Personal information | |
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Born | Loon op Zand, Netherlands | 1 April 2001
Team information | |
Current team | Liv Racing–Xstra |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
2021–2022 | Lotto–Soudal Ladies |
2022– | Liv Racing–Xstra |
Silke Smulders (born 1 April 2001) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour team Liv Racing–Xstra.[1]
Smulders competed at the 2020 European Road Championships in the women’s under-23 road race where she was the lead-out rider for Lonneke Uneken, who won the silver medal. Due to this performance and her performance during the 2020 Trophée des Grimpeuses, she earned a professional contract in 2021 with Lotto–Soudal Ladies.[2] While she missed a part of the season due to a knee surgery she had some good results. She had a good Dutch national championships and finished 5th in the youth classification of the 2021 Giro Rosa. Smulders moved in 2022 to a main women’s cycling teams Liv Racing–Xstra.[3] Smulders competed at the 2022 Tour de France Femmes.