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2018 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
The 2018 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana was a women's cycle stage race that was held in Spain from 22 to 25 February, 2018 in women's road cycling, 2018. The 2018 edition of the race was the second edition of the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana. The race was won by British rider Hannah Barnes, riding for the team, taking two stage victories during the event. Barnes finished 17 seconds clear of her closest competitor, South Africa's Ashleigh Moolman (), while the podium was completed by the highest-placed home rider, Alicia González Blanco of the , a further eight seconds in arrears. In the other classifications, Moolman won the polka-dot jersey for winning the mountains classification, while Cristina Martínez (cyclist), Cristina Martínez () won the yellow jersey for top rider from the Valencian Community. Other jerseys were won by Belle De Gast (mountains for ) and Abby-Mae Parkinson (young rider for ), while won the teams classification, placing Barnes, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Barnes
Hannah Mary Barnes (born 4 May 1993) is a British racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She is the sister of fellow racing cyclist Alice Barnes, who rides for . Career Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Barnes grew up in Bladon, Oxfordshire and later moved to Towcester, Northamptonshire. Barnes began cycling with Milton Keynes based Team Keyne at the age of 10, before joining Palmer Park Velo in Reading after she was spotted and invited to join British Cycling's Talent Team. Barnes was the under 14 omnium National Champion, a title held the previous year by Laura Trott, and the following year by Lucy Garner. A handful of national titles followed as an under 16 rider on the track, and again as a junior, when she also added the junior British National Time Trial Championships to her palmarès. As a junior rider, she also won the senior women's British National Circuit Race Championships in 2010 and 2011. Barnes represented England at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Women's Team
A UCI Women's Team is a women's road bicycle team sanctioned by the International Cycling Union ( UCI). These teams compete in the major women's bicycle races including the UCI Women's Road World Cup and the team time trial for trade teams at the UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events .... The country designation of each team is determined by the country of registration of the most its riders, and is not necessarily the country where the team is registered or based. Current teams Former UCI Women's teams Teams by year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 References External linksUCI Women's Team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 23 August 1995) is a Danish professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career As a junior, she competed at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships and the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. In the 2018 La Course by Le Tour de France she finished in 4th place, with her teammate Ashleigh Moolman taking the final podium place. She also took the mountains classification in this race. After this race she gave her first of what would become several excitable interviews, with this one including advice for any cyclist who has bad legs to have their wisdom teeth removed. At the very end she said was so excited for chocolate and champagne and pizza and vacation. Over the next few years her results in France would only get better. The next year she claimed the final podium place, in 2021 she placed 2nd, and in 2022 she won a stage. She finished on the podium in 3rd in the 2019 Tour of Flanders. Her post race interview went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Duval
Eugénie Duval (born 3 May 1993) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2014 : 10th Cholet Pays de Loire Dames : 2nd Scratch, Open des Nations sur Piste de Roubaix (Under-23) ;2016 : 2nd Points race, Fenioux France Trophy : 5th Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin ;2017 : 6th Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships : 6th Time trial, National Road Championships : 6th Chrono des Nations : 8th Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT ;2018 : 1st Mountains classification Boels Ladies Tour : 4th Tour de Belle Isle en Terre-Kreiz Breizh Elites Dames : 5th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana : 5th La Classique Morbihan : 6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Dames : 8th Grand Prix de Dottignies : 8th Time trial, National Road Championships ;2019 : 5th Mixed team relay, UEC European Road Championships : 5th La Périgord Ladies : 6th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benidorm
