Fem van Empel

Fem van Empel (born 3 September 2002) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist. In January 2021, she won the women's under-23 race at the 2021 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. 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. 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. 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. 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". "Velo" noted that "her 18th victory out of what has been (so far) a 20-race season" is "a staggering success rate " .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. At the end of season 2023 to 2024 Fems' career total number of Elite level Cyclo-cross race wins was 37.

Cyclo-cross

 * 2019–2020
 * 3rd National Junior Championships
 * 5th UCI World Junior Championships


 * 2020–2021
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI World Under-23 Championships
 * UCI World Cup
 * 4th Dendermonde


 * 2021–2022
 * 1st MaillotHolanda.PNG 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 Bronze medal uci.svg UCI World Under-23 Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg UEC European Under-23 Championships


 * 2022–2023
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Elite race
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg UEC European Championships
 * 1st Jersey white.svg 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 Jersey rainbow.svg UCI World Championships
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg 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

Gravel

 * 2023
 * 1st MaillotHolanda.PNG National Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg UEC European Championships

Mountain bike

 * 2019
 * 3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships


 * 2020
 * 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Eliminator, UCI World Championships


 * 2021
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Eliminator, UEC European Championships


 * 2022
 * 1st MaillotHolanda.PNG Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships

Road

 * 2022
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg 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