Annemiek van Vleuten took her 2nd World Championship road race victory in Wollongong with an impressive last-ditch effort that caught the other riders unaware. Attacking in the final 700 metres with the race heading for a sprint, Van Vleuten wasn’t picked up by the other riders and was able to give everything she had to …
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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
Ellen van Dijk took her 3rd world championship in the time trial this morning. The Dutch rider was the quickest on the circuit in Wollongong, the host city in Australia of the 2022 Cycling World Championships. For Van Dijk, it’s a 2nd win in 2 years, after also winning last year’s edition in Flanders. Her …
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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.
Team SD Worx looks strong for the 2022 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta that starts on Wednesday 7th September. The Dutch team heads to Spain with a team of: Marlen Reusser, Lotte Kopecky, Anna Shackley, Niamh Fisher-Black, Blanka Vas and Demi Vollering. For Demi Vollering, the Ceratizit Challenge is going to be her first race …
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Switzerland has announced who it will be taking to Australia to take part in this year’s World Championships. The team for the road race is a mixture of big names from the road, time trial specialists and mountain biker riders. There are no spots for the likes of Jolanda Neff, who after a mountain bike …
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The Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta has had quite a developmental history. Originally a one-day race in Madrid that saw sprinters take victories, it has slowly grown into the 5-day race that it is this year. A team time trial was added to the sprint stage in 2018
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
Women’s European Championships Road Race History The European Championships is one that the Dutch national team have a strong hold over. They’ve won 5 of the 6 races that have taken place, with only Marta Bastianelli in 2018 the outlier. Strangely for such dominance, no rider has ever won more than once. The different parcours …
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The European Championships time trial saw Swiss rider Marlen Reusser retain her European title from last year. She beat off the Dutch competition from world champion Ellen van Dijk and Riejanne Markus to take the title. The winning gap was small, just under 6 seconds separated Reusser and Van Dijk in the end. Held over …