Movistar’s Emma Norsgaard will miss the rest of the 2023 spring classics campaign after breaking her collarbone in yesterday’s Strade Bianche race. The Dane fell in the race and doctors have now confirmed she has suffered the break. Norsgaard will return to Denmark to go under the knife to repair the damage. She’d got the …
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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.
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 …
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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.
The first UCI-level edition of the Women Cycling Pro Costa de Almería takes place on 29th January 2023. Held at the 1.1 level, it’s a jump up for the race that was a national level race in 2022, won by Aranza Villalon. 16 teams are due to take part in this race with 4 of …
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2022 Season Summary What to say about the 2022 season other than the obvious about Annemiek van Vleuten? The Dutch rider stated her aim of winning the Ceratizit Challenge, Giro Donne and Tour de France Femmes and she pulled it off. The added bonus of an unexpected World Championships was the icing on the cake …
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 Women’s World Championships Time Trial has gone back and forth in recent years, with only Annemiek van Vleuten able to do consecutive victories in the last 10 years. Ellen van Dijk is the only other multiple winner in that time, winning in 2013 and last year’s 2022 edition.