Benidorm is a town and municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Benidorm has been a tourist destination within Spain since 1925, when its port was extended and the first hotels were built, though it would not be until the 1950s that it became renowned as a summer destination for people coming from inland Spain, especially Madrid. Today it is known for its hotel industry, beaches, and skyscrapers and receives as many tourists from abroad as from Spain. According to the 2020 census, Benidorm has a permanent population of 70,450 inhabitants, making it the fifth-most populous town in the Alicante province and the ninth in Valencian Community. History It is thought there were settlements in the Benidorm area possibly as far back as 3000 BC, including evidence of Ancient Rome, Roman and Punic remains. However, settlements in the area were small and it was not until the arrival of the Moors that the local population b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Steigenga
Nicole Steigenga (born 27 January 1998) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She rode for in the women's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2021 : 1st Rushes classification Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche ;2022 : 2nd Ronde de Mouscron Ronde may refer to: * Rønde, a town in Denmark * '' Majin Tensei: Ronde'', a Japanese Sega Saturn game * Ronde script (calligraphy) * Ronde Barber, American sports broadcaster and former football player * Rondé, a Dutch indie pop band See also ... : 2nd Leiedal Koerse : 7th Overall Bloeizone Fryslân Tour References External links * 1998 births Living people Dutch female cyclists Sportspeople from Sneek Cyclists from Friesland 21st-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6 million, constituting one of the major urban areas on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, at the Gulf of Valencia, north of the Albufera lagoon. Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC. Islamic rule and acculturation ensued in the 8th century, together with the introduction of new irrigation systems and crops. Aragonese Christian conquest took place in 1238, and so the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Valencia. The city's population thrived in the 15th century, owing to trade with the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, Italian ports and other loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagunto
Sagunto ( ca-valencia, Sagunt) is a municipality of Spain, located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community. It belongs to the modern fertile ''comarca'' of Camp de Morvedre. It is located c. 30 km north of the city of Valencia, close to the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea. It is best known for the remains of the ancient Iberian and Roman city of ''Saguntum''. The siege of Saguntum in 219 BC was the trigger of the Second Punic War between the Carthaginians and the Romans. The municipality includes three differentiated urban nuclei: Ciutat Vella (Sagunto), and . Over half of the population lives in the coastal settlement of Puerto de Sagunto. History Gaspar Juan Escolano, in his ''Decades of the History of Valencia'' (1610-11), writes that the first settlers of Sagunto were Armenian families, the Sagas, who came to the peninsula with Tubal and laid the first foundations of the city naming it Sagunt (Armenian: of Saga). There is also a speculation th ... [...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 WorldTeam . Bastianelli won the 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 Sport to overturn the ban, however the CAS instead extended her ban to tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villarreal
Villarreal ( ca-valencia , Vila-real) is a city and municipality in the province of Castellón which is part of the Valencian Community in the east of Spain. The town is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital ( Castelló de la Plana). Villarreal is separated from Castelló de la Plana by the Millars River. It has 51,367 inhabitants (2010 data), most of them living in the urban area that covers about 10.7% of its ''comarca's'' 55.4 km2 surface. Ranked by population, it is the second-largest city in the province (after the capital), and fifteenth in the Valencian Community. The town was founded with royal status by King James I of Aragon in 1274 during his campaign to regain Muslim territory in present-day Valencia during the Reconquista. It later became an agricultural centre for orange cultivation, and more recently a centre for the ceramics industry. The city is the birthplace of Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (1852–190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castellón De La Plana
Castellón de la Plana (officially in ca-valencia, Castelló de la Plana), or simply Castellón ( ca-valencia, Castelló, link=no) is the capital city of the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar (or ''Costa dels Tarongers'') by the Mediterranean Sea. The mountain range known as Desert de les Palmes rises inland north of the town. According to the 2018 census, Castellón has a population of 174,264 inhabitants (called ''castellonencs'' in Valencian), ranking as the fourth most populated city in the Valencian Community (after Valencia, Alicante and Elche). The Prime Meridian, or Greenwich Meridian, intersects the 40th parallel at Castellón de la Plana and is commemorated with a monolith in Meridian Park (''Parc del Meridià'') located at the exact point where this occurs. History The town inherited the name from a Moorish castle on the top of the hill of Magdalena (the ), a dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
