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.
The Dutch cycling federation, KNWU, has announced the line-up for the women’s teams at the 2022 World Championships, due to be held in Wollongong, Australia. Predictably strong, the Dutch will hope to put aside their near-misses at the last World Championships in Flanders where Marianne Vos was 2nd to Elisa Balsamo. Infamously, the Dutch team …
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Trek Segafredo announced today that they have re-signed Ellen van Dijk for 2 more years. The women’s hour record holder’s contract was due to expire at the end of this season and after some deliberation, allegedly over the length of the new contract, the deal is now done. The Dutch star is now on her …
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Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes has won her first European Women’s Cycling Championship in today’s race in Munich. She finished around half a wheel ahead of Elisa Balsamo on the finishing line as the other nations took the race to the Netherlands. Rachele Barbieri was 3rd after continuing her lead out for Balsamo to the line. …
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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 …
Each season, a whole host of riders are out of contract and potentially change teams. We’re currently at the point where some riders have confirmed their moves or renewals but many are still unknown. That means some big-name riders are currently ‘available’ that could improve any team in the peloton. Some of them we know …
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In a welcome return to the Women’s WorldTour calendar, the Postnord Vårgårda WestSweden TTT is a rare team time trial that’s a stand-alone event. It’s a sort of warm-up for the road race tomorrow and used to be a great practice in the discipline when the team time trial was a trade team event at …
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The summit of Black Mountain saw the finish line of the queen stage of this year’s Women’s Tour. Elisa Longo Borghini won the stage, timing her sprint into the wind perfectly. For the second day in a row, Kasia Niewiadoma was the runner-up and whilst she outsprinted Longo Borghini yesterday in Welshpool, she couldn’t do …
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