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On the third day of the Bretagne Ladies Tour CERATIZIT, Grace Brown claimed the individual time trial. The Australian managed to navigate the challenging course in and around Plouay faster than Maaike Boogaard and Coralie Demay. Brown also assumed the leader’s jersey from Marta Lach. The third day of the Bretagne Ladies was of great …
Grace Brown rides to huge TT win in Brittany to take GC lead Read More »
In a dazzling display of athleticism, Dutch cyclist Riejanne Markus clinched the Navarra Women’s Elite Classic title. After a gruelling, hilly race from and to Pamplona, Markus emerged victorious, outpacing rivals Tamara Dronova and Ella Wyllie, who secured second and third places respectively. The Navarra Women’s Elite Classic, a strenuous single-day Spanish race, is a …
Riejanne Markus takes solo win at Navarra Women’s Elite Classic Read More »
In a thrilling conclusion to the second stage of the Bretagne Ladies Tour, French cyclist Valentine Fortin, representing Cofidis, emerged victorious. In a disrupted sprint finish, she overpowered Marta Lach and Martina Alzini to secure the win. Despite her second-place finish, Lach retains her position at the top of the overall standings. Yesterday’s inaugural stage …
Valentine Fortin wins Bretagne Ladies Tour sprint after late crash Read More »
The opening stage of the 2023 Bretagne Ladies Tour was marked by plenty of a wind and a large crash that split the bunch up. It was won by Marta Lach, the Pole winning with a late attack in the final km ahead of her break companions. The 124km stage started and finished in Kerlouan, …
Marta Lach wins opening stage of Bretagne Ladies Tour Read More »
The end of the race in Spain saw the first major tour of the season go to Annemiek van Vleuten. It would be fair to say she wasn’t the strongest rider but she by virtue of making the fewest mistakes, she was able to capitalise. We saw a new hope in Gaia Realini begin to …
What did we learn about the GC riders at the Vuelta Femenina? Read More »
Annemiek van Vleuten won her 4th major tour in a row with victory at this year’s Vuelta Femenina, although it was a close-run thing as her advantage earned yesterday was nearly overtaken by the efforts of Demi Vollering. Gaia Realini gamefully hung on to claim 2nd on the stage and boost herself up to 3rd …
Gaia Realini pipped Annemiek van Vleuten on the line after a hard-fought day that saw the experienced head of Van Vleuten steal a march on her rival Demi Vollering in the general classification fight. The biggest DNS of note today was Chloe Dygert, whose team pulled her from the running after 5 full-on stages to …
Gaia Realini takes first WWT win and Van Vleuten steals the red jersey away from SD Worx Read More »
Demi Vollering was not happy after today’s Stage 6 of the Vuelta Femenina. Her team took a natural break and suffered a mechanical in that process, in the meantime Movistar geared up an attack in a crosswind section that they didn’t hold off. That put SD Worx on the back foot after just 35km of …
Demi Vollering’s post-Vuelta Femenina Stage 6 interview in English Read More »
Italian Gaia Masetti took her first pro win at the 2023 La Classique Morbihan, part of a weekend of racing in Morbihan and a week of racing in Brittany. Josie Talbot got the attacking underway at the start, with the Aussie getting a gap for a while. The peloton wasn’t keen to see the former …
This year’s Vuelta Femenina took a turn into a new phase with the first summit finish of this year’s race. Demi Vollering took the victory in a head vs head sprint against Annemiek van Vleuten. The theme of 2023 continued though with Vollering just too strong for last year’s triple-GT winner. The victory places Vollering …
Demi Vollering continues winning form on Vuelta Femenina Stage 5 Read More »