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The Women's European Championships Time Trial has only been in existence since 2016 when it was decided to include an Elites level race. This came after almost 20 years of an U23 and Juniors race with many big name winners.

The Tour of Scandinavia was born out of the Ladies Tour of Norway that ran from 2014-2021, the idea was created to make the race a wider Scandinavian one. Initially called the Battle of the North, in the wake of the war in Ukraine it was renamed to the Tour of Scandinavia. It was supposed to include the racing in Vårgårda as well for its Swedish elements but eventually that organisation pulled out last year.

First run in 1994, the Women's World Championships time trial has been a remarkably difficult race to establish a dynasty of titles in. The only 3-time run came right at the beginning with Jeannie Longo in 1995-1997. The French rider is the only person to have won 4 titles, adding her final victory in 2001.

Demi Vollering won the Tour de France Femmes. She made sure of her overall win in the final time trial race. Marlen Reusser won...

A very long-running race, the Bretagne Ladies Tour can trace its origins back to 1987 when Cecile Odin won. Since then, it's always kept a low level but has just started to move up in the last couple of years after a patchy record since 2016. It's no longer a 2.2 race but has reached 2.1 level.

Italian rider Vittoria Guazzini sustained a fractured pelvis during the FDJ-Suez recon for this year's Paris Roubaix. She crashed heavily on Wednesday before Saturday's...

A Women's Tour of Flanders goes back to 2004, where the race immediately joined the top-level Road World Cup. From there, it's pretty much been a who's who of women's cycling on the winner's list. World champions, grand tour winners and more, every name is heavily linked to women's cycling with no surprises like say Jacky Durand on the men's list.

A women's Dwars Door Vlaanderen has been going for a solid decade at this point. First run back in 2012 at national level, it took 5 editions before it joined the UCI ranks. That didn't stop it from having big names race it in that period though. The early winners board is dominated by Amy Pieters with her 3 wins in a row from 2014-2016.

The Women's Ronde van Drenthe is a rare men/women double-header race where the women's race has the greater prestige to the men's race. It's also one of the longest running women's races in the calendar with a whole host of major name winners since its introduction in 2007.

This year's Le Samyn des Dames saw an Italian lockout on the podium with Marta Bastianelli taking the victory in a sprint-a-deux with Maria...