Gent Wevelgem Women has a decent shout as being one of the strongest Spring Classics races in the women’s calendar. We’ve seen both the expected sprint finishes and also the odd attack and small break contest the win. The race has developed over the years and recently has become much more similar to the men’s edition.
A women’s Exterioo Classic Brugge-De Panne has only been in existence since 2018, the same year the men’s race stopped being 3 stages long. Instead, the new women’s Brugge-De Panne helped create a festival of cycling style approach lasting for 3 days. The flat parcours means it’s a sprint heavy classic.
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.
Omloop het Nieuwsblad Women will be part of the Women’s WorldTour for the first time in 2022! A long history back to 2006 has seen the race slowly elevate itself through the levels from 1.2 to 1.WWT. The honours board contains some of the very best riders in the women’s peloton
The last day of the UAE Tour Women saw the final sprint showdown of the race and it was won by Charlotte Kool ahead of Chiara Consonni and Lorena Wiebes. Finishing on the Abu Dhabi Breakwater, Kool negotiated the pack perfectly to hit the front at the right time and power past her former leader …
It didn’t take long for Lorena Wiebes to taste victory again. After suffering her first bunch sprint loss since De Panne last season, where a broken spoke meant her wheel rubbed on her frame. The stage kicked off almost instantly with crosswinds across the desert leaving riders exposed as Trek Segafredo upped the pace. A …
Action-packed Stage 2 of UAE Tour Women sees Wiebes win the sprint finish Read More »
The UAE Tour Women kicked off today with a relatively steady flat stage that was always expected to come down to a sprint finish. The early-season nervousness saw a good number of crashes as wind and wide roads combined to create a twitchy peloton. A couple of times echelons were threatening to split up the …
Charlotte Kool sprints past former-leader Wiebes in Stage 1 UAE Tour Women finish Read More »
2023 sees the first-ever edition of the UAE Tour Women, which jumps straight into Women’s WorldTour level. It’s a bit of an evolution of the Dubai Women’s Tour that was held once, in 2020, before Covid claimed it. Lucy van der Haar won the GC there in her final year as a pro.
2022 Season Summary Team DSM’s 2022 season was definitely dominated by Lorena Wiebes. The Dutch superstar sprinter took 23 wins in 50 race days, whilst no other rider on the team took more than 2 wins. Team DSM’s identity is almost tied up in sprinting after devoting so much of their race tactics to the …
Before today’s stage, it looked a certainty that Lorena Wiebes would take her 3rd stage win of the race but Team DSM switched the plan. Lorena Wiebes led out her teammate Charlotte Kool, who is poised to become the team’s sprinter when Wiebes leaves in 2023, for a comfortable 1-2 finish for Team DSM ahead …
Charlotte Kool wins at the Simac Ladies Tour after Wiebes leads out Read More »