2014 Boels–Dolmans season
The 2014 women's road cycling season was the fifth for the Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team, which began as the Dolmans Landscaping Team in 2010. The main new rider for the team was the Time Trial World Champion Ellen van Dijk, after have ridden 5 years for Specialized–lululemon. After winning the Omloop van het Hageland in early March, Lizzie Armitstead won also 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. In begin April, after a solo of 30 km Ellen van Dijk won the Tour of Flanders World Cup race.
Ellen van Dijk riding solo to victory at the Tour of Flanders.
Ellen van Dijk won silver at the Dutch Time Trial Championships, only 0.02 seconds behind Annemiek van Vleuten.
Boels–Dolmans line up at the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen.
Lizzie Armitstead after winning Stage 1 Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen.
Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time trial specialist and is five times world champion. She won her first world title on the track in the scratch race in 2008. She became Road World Champion in 2012, 2013 and 2016 with her respective trade teams in the team time trial and in 2013 also in the individual time trial. In 2015, she won the time trial at the first European Games and the silver medal in the team time trial at the world championships.
Van Dijk after taking the silver medal at the 2022 European Championships
Van Dijk with her family and friends in 2016
Ellen van Dijk in 2011, riding for HTC-High Road.
Ellen van Dijk supported by Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his family at the 2012 Summer Olympics.