The 2022 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine was a Belgian

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one-day race that took place on 20 April 2022. It was the 25th edition of La Flèche Wallonne Féminine and the 9th event of the

2022 UCI Women's World Tour The 2022 UCI Women's World Tour is a competition that includes twenty-five road cycling events throughout the 2022 women's cycling season. It is the seventh edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste ...

. Italian

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 ...

won the race for the first time.

Route

The race started and finished in Huy, with the finish line on the top of the final ascent of the

Mur de Huy The Mur de Huy ( en, Wall of Huy) is a high hill located in Huy, Wallonia, Belgium. It is also known as ''le Chemin des Chapelles'' ( en, The Path of the Chapels) because of the seven chapels along its route. This climb is famous for being part ...

- one of three ascents of the Mur on the route. The race covered the same final 90km as the men's race, totalling 130.2 km. There were 8 categorised climbs: *65 km: Côte de Cherave - 1.5 km climb at 7.6% *71 km:

- 1.3 km climb at 9.6% *84 km: Côte d'Ereffe - 2.1 km climb at 4.6% *96.5 km: Côte de Cherave - 1.5 km climb at 7.6% *102 km: Mur de Huy - 1.3 km climb at 9.6% *111.1 km: Côte d'Ereffe - 2.1 km climb at 4.6% *127.5 km: Côte de Cherave - 1.5 km climb at 7.6% *133.4 km: Mur de Huy - 1.3 km climb at 9.4%

Summary

Seven-time winner of La Flèche Wallonne Féminine Anna van der Breggen retired from the sport at the end of 2021 and therefore did not defend her 2021 title. In the race itself, a large breakaway of 15 riders was caught before the bottom of the final ascent of the Mur de Huy. On the climb,

Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Van Vleuten is a two-time winner of both the road race (2019 and 2022) and the time trial (2017 and 2018) at the UCI ...

of attacked with 400m to go on the steepest section of the ascent. However,

of was able to stay with van Vleuten, and passed her with around 50 metres to go before the line, winning the 2022 edition. Behind van Vleuten in third place was

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 fi ...

of , 10 seconds behind.

Result

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