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This year's Dwars Door de Westhoek has been scaled back due to roadworks. The riders will tackle 12 laps of a 10km circuit that...

Lotte Kopecky has clinched a decisive victory in the final stage and subsequently secured the overall classification of the Thüringen Ladies Tour. The 27-year-old...

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.

The men's Veenendaal Veenendaal has a long history but in contrast, there have only been 2 women's editions. The first took place in 2018...

The finish of Leiedal Koerse today definitely didn't go as it was expected to for the final 30km or more. After attacking on the...

New last year, Leiedal Koerse is effectively the E3 Classic for Women. For now, it remains not quite on the same level but there...

There isn't an extensive history at Scheldeprijs Women, it was first held coming out of the Covid pandemic with Lorena Wiebes winning in 2021. She doubled up in 2022, confirming that the women's Scheldeprijs is very much like the men's race. Over the years, the men's edition has been seen as a sprinter's world championships or a teaser before the Champs Elysees at least.

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.

The 2023 season sees plenty of Women's Development Teams for the first time, Canyon SRAM got the ball rolling in 2022 with their Generation...