The 2022 Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes was a

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one-day race that took place on 24 April 2022. It was the 6th edition of

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes is the women's event of Liège–Bastogne–Liège, an annual road bicycle racing event in Wallonia, Belgium, held in late April. The inaugural race, won by Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen, was run on 23 Ap ...

and the 10th event of the

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. The race was won for the second time by Dutch rider

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 ...

Route

With a route similar to the previous editions of the race, the race started in

Bastogne Bastogne (; nl, Bastenaken, ; german: Bastnach/Bastenach; lb, Baaschtnech) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Bastogne, ...

and finished in

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. At , the race was approximately half the distance of the men's event. It started in Bastogne, from where it headed north to finish in

on the same location as the men's race. The route featured seven categorised climbs: the Côte de Mont-Le-Soie, Côte de Wanne, Côte de la Haute-Levée, Col de Rosier, Côte de Desnié,

Côte de La Redoute The Côte de La Redoute is a climb, often included in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle route. It is located in Wallonia in the municipality of Aywaille and its incline is 1.6 km long with an average of 9.5%. It is named after a redoubt in t ...

and Côte de la Roche aux Faucons. The key difference to the route was the omission of Côte des Forges from the route following severe flooding in July 2021.

Summary

With around 30 km to go,

of Movistar Team attacked on

, bridging the gap to a breakaway. A group of sixteen riders chased down van Vleuten, coming back together with around 20 km to go. Approaching the final climb of Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, Grace Brown of counter attacked and opened a small gap to the leading group - however van Vleuten attacked again, this time going solo and extending her lead over the final 10 kilometres. She crossed the finish line in Liège 43 seconds ahead of Grace Brown, who won the sprint for second place ahead of

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Results

References

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