Eva van Agt soloed to victory for FDJ United-SUEZ in Saturday’s La Périgord Girls, marking the Dutch rider’s first skilled victory.
In addition to Van Agt’s win, the race was an important day for FDJ because it was the primary race for his or her latest signing, US nationwide champion Kate Courtney, who joined the workforce with instant impact final Monday.
The multidisciplinary star acquired her first style of success with the WorldTour’s most profitable workforce of 2026 thus far, serving to Van Agt to the win and ending fifteenth herself – FDJ’s finest finisher behind the winner.
The hilly race between Rouffiac and Boulazac in southwestern France break up aside within the tough finale, with Van Agt going solo 2.2km from the end to say not solely her first win of 2026 since signing for FDJ, however certainly her first-ever win as an expert since transitioning from college-level hockey.
A bunch of seven riders sprinted for second place behind her, with Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Crew ADQ) grabbing the runner-up spot forward of Liv AlUla Jayco’s Mackenzie Coupland.
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Courtney got here in in a gaggle three minutes down on the winner, sprinting for fifteenth.
The subsequent day, FDJ took on one other race within the south of France, La Picto en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the place Nicole Steigenga (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) took the win however Courtney took the French workforce’s finest outcome, sprinting to thirteenth within the lead group to cap off a profitable debut weekend for the workforce.
In an Instagram video posted by FDJ United-Suez, Courtney says to Van Agt after La Picto, „What a tremendous pull, thanks a lot.“
„It was so enjoyable racing with you, I realized loads,“ she goes on to say, earlier than Van Agt replies, „Oh yeah, she is robust.“
Although this weekend was Courtney’s first time racing for her new workforce, it was not her first style of street race success in Europe, with the 30-year-old taking a stage win on the Tour de Féminin with the US nationwide workforce in Might.
Her debut street season with FDJ will proceed at August’s Tour of Britain Ladies, with the remainder of her racing schedule nonetheless to be confirmed.
