A Memorable Five From 2025 Reliving Some of the Season's Powerful Performances
Posted by Andrew Davidson on December 16, 2025
With rosters solidified, team camps underway, and the 2026 season fast approaching, we wanted to take a look back at some of the highs of 2025 for our 4iiii athletes, before they’re at it again. From ultra-distance off-road events to Tour de France Femmes sprints, our riders have been making an impact on all terrains around the world this year. Check out our list of five of the countless performances that stood out to us this season.
Kate Ricardson’s Bounce-Back Season and British National Title
Kate’s winning sprint to the line and the British title!
In the words of famed football coach Vince Lombardi, “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” Kate Ricardson, of the Scottish Handsling-Alba Development Road Team, is the cycling embodiment of that sentiment. Her 2025 season was a triumph of the human spirit as much as it was on the results sheet.
The 2024 season had been one of hard knocks, including a hit-and-run while riding and a team collapse that put her future in jeopardy. She bounced back emphatically to claim several career milestones this year with her new squad. She took the overall GC and her first UCI win at the Tour de Feminin in May, later following it up with a gutsy performance and powerful sprint to win the British National Circuit Race title, held in Aberystwyth, Wales. She not only garnered the national championship jersey to wear next season, but also a renewed confidence that her path to the WorldTour and the Olympics is still within reach.
A British National Title for a rider with true grit.
CUBE Factory Racing XC Riders Double Up On World Titles at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
What could be better than a world championship title and the coveted rainbow jersey that comes with it? Two of them, of course! That’s exactly the fairytale scenario that CUBE Factory Racing XC were living out at this year’s UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Riding for their respective nations, Maruša Šerkezi (Slovenia) took the Junior Women’s XCO win and hometown favourite Finn Treudler (Switzerland) took the U23 title. Both riders came to the line solo after commanding, technically masterful rides on the spectator-packed course.
Some key data figures from their rainbow-winning days in Switzerland:
Maruša – Normalized Power: 243W, Max Power: 713W
Finn – Normalized Power: 357W, Max Power: 1200W
Cameron Jones Wins Unbound Gravel 200 in Record-Setting Time - Earns Wild Card Spot in the LifeTime Grand Prix
Cam and his daylong breakaway partner, Simon Pellaud, getting “stuck in.”
Having worked with Cam for several seasons now and seeing the massive power output and talent he possessed, we knew it was only a matter of time until the stars aligned for a breakthrough performance in the Life Time Grand Prix.
The 2025 Unbound Gravel, with its 200 miles of zig-zagging roads through the Flint Hills of Kansas, proved to be the stage for such an arrival at the top. It was as perfect a script as one could hope to write for a debut win in the series. Cam put himself in an early two-man break, spent the majority of the day out front with fellow escapee Simon Pellaud, growing their gap over the favorites, and rode clear in the closing kilometers to take the solo win in a record-breaking time of 8:37:09. Simultaneously, he locked up a “wildcard” spot in the LTGP—BOOM!
Cam’s post-race stats showed a whopping Normalized Power of 327W for the big day out, which was just the beginning of a massive season.
A lot of celebration post-race… a career-defining win, a new course record, and a wild-card spot!
Sarah Van Dam Cracks Top-10 At Debut Tour de France Femmes
All smiles at her debut Tour de France Femmes.
There’s no shortage of Canadian-born talent on the rise in the pro peloton as of late, and among the names at the forefront of the ascending generation of future stars is Sarah Van Dam. In just her first year racing a WorldTour calendar in 2025, with the Ceratizit-WNT team, the now 24-year-old has stacked some impressive results on her palmares.
Among those achievements are multiple top 5 stage results and a 3rd place on GC at Itzulia Women stage race (sharing a podium with Demi Vollering), 5th place on GC at the Tour of Britain, and an impressive top 10 stage result (10th) at her debut Tour de France Femmes, on stage 4.
Having come from a track-focused background, she used her positioning and sprinting abilities to put herself within striking distance of the podium. It seems safe to say her transition to the European peloton has been pretty seamless. With a move to Visma-Lease A Bike this off-season, she’s one to keep an eye on in 2026 for even bigger results.
Navigating a stage of the Tour de France femmes and hunting for a big result.
Speaking on her equipment set-up from last season, which entailed 4iiii partner Orbea Bikes, Sarah noted, “I’ve been really pleased with the setup this season. It is my first time on an Orbea bike, and it is incredibly responsive and fast, especially on the flats. The 4iiii power meter has been reliable and consistent. I really like numbers and analyzing my performance post-training and racing, so having reliable tools is really important to me.”
Kait Boyle and Sid Schutz Combine Forces At Marji Gesick Mtb Race - Become First Women To Go Sub-12hrs
Kait Boyle, the first woman to cross the line sub-12 hours in the race's Foto de @robmphoto
Marji Gesick is an incredibly demanding 106-mile mountain bike race in Marquette, MI. Its course leads riders on a tour of the trails around Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with a stout 10,000 feet of elevation gain along the way. The technical trails force at least a little hike-a-bike. For 10 years, women had yet to “buckle” - finishing in under 12 hours, in what American mountain bike legend Jeremiah Bishop calls the hardest single-day mountain bike race in the country.
This year, 4iiii athletes Kate Boyle and Syd Schultz, along with friends Julie Momber and Kristy McBride (Pivot Racing), agreed to collaborate and work together, with the goal of getting at least one of them across the line in under 12 hours… and they did it!
Kait and Syd, a 1-2 punch and a record broken after a day of teamwork. Foto de @robmphoto
In Kait’s own words, “Syd, Julie and I worked together for 85 miles of the race, while Kristy was close behind on her singlespeed Pivot Les SL (she injured her right thumb the week prior/couldn’t shift). I was ultimately the strongest in the final 10 miles and crossed the line first, at 11:46, establishing a new course record and being the first to ever buckle. Syd crossed 5 minutes later, and then Kristy another 5 minutes after - all of us going sub-12hrs! Sadly, Julie crashed out in the final hours of the race. It is hard to put in words the significance our finish had - that town lost their minds seeing me, then Syd, then Kristy do something that has been argued for the better part of 10 years about whether or not women could do it or if the time or the course had to be made easier for us to be able to attain the coveted buckle.”
Check out the power meters that our athletes use to successfully shape their training and racing:
