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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 European Championships time trial saw Swiss rider Marlen Reusser retain her European title from last year. She beat off the Dutch competition from...

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...

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....

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,...

Yesterday Drenthe was confirmed as the host region for the 2023 European Championships of cycling. It's a quick return to the Netherlands for the...

The women's hour record is broken down into 3 distinct periods. The early period saw pioneers of women's cycling set records that look achievable to...

Liege Bastogne Liege Femmes is another relatively new race on the women’s calendar. First held in 2017, it gives riders the chance to cover roads raced by the men’s peloton in one of their monuments. Although the race is called Liege Bastogne Liege still, the women’s race starts in Bastogne and before heading to Liege.

It was a long time coming but the first women's Paris Roubaix finally took place in 2021. We'd been teased that Paris Roubaix Femmes was taking place after the COVID lockdown in 2020 but further measures derailed the race. It was the same story in the spring of 2021 but finally, in October 2021, we saw a women's peloton on the cobbles.

The first Women’s Tour of Flanders took place in 2004. The route followed the last 55km of the men’s race with a bit before it to take the distance up to 94km. The finish parcours from that time is now used for Omloop het Nieuwsblad. Riders climb Kapelmuur before riding the tree-lined Bosberg. Zulfiya Zabirova won the first race with an attack on Kapelmuur itself.