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Fem van Empel (born 3 September 2002) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist. In January 2021, she won the women's under-23 race at the 2021 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. During the 2022–2023 season she won the women's elite race at the World Championships and the European Cyclo-cross Championships. On 22 January 2023, she secured overall victory at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup (
UCI World Under-23 Championships
: 
National Under-23 Championships
: 
UCI World Under-23 Championships
: 3rd 
UEC European Under-23 Championships
;2022–2023
: UCI World Championships
::1st Elite race
::1st Team relay
: 1st 
UEC European Championships
: 1st 
Overall UEC European Championships
:
National Championships
: 2nd 
UEC European Championships
Eliminator, UCI World Championships
;2021
: 2nd Eliminator, UEC European Championships
;2022
: 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
: 2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
;2023
: 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Avenir
: 6th Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic
: 8th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
2022–23
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On 16 Feb 2023 at Brussels, Fem clinched the X20 Badkamers Trophy. The previous week, her first race in the World Champions jersey, competing in the X20 Badkamers at Lille she finished 1st doing a "Pidcock" (posing as Superwoman) across the finish line.
In the cyclo cross season 2023 to 2024 Fem was first in her first eleven races. Having finished the previous season with five successive firsts, it brought her run of first places in top level Cyclocross to sixteen.
Major results
Cyclo-cross
;2019–2020 : 3rd National Junior Championships : 5th UCI World Junior Championships ;2020–2021 : 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships
: UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale:
* UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004)
* UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015)
* UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
* UCI Track Cycling World Cup
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::4th Dendermonde
;2021–2022
: 1st National Under-23 Championships
: UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale:
* UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004)
* UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015)
* UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
* UCI Track Cycling World Cup
...
::1st Val di Sole
::1st Flamanville
::4th Besançon
::4th Rucphen
::4th Namur
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::4th Hoogerheide
::5th Zonhoven
::5th Hulst
: Superprestige
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::2nd Heusden-Zolder
: Ethias Cross
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::2nd Lokeren
: 3rd UCI World Under-23 Championships
: 3rd UEC European Under-23 Championships
;2022–2023
: UCI World Championships
::1st Elite race
::1st Team relay
: 1st UEC European Championships
: 1st Overall UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale:
* UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004)
* UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015)
* UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
* UCI Track Cycling World Cup
...
::1st Waterloo
::1st Fayetteville
::1st Tábor
::1st Maasmechelen
::1st Antwerpen
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::1st Dublin
::1st Benidorm
::2nd Beekse Bergen
::2nd Overijse
::2nd Hulst
::3rd Zonhoven
: 1st Overall X²O Badkamers Trophy
::1st Koppenberg
::1st Baal
::1st Hamme
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::1st Lille
::1st Brussels
::2nd Koksijde
: Exact Cross
The Exact Cross is a season-long cyclo-cross competition, formerly known as the Ethias Cross and the Brico Cross, consisting of 8 rounds throughout the season in Belgium and the Netherlands. It is one of six season-long competitions, alongside th ...
::1st Kruibeke
::1st Beringen
::2nd Meulebeke
: 3rd National Championships
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;2023–2024
: 1st UEC European Championships
: UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale:
* UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004)
* UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015)
* UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
* UCI Track Cycling World Cup
...
::1st Waterloo
::1st Maasmechelen
::1st Antwerpen
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::2nd Gavere
::4th Hulst
: Superprestige
The Cyclo-cross Superprestige is a season-long cyclo-cross competition, consisting of around 8 rounds throughout the season in Belgium and the Netherlands. It is one of three season-long competitions, alongside the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup and t ...
::1st Overijse
::1st Boom
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::1st Heusden-Zolder
: X²O Badkamers Trophy
::1st Koppenberg
::1st Kortrijk
::1st Herentals
::1st Baal
::1st Koksijde
: Exact Cross
The Exact Cross is a season-long cyclo-cross competition, formerly known as the Ethias Cross and the Brico Cross, consisting of 8 rounds throughout the season in Belgium and the Netherlands. It is one of six season-long competitions, alongside th ...
::1st Beringen
: 1st Woerden
Gravel
;2023 : 1st National Championships
: 2nd UEC European Championships
Mountain bike
;2019 : 3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships ;2020 : 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships : 3rd Eliminator, UCI World Championships
;2021
: 2nd Eliminator, UEC European Championships
;2022
: 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
: 2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
Road
;2022 : 3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
;2023
: 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Avenir
: 6th Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic
: 8th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
References
External links
* * 2002 births Living people Dutch female cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) Cyclo-cross cyclists Sportspeople from 's-Hertogenbosch Cyclists from North Brabant 21st-century Dutch women Cyclists at the 2023 European Games European Games competitors for the Netherlands {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-stub