In this Dutch name, the surname is van Empel, not Empel.
Fem van Empel
Van Empel on the podium at the 2022 European Cyclo-cross Championships
Personal information
Nickname
SuperFem [1][2]
Born
(2002-09-03) 3 September 2002 (age 21) 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Height
1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Team information
Current team
Team Jumbo–Visma
Discipline
Cyclo-cross & Road
Role
Rider
Amateur team
2021
WV Schijndel
Professional teams
2021–2022
Pauwels Sauzen–Bingoal
2023
Team Jumbo–Visma
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
World Championships (2023, 2024)
European Championships (2022, 2023)
World Cup (2022–23)
14 individual wins (2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24)
X²O Badkamers Trophy (2022–23, 2023–24)
Medal record
Women's cyclo-cross
Representing the Netherlands
World Championships
2024 Tábor
Elite
2023 Hoogerheide
Elite
2023 Hoogerheide
Team relay
2021 Ostend
Under-23
2022 Fayetteville
Under-23
European Championships
2023 Pontchâteau
Elite
2022 Namur
Elite
2021 Wijster
Under-23
Women's road bicycle racing
European Championships
2022 Anadia
Under-23 road race
Fem van Empel (born 3 September 2002) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist.[3][4] In January 2021, she won the women's under-23 race at the 2021 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[5][6] 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 Feb 2023 at Brussels, Fem clinched the X20 Badkamers Trophy.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9]
Fem Van Empel retained her UCI World Championship at Tábor on 3 February 2024. One respected commentator (Marty McCrossan) noted he had "run out of superlatives to describe Fems phenomenal talent", calling her "The Golden Girl of Cyclocross". Another (Ian Field) described her performance as " pretty much perfection" .[10]
"Velo" noted that "her 18th victory out of what has been (so far) a 20-race season" is "a staggering success rate " [11].Fem completed her 2023 to 2024 season with a win to take the X²O Badkamers Trophy at Lille on 11 Feb. This took her number of wins for the season to 19 from 21 races. [12]
At the end of season 2023 to 2024 Fems' career total number of Elite level Cyclo-cross race wins was 37.
[13][14][15]
^"Meet the 18-year-old cyclocross sensation who's taking it to the world's best". Cycling Tips. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
^"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.
^"Fem van Empel takes U23 world cyclocross title". Velo News. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
^"Fem van Empel wint goud op WK veldrijden voor beloften vrouwen". Wielerflits. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
^"GCN+ | Cycling As You've Never Seen It". plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
^"GCN+ | Cycling As You've Never Seen It". plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
^"Fem van Empel - Cyclocross". Cyclocross24.com. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
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