Katarzyna Niewiadoma

She also finished 5th in the under-23 road race at the European Road Championships.

Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma (born 29 September 1994) is a Polish racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam.

She participated in the Holland Ladies Tour, finishing 10th overall and winning the young rider classification.

Niewiadoma was also selected for the road race at the UCI Road World Championships but she did not finish.

She finished 11th overall, and 3rd in the young rider classification, marking a successful debut in the biggest race of the elite women's calendar in her first year as a professional.

Niewiadoma then went on to take her first podium spot in a stage race.

Together with Anna van der Breggen and Vos she dominated racing during the inaugural edition of the Ladies Tour of Norway and placed 3rd, winning the young rider and mountains classifications.

In September, she signed a two-year contract extension with the team and concluded preparations for the World Championships with a start in the Premondiale Giro della Toscana, placing 8th overall.

On a hilly World Championships route in Ponferrada, Spain, she led the Polish team in the road race, coming to the finish in 11th place after a sprint from the selected group.

In her second year as a professional, Niewiadoma shone as one of the best young riders in the peloton, giving Poland results it had never had in women's cycling.

She once again demonstrated her climbing abilities with 6th place in the inaugural edition of the Strade Bianche Donne, and 5th in the prestigious World Cup race La Flèche Wallonne Féminine.

She also took a podium spot in the Holland Hills Classic, finishing behind Lizzie Armitstead and Emma Johansson.

In June she won the Emakumeen Euskal Bira, a five-day stage race in the Basque Country, and won silver in the women's road race at the European Games.

Despite being only 20, Niewiadoma started the season's biggest race – the Giro Rosa – as one of 's leaders, alongside world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Anna van der Breggen.

She assumed the lead of the young rider classification following the second stage, and held on to the top places on the mountain stages.

She then clocked the fifth-fastest time on the demanding route of the penultimate stage, a 21.7 km time trial, and rose to fourth overall with the final stage – culminating in a summit finish – remaining.

The long climb to San Domenico di Varzo proved decisive and Niewiadoma crossed the line in 7th, dropping to 5th overall – although she won the white jersey for best young rider and contributed towards Van der Breggen's overall success.

With those results under her belt Niewiadoma led the Polish national team at the UEC European Road Championships in Tartu, Estonia and took gold in the women's under-23 road race, bridging to the leading group on the last lap and claiming the sprint ahead of Italy's Ilaria Sanguineti and fellow riders Thalita de Jong and Anouska Koster.

She concluded the season at the World Championships in Richmond, Virginia, being a part of a squad that secured bronze in the team time trial.

She also led the Polish team in the road race, and sprinted to 7th place.

Niewiadoma improved on her previous result at Strade Bianche – the first event to be held as part of the UCI Women's World Tour – finishing second to Lizzie Armitstead in Siena.

She added further top-ten finishes at World Tour level, with seventh at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, and tenth at the Tour of Flanders, before taking her first win of the season at the Ronde van Gelderland in a three-rider sprint against Natalie van Gogh and Lieselot Decroix.

After a fourth-place finish at La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, Niewiadoma took a stage victory and the general classification at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs.

She then followed this up with another stage win and general classification double, at the Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol.

At the Polish National Championships, Niewiadoma won both the time trial and road race titles – she won the time trial by 24 seconds ahead of Katarzyna Pawłowska, and the road race by 44 seconds ahead of Anna Plichta.

Moving onto the Giro d'Italia Femminile, Niewiadoma spent a portion of the race in second place overall, before losing more than four minutes on the fifth stage, which dropped her to ninth place; she eventually recovered to seventh overall, winning the young rider classification.

She was part of the leading group during the road race at the Rio Olympics, but was unable to follow moves by five other riders, and missed out on a medal; she ultimately finished in sixth place.

A fourth-place finish at the GP de Plouay – Bretagne followed later in August, before a fifth-place overall finish at the Holland Ladies Tour.

Niewiadoma also won two stages during the race, as well as the points and young rider classifications.

She then won two medals at the UEC European Road Championships in France – she won a silver medal in the women's road race, being beaten in the sprint to the line by her teammate Anna van der Breggen; however, she won a gold medal in the concurrent race for under-23 riders, as the only such rider in the lead group overall.

In 2013, she won two national Under-23 champion titles, finishing 4th overall in both the time trial and road race events.

Following these performances, she received an offer from professional team and became a stagiaire in September 2013.

Niewiadoma signed a one-year contract with in October 2013 and made her debut in the professional ranks in February 2014.

She took her first victory four months later, winning the Swiss race GP du Canton d'Argovie.

Preparing for the Giro d'Italia Femminile, Niewiadoma participated in the Polish National Championships, taking bronze in the time trial and finishing 8th in the road race.

Her climbing abilities proved to be an asset for the team at the Giro d'Italia Femminile, as she worked for the final victory of Marianne Vos on the mountain stages in the Alps.

Among her eighteen professional wins are the Amstel Gold Race in 2019, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio in 2018, and The Women's Tour stage race in 2017.

She has twice finished third overall in the Tour de France Femmes, in 2022 and 2023, taking the Queen of the Mountains jersey in 2023.

In 2023 she became UCI Gravel World Champion.

Born in Limanowa, Niewiadoma started racing bikes with local club WLKS Krakus BBC Czaja and soon emerged as one of the most promising women riders in Poland with TKK Pacific Toruń.