The 2015 Le Samyn des Dames was the fourth running of the women's

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, a women's

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in Hainaut,

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. It was held on 4 March 2015 over a distance of starting in

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and finishing in

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. It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race.Le Samyn des Dames 2015
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Race

Due to the high speed in the beginning of the race, the bunch broke into several groups. The first group got an advantage of 25 seconds, but later it all came together. Within the last two laps of a circuit there were the first mountain sprints. The first sprint was won by

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ahead of

Chloe Hosking Chloe Hosking (born 1 October 1990) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Hosking has represented Australia at junior and then senior levels since 2007. Following success in a number of in ...

and

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 ...

, of which Van der Breggen and Van Dijk were the two riders who broke away on a mountain in

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a few days earlier and won the race. Due to the mountain sprint the peloton broke in several groups. After the second mountain sprint won by

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ahead of

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and

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tried to escape but was pulled back a bit later. In the last lap six riders (Johansson,

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, Van der Breggen, Hosking,

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and

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) from the front group escaped with to go and got a maximum advantage of 1 minutes and 10 seconds with to go. Johansson reached the third mountain first, ahead of Guarnier and Moolman. In the final after the last cobbled section, van Dijk started chasing at the head of the peloton and was able to close the gap with the front group. She also was a good lead-out for her team mate

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who won the peloton sprint. Van der Breggen finished second and Johansson third.

Race

Result

References

See also