Kimberley Le Court

Kimberley Le Court
Le Court at the 2025 Tour de France Femmes
Personal information
Full nameMary Patricia Kimberley Le Court de Billot
Born (1996-03-23) 23 March 1996
Curepipe, Mauritius
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Team information
Current teamAG Insurance–Soudal
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Mountain biking
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2016Time Freight
2018–2023Demacon Ladies
Professional teams
2015Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling
2016Bizkaia–Durango
2024–AG Insurance–Soudal
Major wins
Mountain bike
Cape Epic (2023)
Road

Major Tours

Tour de France
2 individual stages (2025, 2026)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2024)

Stage races

Tour of Britain (2026)

One-day races and Classics

Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2025)

Kimberley Le Court Pienaar (born Mary Patricia Kimberley Le Court de Billot; 23 March 1996), known as Kim Le Court, is a Mauritian professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam AG Insurance–Soudal. She 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. 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 the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, she obtained the yellow jersey after stage 2, becoming the first female African cyclist in wearing it. In the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, she finished in 9th position overall and won stage 6, becoming the first African to win two stages of the Tour. In the 2026 Tour of Britain, Kim Le Court won the third stage and ranked first overall, winning her first UCI Women’s WorldTour (2.WWT) and the Mauritian national champion becoming at the same time, the first-ever African rider to win the overall title in the event's history.

Early life and education

Mary Patricia Kimberley Le Court de Billot[1] was born on 23 March 1996 in Curepipe, Mauritius,[2] to a Mauritian father of French descent and a Scottish mother.[3] Her brother Olivier is also a road racing cyclist.[4][5]

Career

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.[6] Le Court has won the Mauritius road race national championships five times in 2016, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026 and won the time trial national championship three times in 2024, 2025 and 2026.[7]

In 2024, Le Court signed with AG Insurance–Soudal, reportedly after contacting every UCI Women's World Tour team asking for an opportunity.[8] Later that year, she won stage 8 at the Giro d'Italia Women, her first stage win at the UCI Women's World Tour.

Kim Le Court rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam AG Insurance–Soudal.[9] In 2025, Le Court won Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, finishing first in a sprint of 4 breakaway riders.[10] In the Tour de France Femmes, she obtained the yellow jersey after stage 2, becoming the first female African cyclist to wear it.[11]

Major results

2015
African Games
1st Road race
8th Time trial
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 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
5th Cross-country, Commonwealth Games[12]
2023
African Road Championships
1st Team relay
1st Team time trial
3rd Time trial
10th Road race
1st Overall Cape Epic (with Vera Looser)
2024
National Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
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 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1st Giro dell'Emilia
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
8th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
2026
National Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
Tour de France
9th Overall
1st Stage 6
Tour of Britain
1st Overall
1st Stage 3
4th Overall UAE Tour
4th Overall Tour de Suisse


Personal life

Le Court 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.[13]

Le Court married South African mountain biker Ian Pienaar in autumn 2023.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Mary Patricia Kimberley Le Court de Billot". UCI. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "Kimberley Pienaar (Le Court)". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "The Mauritian darkhorse at Paris-Roubaix Femmes with the race's wildest backstory". Rouleur. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Poggi, Alessandro (24 July 2025). "Mauritius cycling star Kim Le Court: 'Hunger sets me apart' in chasing big dreams from a small island". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
  5. ↑ Woodpower, Zeb (12 November 2017). "Olivier Le Court de Billot creating history for Mauritius at the Tour of Rwanda | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.
  6. ↑ "2019 African Games - Mountain Bike Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Kimberley (Le Court) Pienaar". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  8. ↑ Jary, Rachel. "Writing history: Why Kim Le Court's Liège-Bastogne-Liège win is so important". Rouleur. Retrieved 15 May 2025.
  9. ↑ "AG Insurance - Soudal Team 2025". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  10. ↑ Bonville-Ginn, Tim (27 April 2025). "Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes: Kim Le Court wins in four-woman sprint". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "« 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.
  12. ↑ "Cycling - Mountain Bike - Women's Cross-country results". BBC Sport. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  13. ↑ "Bijna overleden door malaria en dankzij haar man bij Belgisch team: Kim Le Court schrijft meer dan enkel Afrikaans sprookje". Sporza.
  14. ↑ "Kim Le Court deserves your attention on Saturday". Escape Collective. 5 April 2024.
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