI World Championships 1st UEC European Championships 1st Overall X²O Badkamers Trophy 1st Koppenberg 1st Kortrijk 1st Herentals 1st Baal 1st Koksijde 1st Hamme 1st Lille 4th Overall UCI World Cup 1st Waterloo 1st Maasmechelen 1st Antwerpen 1st Benidorm 1st Hoogerheide 2nd Gavere 4th Hulst Superprestige 1st Overijse 1st Boom 1st Heusden-Zolder Exact Cross 1st Beringen 1st Woerden 2024–2025 1st UCI World Championships 1st UEC European Championships 2nd Overall UCI World Cup 1st Antwerpen 1st Gavere 1st Besançon 1st Benidorm 2nd Dublin 3rd Dendermonde 4th Hoogerheide X²O Badkamers Trophy 1st Koppenberg 1st Herentals 1st Baal 3rd Koksijde Exact Cross 1st Beringen 1st Kortrijk Superprestige 2nd Ruddervoorde 2nd Overijse 3rd Woerden 2025-2026 1st Woerden 1st Heerderstrand

Gravel

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2023 1st National Championships 2nd UEC European Championships

Mountain bike

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2019 3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships 2020 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships 3rd Eliminator, UCI World Championships 2021 2nd Eliminator, UEC European Championships 2022 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships 2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships

Road

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2022 3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships 2023 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Avenir 6th Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic 8th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships 2024 8th La Flèche Wallonne

References

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  1. ^ "- YouTube". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Superwoman: Fem van Empel wins first race in the rainbow jersey". 12 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Discovery+".
  4. ^ "Meet the 18-year-old cyclocross sensation who's taking it to the world's best". Cycling Tips. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  5. ^ "18-year-old Fem van Empel signs professional contract with Pauwels Sauces: 'The youngest cyclocross topper since Marianne Vos in 2004'". Netherlands News Live. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Fem van Empel takes U23 world cyclocross title". Velo News. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Fem van Empel wint goud op WK veldrijden voor beloften vrouwen". Wielerflits. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  8. ^ "GCN+ | Cycling As You've Never Seen It". plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  9. ^ "GCN+ | Cycling As You've Never Seen It". plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Fem van Empel - Cyclocross". Cyclocross24.com. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Discovery+".
  12. ^ "Fem van Empel Dominates on Muddy World Cyclocross Champs Course in Tábor". 3 February 2024.
  13. ^ "Van Empel rounds off great cyclocross season with victory in Lille".
  14. ^ "Fem van Empel - Cyclocross".
  15. ^ "Fem van Empel - Cyclocross".
  16. ^ "Fem van Empel - Cyclocross".
  17. ^ https://cyclocross24.com/race/17584/
  18. ^ https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fem-van-empel-celebrates-50th-cyclocross-victory-at-muddy-exact-cross-race-with-handmade-sign-hidden-in-her-kit/
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