
With last year's Paris-Roubaix Femmes winner and defending World Champion Lotte Kopecky on their roster for this year's edition, SD Worx-Protime were the big favourites to retain the cobblestone trophy at the fifth edition of the Queen of the Classics.
However, come Saturday afternoon in Roubaix and after sweeping up victories at Milan-San Remo, Gent-Wevelgem, and the Tour of Flanders this spring, the team was left walking away with a third place, courtesy of Lorena Wiebes.