The women's race of the 2010 Sparkassen Giro Bochum took place on 8 August

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. It was the 10th women's edition of the

Sparkassen Giro Bochum The Sparkassen Giro Bochum is a road bicycle race which is annually held for both men's and women's around an urban circuit in the German city of Bochum, Germany. Since 2005 the men's race is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as UCI ...

. The race started and ended in

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

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and spanned . 57 of the 97 participants finished. The race is a UCI 1.1 category race.

Race

The 2010 Sparkassen Giro Bochum was won by the Dutch rider

Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time ...

(), who won the sprint from a breakaway group of nine riders in wet and miserable conditions.

Tiffany Cromwell Tiffany Jane Cromwell (born 6 July 1988) is an Australian road and gravel cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career Road Junior career Starting in 2002, after being identified by the South Australian sports insti ...

and

Maaike Polspoel Maaike Polspoel (born 28 March 1989) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 29th. Major results ;2008 : 3rd Buggenhout- Opstal : 8th Grand Prix de Dottignies ;201 ...

finished second and third with over three times the length of a bicycle behind Van Dijk.

Results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:2010 Sparkassen Giro 2010 in German sport Sparkassen Giro 2010 in women's road cycling