Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado

Alvarado was born in Cabrera, on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, and grew up in the Netherlands. Knee trouble, glandular fever and pneumonia interrupted her junior years. In the under-23 ranks she won the European title at 's-Hertogenbosch in 2018 and at Silvelle in 2019, with silver at the under-23 world championships in Valkenburg in 2018 and bronze in Bogense in 2019.

She won the Dutch elite title at Rucphen in January 2020, then the world championship at Dübendorf a few weeks later. She, Annemarie Worst and Lucinda Brand went clear after the opening lap and nothing separated them until the final few hundred metres, when Brand slipped back and Alvarado came past Worst out of the last corner. It was the first Dutch win in the elite women's race since Thalita de Jong in 2016.

Later that year she took bronze in the under-23 cross-country race at the mountain bike world championships in Leogang, and the elite European title at 's-Hertogenbosch. Brand took the rainbow jersey the season after, then Puck Pieterse and Fem van Empel came up from the under-23 ranks, and Alvarado spent several winters racing a Dutch field in which three of her rivals had worn it.

She won the World Cup overall in 2023-24, with round wins at Dendermonde, Troyes and Namur, and won at Namur again the following winter along with Zonhoven. Namur, the steepest and most technical round on the calendar, has been her best World Cup venue. She rides a road programme alongside the cross season for the same organisation.

A knee problem kept her out from late September 2025 and cost her nearly two months of the winter. She came back at the Flamanville World Cup in November, started from the second row and finished third, then fell ill, and was second at Antwerp and third at Koksijde over the December rounds.

She won at Zonhoven in January 2026 with Brand second, and was runner-up to Brand at Benidorm and to Pieterse at Maasmechelen. Brand won eight of the twelve World Cup rounds that winter. A second Dutch title came at Huijbergen, ahead of Pieterse and Brand. At the Hulst world championships on 31 January Alvarado was second to Brand, twenty-seven seconds down, with Pieterse third.