Kimberley Le Court
 Le Court at the 2025 Tour de France Femmes | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mary Patricia Kimberley Le Court de Billot[1] |
| Born | 23 March 1996 Curepipe, Mauritius[2] |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | AG Insurance–Soudal |
| Disciplines |
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| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2016 | Time Freight |
| 2018–2023 | Demacon Ladies |
| Professional teams | |
| 2015 | Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling |
| 2016 | Bizkaia–Durango |
| 2024– | AG Insurance–Soudal |
| Major wins | |
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Kimberley Le Court Pienaar (born 23 March 1996) is a Mauritian professional racing cyclist[3] who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam AG Insurance–Soudal.[4] Le Court represented Mauritius at the 2019 African Games in cycling, winning two medals: gold in the women's cross-country marathon and the bronze in the women's cross-country Olympic event.[5] Le Court has won the Mauritius road race national championships four times in 2016, 2019, 2024 and 2025, and won the time trial national championship twice in 2024 and 2025.[6] In 2025 Le Court became the first African cyclist to lead the race and wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France Femmes and the first African cyclist to win a stage of the Tour after winning stage 5.
In 2024, Le Court signed with AG Insurance–Soudal, reportedly after contacting every UCI Women's World Tour team asking for an opportunity.[7] Later that year, she won stage 8 at the Giro d'Italia Women, her first stage win at the UCI Women's World Tour.
In 2025, Le Court won Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, finishing first in a sprint of 4 breakaway riders.[8] In the Tour de France Femmes, she obtained the yellow jersey after stage 2, becoming the first female African cyclist in wearing it.[9]
Major results
[edit]- 2015
- African Games
- 1st
Road race - 8th Time trial
- 1st
- 2016
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 3rd
Road race, African Road Championships - 2017
- 2nd
Road race, African Road Championships - 2018
- 9th Road race, African Road Championships
- 2019
- African Games
- 1st Cross-country marathon
- 3rd Cross-country
- 6th Road race
- 1st
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 8th Road race, African Road Championships
- 2022
- African Road Championships
- 1st
Team relay - 2nd
Team time trial - 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 5th Cross-country, Commonwealth Games[10]
- 2023
- African Road Championships
- 1st Team relay
- 1st Team time trial
- 3rd
Time trial - 10th Road race
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Cape Epic (with Vera Looser) - 2024
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Stage 8 Giro d'Italia
- 9th Classic Brugge–De Panne
- 9th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 10th Paris–Roubaix
- 2025
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 5
- Held
after Stages 2 & 5–7
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Britain
- 3rd Overall UAE Tour
- 5th Tour of Flanders
- 9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Personal life
[edit]Le Court was born to a Mauritian father of French descent and a Scottish mother.[11] Her brother Olivier is also a road racing cyclist.[12][13]
She moved from Mauritius to South-Africa, from South-Africa to Europe and then back to South-Africa before ending up with her current cycling team. [14]
Le Court married South African mountain biker Ian Pienaar in autumn 2023.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mary Patricia Kimberley LE COURT DE BILLOT". UCI. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ "The Mauritian darkhorse at Paris-Roubaix Femmes with the race's wildest backstory". Rouleur. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ "Kimberley Pienaar (Le Court)". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- ^ "AG Insurance - Soudal Team 2025". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ^ "2019 African Games - Mountain Bike Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Kimberley (Le Court) Pienaar". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
- ^ Jary, Rachel. "Writing history: Why Kim Le Court's Liège-Bastogne-Liège win is so important". Rouleur. Retrieved 15 May 2025.
- ^ Bonville-Ginn, Tim (27 April 2025). "Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes: Kim Le Court wins in four-woman sprint". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ "« Encore sous le choc » : Kim Le Court devient la première Africaine porteuse du maillot jaune sur le Tour de France". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 28 July 2025.
- ^ "Cycling - Mountain Bike - Women's Cross-country results". BBC Sport. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "The Mauritian darkhorse at Paris-Roubaix Femmes with the race's wildest backstory". Rouleur. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ https://www.olympics.com/en/news/mauritius-cycling-kim-le-court-exclusive-tour-de-france-femmes.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Woodpower, Zeb (12 November 2017). "Olivier Le Court de Billot creating history for Mauritius at the Tour of Rwanda | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.
- ^ "Bijna overleden door malaria en dankzij haar man bij Belgisch team: Kim Le Court schrijft meer dan enkel Afrikaans sprookje". Sporza.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Kim Le Court deserves your attention on Saturday". Escape Collective. 5 April 2024.
External links
[edit]- Kimberley Le Court at UCI
- Kimberley Le Court at ProCyclingStats
- Kimberley Le Court at Cycling Quotient
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Cyclists from Pretoria
- South African female cyclists
- Mauritian female cyclists
- African Games gold medalists in cycling
- African Games bronze medalists in cycling
- African Games gold medalists for Mauritius
- African Games bronze medalists for Mauritius
- Cyclists at the 2015 African Games
- Cyclists at the 2019 African Games
- Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Mauritius
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Mauritius
- 21st-century South African sportswomen
- Cyclists at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- Mauritian people of French descent