Team SD Worx–Protime
Dutch cycling team
Team SD Worx - Protime (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. In February 2020, it was announced that Belgian human resource services company SD Worx would become the title sponsor of the team on a four-year deal from 2021. In 2024 the Belgian workforce management solutions company Protime was added as main sponsor and both SD Worx and Protime extended the contract until 2028.
History
The team was founded in 2010 as the Dolmans Landscaping Team.
2013
2014
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, after five years at Specialized–lululemon. On 1 March Sanne van Paassen (Rabobank-Liv Woman Cycling Team) joined the team. 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.
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