Fenix Deceuninck head into the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift with a balanced team capable of targeting both stage wins and the overall classification, led by Dutch climber Pauliena Rooijakkers.
After finishing 3rd overall in last year’s edition, Rooijakkers returns as the clear leader. She showed strong form again at the Giro d’Italia Women earlier this month, where she finished 4th overall, and the hillier stages on this year’s nine-day route offer a solid platform for another GC challenge.
Yara Kastelijn adds further climbing firepower, having won a Tour stage to Rodez in 2023 and placed 12th overall at the 2025 Giro d’Italia Women. The team also brings the punchy explosiveness of Puck Pieterse, who claimed victory at La Flèche Wallonne this spring and is set for her Tour de France Femmes debut.
British rider Millie Couzens comes in off the back of a dominant national championships campaign, taking both the elite road race and U23 time trial titles. With a mixed parcours and an individual time trial to finish, her versatility will be a major asset.
Christina Schweinberger arrives as the Austrian national time trial champion, bringing experience and strength across flat and rolling terrain. Marthe Truyen adds a sprint option, having finished 2nd in the Ronde de Mouscron earlier this season, while Flora Perkins rounds out the squad as a support rider with growing climbing ability.
The team heads into the Tour with multiple cards to play, but it’s Rooijakkers who will be the focus when the race hits the hills.
Fenix Deceuninck 2025 Tour de France Femmes line-up
- Pauliena Rooijakkers
- Yara Kastelijn
- Puck Pieterse
- Millie Couzens
- Christina Schweinberger
- Marthe Truyen
- Flora Perkins
