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UCI Women's WorldTourUCI code CSR

CANYON//SRAM

2026 wins
2
Race and stage wins
Riders
16
On the current roster
UCI code
CSR
Country
GER

Ronny Lauke founded the squad in 2016, after Velocio-SRAM folded at the end of 2015. He had worked inside that structure through its earlier incarnations as T-Mobile, HTC-Highroad Women and Specialized-lululemon, so the new team started with staff and riders already in place. It registered in Germany, took its bikes from Canyon and its groupsets from SRAM, and took its clothing from the British brand Rapha.

The licence moved up in 2020, when the squad joined the Women's WorldTeam tier as it was introduced. zondacrypto came in as a third title sponsor for 2025 and the team raced that season as CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto, before the name returned to CANYON//SRAM for 2026.

The 2018 world championships at Innsbruck brought the team its first world title, with Alena Amialiusik, Alice Barnes, Hannah Barnes, Elena Cecchini, Lisa Klein and Trixi Worrack winning the team time trial by 22 seconds from Boels-Dolmans. It was the last running of the trade-team event, which the mixed team relay replaced from 2019.

Katarzyna Niewiadoma joined from WM3 Energie for 2018 and won Trofeo Alfredo Binda in her first season with the squad, then the Amstel Gold Race in 2019 and La Flèche Wallonne in 2024. She won the Tour de France Femmes that August, the race ending on Alpe d'Huez with four seconds between her and Demi Vollering. She had finished third overall in 2022 and 2023, and was third again in 2025.

From its first year the team offered a contract to the winner of the Zwift Academy, an online talent search staged on the indoor training platform, which took Leah Thorvilson onto the roster for 2017, Tanja Erath for 2018 and Ella Harris for 2019. A development squad, CANYON//SRAM Generation, followed in 2022, racing at UCI continental level as a route into the senior team.

Latest News

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Lloyds Tour of Britain Women

'I would like to give it a chance' – Zoe Backstedt weighs Tour of Britain Women GC bid

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Lloyds Tour of Britain Women

Tour of Britain Women 2026 favourites: Le Court and Kopecky head a powerful field, with the Great Orme as main GC test

Zoe Backstedt embraces challenging Tour of Britain Women as British field takes shape
Lloyds Tour of Britain Women

Zoe Backstedt embraces challenging Tour of Britain Women as British field takes shape

Show every kilometre first before adding more stages - What next for the Tour de France Femmes?
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026

Show every kilometre first before adding more stages - What next for the Tour de France Femmes?

'I won on Mont Ventoux, I feel like that was the biggest day of my life' - Niewiadoma-Phinney savours Tour podium
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026

'I won on Mont Ventoux, I feel like that was the biggest day of my life' - Niewiadoma-Phinney savours Tour podium

Analysis: 'I lost all my respect for them', but Célia Gery's Tour stage 8 move was hard racing, not a foul
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026

Analysis: 'I lost all my respect for them', but Célia Gery's Tour stage 8 move was hard racing, not a foul

‘This déjà vu came back’ – Vollering turns tables to her favour after seizing Tour de France Femmes lead with stage 8 win
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026

‘This déjà vu came back’ – Vollering turns tables to her favour after seizing Tour de France Femmes lead with stage 8 win

'I just feel so much gratitude' - Niewiadoma-Phinney storms into yellow on Mont Ventoux, but there’s much more racing to come
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026

'I just feel so much gratitude' - Niewiadoma-Phinney storms into yellow on Mont Ventoux, but there’s much more racing to come

'It's gonna be brutal, 100%' - Marlen Reusser takes her 12-second Tour lead onto Mont Ventoux
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026

'It's gonna be brutal, 100%' - Marlen Reusser takes her 12-second Tour lead onto Mont Ventoux

'I was asleep. I don't know what I did',  Reusser keeps yellow but sprint lapse leaves Vollering just 12 seconds back
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026

'I was asleep. I don't know what I did', Reusser keeps yellow but sprint lapse leaves Vollering just 12 seconds back

Team Roster

Agnieszka Skalniak-SójkaPOL
Anastasiya KolesavaBLR
Antonia NiedermaierGER
Chiara ConsonniITA
Chloe DygertUSA
Jane Zoe BackstedtGBR
Justyna CzaplaGER
Katarzyna Anna Niewiadoma-PhinneyPOL
Maike van der DuinNED
Maria MartinsPOR
Maria Rosa KlöserGER
Neve Summer BradburyAUS
Soraya PaladinITA
Tiffany CromwellAUS
Uttrup Cecilie LudwigDEN
Wilma AintilaFIN

16 riders