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 the stage, with Vollering and Lotte Kopecky coming behind her. Kopecky moved ahead of two others in the overall standings. On the eighth day of the Tour de France Femmes, the …
Demi Vollering wraps up 2023 Tour de France as Reusser wins TT Read More »
Danish rider Emma Norsgaard took a surprise victory on Friday in the Tour de France Femmes. Part of the Movistar team, she distanced herself from her breakaway companions in the last kilometre. “This is the biggest victory of my career,” she declared. She thanked those who stood by her through a challenging year, hinting at …
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Ricarda Bauernfeind, from the Canyon//SRAM team, secured a solo victory in the fifth stage of the Tour de France Femmes, making her mark 36 kilometres before the finish line in Albi. Marlen Reusser and Liane Lippert followed in second and third places respectively, while shortly afterwards, Lotte Kopecky outpaced a significantly reduced peloton to claim …
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The Tour de France Femmes, the women’s equivalent of the iconic men’s race, has a rich history. The very first equivalent of the Tour de France Femmes was held in 1955 and won by the Brit Millie Robinson but it was a one-off event. It took until 1984 with the “Tour de France Féminin” for a true event
Yesterday, Dutch cyclist Demi Vollering claimed a victory that has set the SD Worx team on a fresh round of celebrations. Their triumphant streak continues, as Marlen Reusser of Switzerland, Hungary’s youthful sensation Blanka Vas, and Luxembourg’s Christine Majerus have also etched their names on the winners’ list. Each of them emerged victorious in their …
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Another fun stage to watch at the Tour de Suisse Women saw Niamh Fisher-Black take her first WWT victory and first non-national or world championships victory of her young career. In a head-to-head sprint against Kasia Niewiadoma, who’d done almost all of the work in the second half of the stage, the Kiwi was able …
SD Worx keeps up its run of dominance, that now stretches back 21 races in a row for the Dutch team. Today it was the turn of Marlen Reusser to take another victory, this time against the clock in the TT stage of this year’s Tour de Suisse Women. The pre-race favourites both came from …
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The inaugural stage of the Tour de Suisse Women’s event this year comprised three rounds of a hilly circuit, encompassing a mountain and intermediate sprint on each lap but spanning a mere 56km in total. It was Elise Chabbey who initiated an attack during the first climb of Burgstrasse, gaining maximum points and swiftly extending …
Blanka Vas takes Hungary’s first-ever women’s UCI road win at Tour de Suisse Read More »
The Tour des Suisse Women has quickly moved up the ranks since its re-introduction to the calendar. Opening up as a 2.1 in 2021, it was a 2.Pro in 2022 and now part of the Women’s WorldTour in 2023. It had been a 20-year wait from the last original edition in 2001 and the return in 2021. The two races were linked by the presence of Olga Zabelinskaya, the Russian-born Uzbek taking part in both sides of the gap.