SD Worx (UCI team code: SDW) is a professional cycling team based in the Netherlands, which competes in elite road bicycle racing events such as the UCI Women's World Tour. They topped the UCI Women's World Tour team ranking in 2016–2019 and 2021–2024.
Between 2012 and 2020, the team's title sponsors were the Dutch equipment rental company Boels Rental and Dolmans Landscaping, a Dutch civil engineering company.[1] In February 2020, it was announced that Belgian human resource services company SD Worx [nl] would become the title sponsor of the team on a four-year deal from 2021.[2][3]
The team was founded in 2010 as the Dolmans Landscaping Team.[3]
At a special press conference in October 2013 it was announced that the Dutch time trial World Champion Ellen van Dijk would join the team after signing a three-year contract,[4] after five years at Specialized–lululemon. On 1 March Sanne van Paassen (Rabo–Liv) joined the team.[5] After winning the Omloop van het Hageland in early March, Lizzie Armitstead also won the first World Cup race, the Ronde van Drenthe. She would finish later three times in second place in the later World Cup races and keeping the lead in the overall World Cup classification. At the beginning of April, after a solo of some 30 kilometres (19 miles), Ellen van Dijk won the Tour of Flanders World Cup race.
The team started the season with the Ladies Tour of Qatar. Ellen van Dijk won the second stage and took the lead in the general classification.
In preparation for the 2017 season, the team signed Anna van der Breggen from Rabo–Liv.[6] The team also extended the contracts of Megan Guarnier, Chantal Blaak, Christine Majerus, Amalie Dideriksen, Nikki Brammeier, Lizzie Armitstead and Karol-Ann Canuel.[6] Ellen Van Dijk left the team to join Team Liv–Plantur.[6] On 11 August, Evelyn Stevens announced she would retire at the end of the season.[7]
In 2021, the team won seven events including Strade Bianche Donne, Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, La Course by Le Tour de France and The Women's Tour. The team won the UCI Women's World Tour, team classification for the fifth time in six seasons. Anna van der Breggen retired at the end of the season, but continued to work for the team as directeur sportif.[8]
In 2022, the team won the UCI Women's World Tour team classification for the sixth time in seven seasons. In August 2022, it was announced that Dutch sprinter Lorena Wiebes had signed a contract with the team.[9]
In 2023, the team dominated the UCI Women's World Tour, winning 15 races including Strade Bianche Donne, Tour of Flanders, all three Ardennes classics and the Tour de France Femmes. At the Tour, the team dominated the event, with 1st (Demi Vollering) and 2nd place (Lotte Kopecky) in the overall classification, 1st in the points classification (Kopecky), four stage wins, as well as the team classification. The team won both the individual classification with Demi Vollering, as well as the team classification.
In 2024, the team again dominated the UCI Women's World Tour, winning 14 races including Strade Bianche Donne, Paris–Roubaix Femmes and the La Vuelta Femenina. The team missed out on winning the Tour de France Femmes by four seconds, after a crash for Vollering early in the race.[10] The team won the UCI Women's World Tour individual classification with Lotte Kopecky, as well as the team classification.[11] In October 2024, Vollering announced that she would be leaving the team at the end of the season, joining FDJ–Suez.[12]
Anna van der Breggen returned to the professional peloton for the 2025 season with her former team.[13]
Former riders: list of riders