TEAM SD WORX - PROTIME

Founded in 2011 as Dolmans Landscaping, a landscaping company, the team quickly established itself as the best in the world. With the arrival of Boels, a Benelux-based tool and machine rental group, it was renamed Dolmans-Boels (2012) and then Boels Dolmans (2013-2020) before being christened SD Worx, after a human resources service provider. Protime, a subsidiary of SD Worx, has been featured as the secondary title sponsor since last year. The structure is Dutch, although SD Worx's head office is in Belgium.  

The team has finished eight of the last nine seasons at the top of the UCI rankings – a dominance only interrupted in 2020 by Trek-Segafredo – and has won seven of the previous ten world road race titles: Elizabeth Armistead (2015), Amalie Dideriksen (2016), Chantal Blaak (2018), Anna van der Breggen (2017 and 2020) and Lotte Kopecky (2023, 2024). Van der Breggen forged most of her success in this team, winning the Amstel Gold Race, the Tour of Flanders, Strade Bianche, two Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes victories, three of her four Giro crowns, and five of her seven Flèche Wallonne Femmes titles.  

After retiring in 2021, the Dutch star remained with the team as a sporting director before returning to racing this season to discover the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Before this unexpected comeback, Demi Vollering, whom VDB coached and managed, succeeded her as the world's best climber. In 2023, the Dutch rider achieved the Ardennes triple before sealing her Tour victory in the fog of the Tourmalet, where she took the Yellow Jersey from teammate Lotte Kopecky. And last year, she was just four seconds short of retaining her crown at the top of Alpe d'Huez. Vollering now rides for FDJ-Suez, where she will face off against her former mentor Van der Breggen.