2018 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
The 21st running of the women's Flèche wallonne was held on 18 April 2018. The race started and finished in Huy. The route featured seven categorized climbs, including two ascents of the Mur de Huy. The finish line was on the top of the final ascent of the Mur. Anna van der Breggen claimed her fourth Flèche Wallonne victory in a row. Route The race started and finished in Huy. The final 30 km loop was covered twice, totaling 118.5 km. There were 7 categorized climbs: *45.5 km: Côte de Warre - 2.2 km climb at 4.9% *73 km: Côte d'Ereffe - 2.1 km climb at 5% *83.5 km: Côte de Cherave - 1.3 km climb at 8.1% *89.5 km: Mur de Huy - 1.3 km climb at 9.6% *102 km: Côte d'Ereffe - 2.1 km climb at 5% *112.5 km: Côte de Cherave - 1.3 km climb at 8.1% *118.5 km: Mur de Huy - 1.3 km climb at 9.6% Teams Twenty-three teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders: Race summary ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2018 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-four road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2018 in women's road cycling, 2018 women's cycling season. It was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with 2018 Strade Bianche Women, Strade Bianche on 3 March and concluded with the Tour of Guangxi on 21 October. Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands was the defending champion. Van der Breggen, riding for the team, was unable to defend her title, as she finished third in the standings behind compatriots Annemiek van Vleuten () and Marianne Vos, who was riding for the squad. Having taken three podium finishes, van Vleuten took the top spot after a strong second half of the season commencing at the women's Grand Tour, the 2018 Giro Rosa, Giro Rosa. Van Vleuten won three of the last four stages, taking the overall victory by over four minutes from her closest compe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Margarita Victoria García
Margarita Victoria "Mavi" García Cañellas (born 2 January 1984) is a Spanish professional racing cyclist and duathlete, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Major results ;2015 : 1st Zalla : 2nd Sopelana : 3rd Overall Gipuzkoako Emakumeen Itzulia : 4th Larrabasterra ;2016 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::3rd Time trial : 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Gran Premio Comunidad de Cantabria : 1st Trofeo Gobierno de La Rioja : 1st Trofeo Ria de Marin : 1st Zizurkil-Villabona Sari Nagusia : 2nd 94.7 Cycle Challenge : KZN Summer Series ::2nd Queen Nandi Challenge ::8th Queen Sibiya Classic : 6th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche ;2017 : 1st Trofeo Gobierno de La Rioja : National Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::2nd Road race : 2nd Gran Premio Ciudad de Alcobendas : 2nd Gran Premio Costa Blanca Calpe : 3rd Gran Premio Comunidad de Cantabria : 5th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche : 5 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marta Bastianelli
Marta Bastianelli (born 30 April 1987) is an Italian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Bastianelli won the 2007 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race, women's road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships ahead of Marianne Vos and Giorgia Bronzini, and also won the equivalent race at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships, again beating Vos. Professional career Born in Velletri, near Rome, Bastianelli rode for the team from 2006 to 2008. On 5 July 2008, Bastianelli tested positive for a banned substance, the stimulant fenfluramine which can be found in dietary aids. It was found in her urine A sample during a routine doping control at the under 23 European championships held in Verbania, Italy. She was subsequently dropped from the Italian team for the 2008 Summer Olympics and handed a one-year ban by the Italian National Olympic Committee. Bastianelli appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma (born 29 September 1994) is a Polish racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Among her wins are the Amstel Gold Race, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the stage race The Women's Tour. She is a former national champion in both the road race and time trial events. In July 2022, she was named as one of the pre-race favourites for the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes, and eventually finished third overall. Early years Niewiadoma started racing bikes with local club WLKS Krakus BBC Czaja and soon emerged as one of the most promising women riders in Poland. In 2013, she won two national Under-23 champion titles, finishing 4th in both the elite time-trial and elite road race. She also finished 5th in European Road Championships in the women's Under-23 road race. Following these performances, she received an offer from professional team and became a stagiaire in August 2013. She participated in the Boels Ladies Tour, finishing 10th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jolien D'Hoore
Jolien D'hoore (born 14 March 1990) is a Belgian former track and road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2021 for the , , , and teams. D'hoore is a 29-time national track champion as well as a four-time national road champion at all competition levels. She won the bronze medal in the omnium at the 2016 Olympics and during her career was one of the strongest sprinters in the women's peloton. Since retiring as a rider, D'hoore now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's Continental Team . Career Most notably, she won the Belgian national road race championship in 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was 5th in the Women's omnium. D'hoore signed with the team for the 2015 season, winning 13 races in her first year with the team to become the most prolific winner in the women's peloton in 2015. D'hoore won the bronze medal in the omnium at the 2016 Olympics. She won her first gold medal in her career in track cycling in the European championships. She ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amy Pieters
