Name: Ellen van Dijk
Nationality: Netherlands
Place of Birth: Harmelen
Date of Birth: 11th February 1987
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 71kg
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2020
Trek-Segafredo Women
2021
Trek-Segafredo Women
2021
Trek-Segafredo Women
Ellen van Dijk Articles
Women’s Hour Record – A History
The women’s hour record is broken down into 3 distinct periods. The early period saw pioneers of women’s cycling set records that look achievable to…
Liège Bastogne Liège Femmes 2022 Race Preview
Liege Bastogne Liege Femmes is another relatively new race on the women’s calendar. First held in 2017, it gives riders the chance to cover roads raced by the men’s peloton in one of their monuments. Although the race is called Liege Bastogne Liege still, the women’s race starts in Bastogne and before heading to Liege.
Paris Roubaix Femmes 2022 Race Preview
It was a long time coming but the first women’s Paris Roubaix finally took place in 2021. We’d been teased that Paris Roubaix Femmes was taking place after the COVID lockdown in 2020 but further measures derailed the race. It was the same story in the spring of 2021 but finally, in October 2021, we saw a women’s peloton on the cobbles.
Women’s Tour of Flanders 2022 Race Preview
The first Women’s Tour of Flanders took place in 2004. The route followed the last 55km of the men’s race with a bit before it to take the distance up to 94km. The finish parcours from that time is now used for Omloop het Nieuwsblad. Riders climb Kapelmuur before riding the tree-lined Bosberg. Zulfiya Zabirova won the first race with an attack on Kapelmuur itself.
Women’s Dwars Door Vlaanderen 2022 Race Preview
The Women’s Dwars Door Vlaanderen has been a UCI race since 2017 and a lower level race for 5 years before then too. The race has evolved over the years from a largely flat race with 1 or 2 major climbs to last year’s version which was a much tougher affair with 10 climbs
Women’s Gent Wevelgem 2022 Race Preview
The Women’s Gent Wevelgem has been running since 2012. Taking place on the same day as the men’s race, the women’s version starts from Ypres and finishes in Wevelgem. The route takes in the infamous Kemmelberg, although the women haven’t tackled the steepest Ossuary side until this year’s race.