Who are the women cyclists with 100 UCI road wins?

Lorena Wiebes joined a select club of riders at the 2025 Gent Wevelgem by taking the 100th UCI road win of her still relatively young career. The Dutch rider has been peerless so far in 2025 with 7 wins in 10 races – one of those was a summit finish at Jebel Hafeet, one was Strade Bianche which Wiebes only did last minute to just have a go at the race and Omloop het Nieuwsblad where 2 groups finished ahead and Wiebes won the bunch sprint.

To show the scale of her achievement, she’s only 9 wins behind her first great sprinting rival, Kirsten Wild, with many more years still to go. Teammates Anna van der Breggen and Lotte Kopecky have 63 and 52 wins, respectively, despite their storied careers. Ellen van Dijk is the next highest active rider with 70 wins, and Demi Vollering has still yet to hit 50 wins (47 so far).

In taking her 100th UCI win, Lorena Wiebes joins a small group of riders to achieve that feat – as the 7th rider. Marianne Vos is the clear leader, as you would expect, and the only member of the 250+, 200+ and 150+ wins clubs as well. Her amazing longevity at the top of the sport is borne out by incredible numbers that are unmatched. 2nd for the foreseeable future is the current Lidl-Trek director sportif, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg. Her experience and knowledge of winning bike races is passed down to Lorena Wiebes’ rival, Elisa Balsamo, from the team car.

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Why UCI wins and not just wins?

Women’s cycling has been a thing for well over 100 years but struggled to be codified alongside its male counterpart. In the UK, women were banned from road racing for a period in the 1940s and 1950s, only seeing that overturned around the time of the first iteration of something like a Tour de France for women in 1955. Some of this extended to the track as well, with the first official UCI hour record also coming in 1955 from Tamara Novikova. Such is the power of the UCI version of the record that 2 other attempts would be made that were behind the distance of the last non-UCI record, set in 1952 by Jeannine Lemaire, until Elsy Jacobs beat it with 41.347km in 1958.

Women’s road cycling suffers from a similar issue in that, officially, the first regular UCI races for women weren’t held until 1996, despite international races already existing well before then. Only World Championships and National Championships are counted before then as UCI events for women. All of this presents issues in trying to pull together these records as it’s very much not clear cut what should and shouldn’t be included, unless we use caveats like ‘UCI wins’. For riders like Jeannie Longo, Maria Canins, Marianne Martins, Leontien van Moorsel and Catherine Marsal, large swathes or the entirety of their achievements get omitted. Longo still has 62 UCI wins, and Van Moorsel has 47, but the true figures of what they and others did are much higher.

It’s a similar story when we talk about Women’s WorldTour wins, too. We can pull together WorldTour and Road World Cup wins quite easily, but that classification didn’t start until 1998. With the reboot of the Tour de France Femmes, a lot of attention was paid to the wins of riders from the original ASO races in the 1980s. These wins are revered, form part of the history of women’s cycling and are internationally recognised races but don’t form part of the table below.

Any attempt to bring all these results together into a unified system will be tricky, potentially subjective and the records, predictably, aren’t as available as they are for the men’s races happening at the same time. So for now, we say UCI wins, knowing that it doesn’t quite cover absolutely everything women have achieved on the road.

Women Cyclists with 100 career UCI road wins

Data correct as of 30th March 2025

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