Zanardi - Page 2

In what was mooted as a sprint stage, Annemiek van Vleuten delivered another strong GC performance. In the end, she took second place to...

The CIC-Tour Féminin Pyrénées has a limited history with just the one edition in 2022. Krista Doebel-Hickok was the strongest rider over the 4 stages, taking the GC by 1'07" from Eri Yonamine and Ricarda Bauernfeind back at 1'38" behind the American.

RideLondon Classique History After a tumultuous off-season, RideLondon Classique returns in 2023 still just about as a Women's WorldTour level race. Last year, only the...

Vuelta a Burgos Feminas sprung up from a national-level race in 2019 to 2.1 level. The first edition was won by Norwegian Stine Borgli with a bit of a different parcours to the race it has now become. There was no major summit finish...

The Itzulia Women took over as one of the major Spanish stage races once Emakumeen Bira closed its doors and was able to get off the ground in 2022 straight into the Women's WorldTour. That was largely in part due to the race being an expanded version of the Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa which took place either side of Covid.

Marianne Vos doubled up with another win on Stage 4 after a tough stage that started to light the touchpaper for the expected GC...

There isn't an extensive history at Scheldeprijs Women, it was first held coming out of the Covid pandemic with Lorena Wiebes winning in 2021. She doubled up in 2022, confirming that the women's Scheldeprijs is very much like the men's race. Over the years, the men's edition has been seen as a sprinter's world championships or a teaser before the Champs Elysees at least.

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.

Today's stage came down to a relatively formulaic sprint, despite a decent amount of climbing in the early part of the stage. The presence...

Elisa Balsamo took the first stage of the 2023 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, a repeat of her win at the same stage in last year's...