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2020 Gent–Wevelgem (women's Race)
The ninth edition of the Gent–Wevelgem's women's race was held on Sunday 11 October 2020, rescheduled from the original date of 29 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the rescheduled season, it was the eight event of the 2020 UCI Women's World Tour. Route Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, the race organisers had asked spectators to follow the race from home and had not released any information on the course to the public before the race started. The start times of the races were also adapted to avoid a clash with the 2020 Giro d'Italia The 2020 Giro d'Italia was a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 25 October, after initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the .... For the first time, the men's race started before the women's race. Teams Eight UCI Women's WorldTeams and sixteen UCI Women's Continental Teams were to compete in the race. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2020 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that initially included twenty-one road cycling events throughout the 2020 women's cycling season. It was the fifth edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race Women on 1 February. The schedule was extensively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in two-thirds of the races on the calendar being either postponed or cancelled outright. As a result, the season was extended until 8 November, when the final stage of the Ceratizit Challenge by la Vuelta took place. Great Britain's Lizzie Deignan became the fifth rider in as many years to win the overall classification, amassing a tally of 1622.33 points for . Deignan won consecutive races in August at the GP de Plouay and La Course by Le Tour de France, before adding a season-high third victory at Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Deignan finished 55 points clear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Cavalli
Marta Cavalli (born 18 March 1998) is an Italian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In 2018, she won the Italian National Road Race Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Road race. In July 2022, she was named as one of the pre-race favourites for the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes. Major results Road ;2015 : 3rd Time trial, National Juniors Road Championships ;2018 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Trofee Maarten Wynants ;2019 : 2nd Overall Giro delle Marche in Rosa ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Brabantse Pijl ;2020 : 5th Emakumeen Saria : 5th Gent–Wevelgem ;2021 : UEC European Road Championships ::1st Team relay ::6th Road race : 4th Overall Challenge by La Vuelta : 5th Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa : 6th Tour of Flanders : 8th Strade Bianche : 9th Paris–Roubaix ;2022 : 1st Amstel Gold Race : 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine : 1st Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge : 2nd Overall Giro D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Women's Road Cycling
2020 in women's road cycling is about the 2020 women's bicycle races ruled by the UCI and the 2020 UCI Women's Teams. Olympic Games The 2020 Olympics, set to be held in Tokyo, Japan, were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the road cycling events taking place from 23 July to 8 August 2021. World Championships The World Road Championships were originally set to be held in Aigle and Martigny, Switzerland, from 20 to 27 September 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland the races in Switzerland were cancelled. The UCI are intending to run the World Championships on the original dates at a new to be confirmed locations. The final location of the World Road Championships is Imola in Italy. UCI Women's WorldTour Single day races (1.Pro, 1.1 and 1.2) Stage races (2.Pro, 2.1 and 2.2) Junior races Continental Championships Teams Deaths * April 29 - Eva Mottet Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Longo Borghini
Elisa Longo Borghini (born 10 December 1991) is an Italian professional road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . During her career, Longo Borghini has won two bronze medals in the road race at the Summer Olympic Games, taking third-place finishes in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. She has also won two bronze medals in the equivalent event at the UCI Road World Championships, doing so in 2012 and 2020. Career She won the bronze medal at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships in the Women's road race event. On 30 September 2014 it was announced she would ride for in the 2015 season. In August 2018 Longo Borghini confirmed that she would be joining the new for 2019, after the Wiggle team had announced their demise. In July 2021, she competed in the -long women's Olympic road race in Tokyo, and won the bronze medal. She followed an attack by Annemiek van Vleuten with to go, with Van Vleuten securing second place and Longo Borghini securing third place. In July 2022, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Deignan
Elizabeth Mary Deignan (née Armitstead; born 18 December 1988) is an English professional world champion track and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was the 2015 World road race champion. Deignan is also the 2014 Commonwealth Games road race champion and a twice winner of the season-long UCI Women's Road World Cup, winning the overall competition in 2014 and the final edition in 2015. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Deignan won the silver medal in the road race. She has won the British National Road Race Championships four times, in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. In 2021, Deignan won the first ever Paris–Roubaix Femmes to add to victories in the women's versions of Tour of Flanders and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, becoming the first woman to win a 'triple crown' of all women's Monument classics. Twice winner of The Women's Tour, the most important stage race for women in the UK, she has also won Strade Bianche Donne, La Course by Le To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demi Vollering
Demi Vollering (born 15 November 1996) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In 2019 she won the Volta Limburg Classic and the Giro dell'Emilia. In 2021 she won Liège–Bastogne–Liège, her first win in a monument classic. Major results ;2018 : 9th Overall Tour of Uppsala ;2019 : 1st Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite : 1st Volta Limburg Classic : 2nd Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs ::1st Prologue : 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 5th Flèche Wallonne : 5th Overall The Women's Tour : 5th GP de Plouay – Bretagne : 7th Amstel Gold Race ;2020 : 3rd Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana : 3rd La Course by Le Tour de France : 3rd Flèche Wallonne : 7th Gent–Wevelgem : 7th Tour of Flanders : 10th Road race, National Road Championships ;2021 : 1st La Course by Le Tour de France : 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 1st Overall The Women's Tour :: Stage 3 ( ITT) : 2nd Amstel Gold Race : 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 2nd Emakumeen Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Stephens
Lauren Michelle Stephens (née Robertson; born December 28, 1986) is an American racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She raced the Team Time Trial at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2013 : 7th Philadelphia Cycling Classic ;2014 : 3rd White Spot / Delta Road Race : 4th Overall Belgium Tour : 8th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic ;2015 : 1st Overall Joe Martin Stage Race ::1st Stage 1 ( ITT) : 2nd Overall Tour Femenino de San Luis ::1st Stage 4 ( ITT) : 2nd Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska ::1st Points classification : 2nd Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche ::1st Stage 1 ( ITT) : 3rd Overall Tour of the Gila ::1st Stage 3 ( ITT) : 3rd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen : 4th Time trial, National Road Championships : 4th Overall Armed Forces Association Cycling Classic ::1st Clarendon Cup : 5th Chrono Gatineau : 6th Gran Prix San Luis Femenino : 7th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Roy
Sarah Roy (born 27 February 1986) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Before focussing on racing on the road in 2009, Roy was a triathlete, but injured herself six months later which resulted in knee surgery. After two years off from cycling, Roy made her comeback over two years before her first professional contract at in 2014. Major results ;2014 : 1st Criterium, National Road Championships ;2016 : 1st Stage 4 Boels Rental Ladies Tour ;2017 : 1st SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn : 1st Stage 4 OVO Energy Women's Tour : 3rd GP de Plouay – Bretagne : 3rd Omloop van het Hageland ;2018 : 1st Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik : 1st Stage 3 The Women's Tour : 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships : 5th Road race, Commonwealth Games ;2019 : 1st Clasica Femenina Navarra : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;2020 : 4th Gent–Wevelgem : 4th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne : 5th Tour of Flanders ;2021 : 1st Road r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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