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The Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour is one of the longest-running stage races still on the women's calendar. Whilst slow to react to the march of progress of women's cycling it has very much caught up in recent years.

The Festival Elsy Jacobs is the biggest women's race in Luxembourg and has been a highlight on the UCI women's elite cycle racing calendar since 2008. This race has...

Italian cyclist Eleonora Gasparrini emerged victorious at the Trofeo Binissalem-Andratx, concluding the Challenge Mallorca Femenina with a win for her team, UAE Team ADQ. Gasparrini's success came after an...

The Alpes Gresivaudan Classic kicked off last season with, forgive me, a classic. Evita Muzic was the pre-race favourite and whilst she took the win, it wasn't formulaic. Eglantine...

Mischa Bredewold took her first win of the 2023 season and her first for the SD Worx team. The Dutch rider finished with a solo break after losing her...

The Thüringen Ladies Tour is another race with a long storied history in the women's peloton but probably without the top-drawer race level that would normally bring. Hosted since 1986, it has never made it to the highest level of the women's cycling calendar, although moves are being made to change that now. The race can look back on a list of winners that includes greats like Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, Mirjam Melchers, Hanka Kupfernagel, Zulfia Zabirova, Judith Arndt, Emma Johansson, and Lisa Brennauer.

Omloop van het Hageland is the second part of the Opening Weekend for the women's peloton. With no Kuurne Brussels Kuurne, the long-running Omloop van het Hageland fills the gap nicely instead. More often than not the race comes down to a sprint, with the parcours just hard enough to drop any unsuspecting rider.

2022 was the year of Katharina Fox. The 26-year-old from Heidelberg from the MAXX-SOLAR LINDIG Women Racing team won the overall ranking for women in the “Müller – Die...

The German club team, Maxx-Solar Lindig are due to become a UCI Continental team in 2023. The outfit was seen in a number of UCI races this season, like...