Nine World Tour races, one elite calendar event and the second stage, that of Hong Kong, of the UCI Track World Cup: these are, in summary, the commitments that Lotte Kopecky has scheduled for the first part of her 2026, a period in which, considering the names of the races she will participate in, the Belgian champion will be repeatedly engaged in pursuing prestigious victories.

The first appointment in which the SD Workx-Protime rider will try to achieve a significant scalp will be the Omloop Nieuwsblad this Saturday, a race she won in 2023 in which, by virtue of the course's layout, it is not unrealistic to see her among the protagonists fighting for victory in the final kilometers.

There are two victories instead reported by the class of '95 from Rumst at the Strade Bianche Donne, the first Italian appointment of an agenda that, in March, will bring the two-time road world champion to travel our roads also on the occasion of the Trofeo Binda on Sunday the 15th and the Milano-Sanremo Donne on Saturday the 21st.

Between these two races Kopecky will once again have the opportunity to taste the stones of the North at the Nokere Koerse on March 18th, a race that will serve as a general rehearsal in view of the commitments at the Dwars door Vlaanderen (April 1st), the Tour of Flanders (April 5th) and the Paris-Roubaix Femmes Hauts-de-France (April 12th) after which Kopecky will temporarily set aside the road bike to take up the track bike during the World Cup stage of the specialty in Hong Kong on April 17th, 18th and 19th.

Having competed in the Asian velodrome, Kopecky will then once again set course towards the Old Continent where she will line up at the start before the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes (April 26th) and then, a few days later, the Vuelta España Femenina, an event that, from May 3rd to 9th, will officially close the spring campaign of an athlete called upon to redeem a 2025 rather lacking in satisfaction.