Amy Pieters (born 1 June 1991) is a Dutch professional road and track cyclist, who is contracted to ride for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was a member of the Dutch team that finished sixth at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit (together with Ellen van Dijk, Kirsten Wild and Vera Koedooder). On 23 December 2021, Pieters was placed in an induced coma and underwent emergency surgery to relieve pressure on her brain caused by a fall that day during a training ride near Alicante with the Dutch national track team. After being repatriated to the Netherlands the following month, Pieters had regained consciousness in April but, due to the brain injury suffered, doctors were unsure of her "residual symptoms and remaining abilities". In October 2022, Pieters was able to take her first steps since the fall, at a neuro-rehabilitation centre in Woerden. Personal life Pieters is the daughter of former professional Peter Pieters, the niece of Sjaak Pieters and the sister of Roy Pi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chantal Blaak
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (née Blaak; born 22 October 1989) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway. Career Junior career Van den Broek-Blaak was the Dutch national junior time trial champion in 2006 and 2007. She was European under-23 road race champion in 2009 and was also third in the Ronde van Drenthe race of the UCI Women's Road World Cup in that year. Professional career Van den Broek-Blaak began her professional career in 2008 with the Dutch and remained with them until they disbanded at the end of 2012, after which she raced for the US team for a year. In 2014, she joined and won her first UCI Women's Road World Cup race, the Open de Suède Vårgårda. She transferred to the team for 2015, along with sponsors Specialized Bicycle Components and lululemon Athletica and teammate Evelyn Stevens. She won the 2015 Le Samyn des Dames. 2016 was her most successf ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jersey Violet
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 Fleche Wallonne Podium 14a
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Anastasiia Iakovenko
Anastasia Aleksandrovna Chursina (; née Yakovenko; born 7 April 1995) is a Russian racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2013 : UCI Junior Road World Championships ::2nd Road race ::5th Time trial : 4th Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships ;2014 : 1st Young rider classification Trophée d'Or Féminin : 10th Overall Tour of Adygeya ;2015 : 1st Grand Prix of Maykop : 2nd Overall Tour of Adygeya ::1st Stage 3 : 8th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships ;2016 : 1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2017 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour of Zhoushan Island : 3rd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships : 6th Overall Gracia–Orlová : 6th Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT : 10th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fani ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sofia Bertizzolo
Sofia Bertizzolo (born 21 August 1997) is an Italian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam UEA Team ADQ Major results ;2014 : UEC Junior Road European Championships ::1st Road race ::6th Time trial : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd Time trial ;2015 : 1st Trofeo Da Moreno - Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda : 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships : 9th Road race, UEC Junior Road Championships ;2016 : 4th GP della Liberazione : 7th Overall Giro Toscana Int. Femminile - Memorial Michela Fanini ;2017 : 4th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite : 5th Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica : 7th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite ;2018 : 1st Youth classification UCI Women's World Tour : 1st Overall Giro delle Marche in Rosa : 1st Young rider classification Giro Rosa : 1st Mountains classification Festival Elsy Jacobs : 2n ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sabrina Stultiens
Sabrina Stultiens (born 8 July 1993) is a Dutch road and cyclo-cross racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Stultiens won the women's under-23 road race at the 2014 European Road Championships. This qualified her to compete in the women's road race at the 2014 Road World Championships, in which she finished in 56th place out of 134 entrants. In cyclo-cross, Stultiens finished eighth in the 2013 World Championships. Major results Cyclo-cross ;2011–2012 : 3rd Cyclo-cross Zonhoven, Superprestige : 7th Women's race, UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships ;2012–2013 : 2nd Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle, bpost bank trophy : 2nd Caubergcross : 3rd Women's race, National Cyclo-cross Championships : 3rd Overall Superprestige ::3rd Cyclo-cross Zonhoven ::3rd Vlaamse Aardbeiencross : 8th Women's race, UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships ;2013–2014 : 3rd Women's race, National Cyclo-cross Championships : 3rd Superprestige Gieten, Superprestige : 3rd Jaarma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |