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2021 Gent–Wevelgem (women's Race)
The tenth edition of the Gent–Wevelgem's women's race was held on Sunday 28 March 2021. It was the fourth event of the 2021 UCI Women's World Tour and was won by Marianne Vos in a sprint. Route Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, the race organisers ask spectators to follow the race from home and have released limited information on the course to the public before the race started. Teams Nine UCI Women's WorldTeams and fifteen UCI Women's Continental Teams will compete in the race. Out of 144 riders that started the race there were 111 finishers. UCI Women's WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * UCI Women's Continental Teams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Results See also * 2021 in women's road cycling 2021 in women's road cycling is about the 2021 women's bicycle races ruled by the UCI and the 2021 UCI Women's Teams. Olympic Games World Championships UCI Women's WorldTour Single day races (1.Pro, 1.1 and 1.2) Stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2021 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included eighteen road cycling events throughout the 2021 women's cycling season. It was the sixth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with Strade Bianche on 6 March, and finished with the Ronde van Drenthe on 23 October. Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten () became the first rider to win the individual classification for a second time, taking a season-high four overall victories during the season, finishing the season with a tally of 3177 points. Second place went to another Dutch rider, as Demi Vollering () finished on 2563 points, having taken three overall victories in 2021, while third place on 2509 points, was two-time winner Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy, riding for . A total of nine riders won races during the season, while the individual classification lead changed eight times between van Vleuten, Vollering, Longo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
2021 In Women's Road Cycling
2021 in women's road cycling is about the 2021 women's bicycle races ruled by the UCI and the 2021 UCI Women's Teams. Olympic Games World Championships 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 References {{Years in road cycling * Women's road cycling by year ... [...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] |
Emma Norsgaard Jørgensen
Emma Cecilie Norsgaard Bjerg née Jørgensen (born 26 July 1999) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Her major victories include winning stage six of the 2021 Giro Rosa (now called the Giro Donne) and stage six of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Personal life Her brother Mathias Norsgaard is also a professional cyclist, with the . Norsgaard married cyclist Mikkel Bjerg in 2021. Major results ;2015 : 3rd Overall Rás na mBan ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 2 ;2016 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 6th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2017 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships : 2nd Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships : UEC European Junior Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::3rd Time trial : 3rd Overall Energiewacht Tour Juniors ;2018 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2020 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 1 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana ... [...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] |
Kristen Faulkner
Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . Her first year cycling professionally, she was also working full-time as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Biography Faulkner was born in Homer, Alaska. She was raised in the Alaskan fishing community along with four siblings. Faulkner graduated from Harvard in 2016 with a B.A in Computer Science, where she competed in varsity rowing. She holds the university's record for fastest 2k indoor rowing time for lightweight women. Before that, she attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where she was an honor roll student and varsity runner, swimmer, and rower. Faulkner started competitive cycling in New York City in 2017. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018 and joined Team Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank in 2020. She won the Women's road time trial, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia Fahlin
Emilia Fahlin (born 24 October 1988) is a Swedish road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Fahlin has won the Swedish National Road Race Championships three times (2008, 2013, 2018) and the Swedish National Time Trial Championships three times in a row from 2009 to 2011. Career Born in Örebro, Sweden, Fahlin competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London during the women's road race, finishing 19th, and in the women's time trial, finishing 17th. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she finished 27th in the Women's road race. Two weeks later, in late-August 2016, she won her first World Tour race, the Open de Suède Vårgårda in Sweden. In June 2019, Fahlin announced that she would be taking a break from racing to recover from injuries sustained in a training crash. She returned in September to place 15th in the 2019 UCI World Championships Road Race. Major results Source: ;2005 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Balsamo (cyclist)
Elisa Balsamo (born 27 February 1998) is an Italian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Team , and represents Italy at international competitions. After competing at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in the women's junior road race she became junior world champion at the 2016 UCI Road World Championships in the junior's road race. She won the gold medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the team pursuit. Early life Balsamo was born in Cuneo in 1998. Her father was an amateur cyclist. Before taking up cycling, she had competed in a number of skiing disciplines, as well as biathlon and swimming. Career Balsamo's first major win came at the 2016 UCI Road World Championships in Doha, where she won the Road Race in a bunch sprint ahead of Skylar Schneider. She signed for for the 2017 season. Her first professional win came at the Omloop van Borsele in April 2018, followed by a win at the GP Bruno Beghelli later in the year. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Vos
Marianne Vos (; born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . After winning a junior European and World Championship in road racing, she continued her success in senior cycling by becoming World Champion in cyclo-cross and road racing at the age of 19. Vos added track racing World Championships when she won the points race in 2008 and the scratch race in 2011. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the points race; at the 2012 Summer Olympics, gold in the women's road race. She is a 3 times World Road Race Champion – in 2006, 2012 and 2013 – and 8 times World Cyclo-cross Champion – in 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2022. She has multiple wins at the Giro Rosa, Holland Ladies Tour, Ladies Tour of Norway, La Flèche Wallonne, Ronde van Drenthe, Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, Emakumeen Euskal Bira and GP de Plouay – Bretagne; also she ranked first in po ... [...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] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Belgium
The COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Belgium on 4 February 2020, when one of a group of nine Belgians repatriated from Wuhan to Brussels was reported to have tested positive for the coronavirus. Transmission within Belgium was confirmed in early March; authorities linked this to holidaymakers returning from Northern Italy at the end of the half-term holidays. The epidemic increased rapidly in March–April 2020. By the end of March all 10 provinces of the country had registered cases. By March 2021, Belgium had the third highest number of COVID-19 deaths per head of population in the world, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. However, Belgium may have been over-reporting the number of cases, with health officials reporting that suspected cases were being reported along with confirmed cases. Unlike some countries that publish figures based primarily on confirmed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
