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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...

The Itzulia Women took over as one of the major Spanish stage races once Emakumeen Bira closed its doors and was able to get off the ground in 2022 straight into the Women's WorldTour. That was largely in part due to the race being an expanded version of the Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa which took place either side of Covid.

La Vuelta Femenina is very much the junior member of the women's grand tours and riding the coattails of the men's race whilst trying to catch up. It's had a slow, measured progression from a one-day race, similar to La Course on the Champs Elysees was, into something bigger. After 3 editions, a second stage was added which was somewhat strangely a team time trial to effectively decide the GC.

The race organisers of the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge have announced that there will be no women's race in 2023. They have blamed this...

2022 Season Summary FDJ-SUEZ moved up a level in the 2022 season. Traditionally they've had 1 or 2 star riders scoring points whereas in 2022,...

The Tour de France Femmes 2023 route has been announced and plenty of riders were invited to the unveiling show in Paris. Many gave...

The Women's World Championships road race had been dominated by Dutch riders in recent years, with 4 in a row between 2017 and 2021. Elisa Balsamo broke that run last year in Flanders by being able to outsprint Marianne Vos to the line. Such is the Dutch dominance in women's cycling

The GP de Plouay is closing in on 25 years of racing, which makes it one of the longest running major races in the women's cycling calendar. The lumpy Brittany parcours has favoured climbers and puncheurs over the years, depending on the course layout. Delving into the list of former winners, you have the likes of GC winner Fabiana Luperini and Brit Nicole Cooke before the modern generation takes over

The Giro Donne's status has seen the GC riders of recent generations all spar off to take the victory in Italy. So in recent years, honours have been shared between Anna van der Breggen and Annemiek van Vleuten, with Megan Guarnier the last another rider to win in 2016. Multiple wins are a regular occurrence, with Vos taking 3 wins in the early 2010s

After a 20-year wait, the Tour de Suisse Women made a return to the calendar in 2021. There'd been a few editions around the turn of the millennium, with Zulfia Zabirova winning two of them. There's a link with the last edition of the Tour de Suisse Women when Olga Zabelinskaya took part in last year's race, 20 years after her last Tour de Suisse Women race.