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2024 Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
The 2024 Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes was a Belgian road cycling one-day race that took place on 21 April. It was the 8th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes and the 14th event of the 2024 UCI Women's World Tour. The race was won by Australian rider Grace Brown of FDJ–Suez in a sprint finish of 6 breakaway riders. Teams Twenty-four teams took part in the race. UCI Women's WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCI Women's Continental Teams * * * * * * * * * Route With a route similar to the previous editions of the race, the race started in Bastogne and finished in Liège, at the same location as the men's race. At , the race was approximately half the distance of the men's event. The route featured ten categorised climbs: the Côte de Saint-Roch, Côte de Mont-le-Soie, Côte de Wanne, Côte de Stockeu, Côte de Haute-Levée, Col du Rosier, Côte de Desnié, Côte de La Redoute, Côte des Forges and Côte de la Roche aux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2024 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-seven road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2024 in women's road cycling, 2024 women's cycling season. It was be the ninth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2016. The competition began with the 2024 Women's Tour Down Under, Women's Tour Down Under from 12 to 14 January, and finished with the Tour of Guangxi on 20 October. Belgian rider Lotte Kopecky () won the individual classification with 4596 points, after a close battle with her teammate Demi Vollering throughout the season. Kopecky had six overall victories, including 2024 Strade Bianche Donne, Strade Bianche Donne and 2024 Paris–Roubaix Femmes, Paris–Roubaix Femmes. Second place went to Dutch rider Demi Vollering () with 4175 points. Vollering won four events, including 2024 La Vuelta Femenina, La Vuelta Femenina. Third place was taken by Italian rider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liège
Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from borders with the Netherlands (Maastricht is about to the north) and with Germany (Aachen is about north-east). In Liège, the Meuse meets the river Ourthe. The city is part of the ''sillon industriel'', the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. It still is the principal economic and cultural centre of the region. The municipality consists of the following Deelgemeente, sub-municipalities: Angleur, Bressoux, Chênée, Glain, Grivegnée, Jupille-sur-Meuse, Liège proper, Rocourt, Liège, Rocourt, and Wandre. In November 2012, Liège had 198,280 inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,879 km2 (725 sq mi) and had a total population of 749,110 on 1 January 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 In Belgian Sport
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niamh Fisher-Black
Niamh Fisher-Black (born 12 August 2000) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She is the older sister of fellow racing cyclist Finn Fisher-Black, and was educated at Nelson College for Girls. Career 2022 Fisher-Black paid her own way to the 2022 road cycling world championships in Wollongong, Australia as Cycling New Zealand could not afford to meet the costs due to "a lack of government funding and the loss of key sponsors". In the 164 km road race, she was the first placed under-23 rider and 12th overall. She became the first under-23 world women's champion. Fisher-Black said of the win “I wasn't aware straightaway at first when I crossed the line hat I’d won the under-23 race" “The rainbow jersey, very few people have one and it’s the pinnacle of cycling so it’s super special to have...I think I showed I was the strongest under-23 rider on the day and nothing can take away from that.” 2023 In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricarda Bauernfeind
Ricarda Bauernfeind (born 1 April 2000) is a German professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She won stage five of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Major results ;2018 : 3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2021 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 10th Road race, European Under-23 Road Championships ;2022 : European Under-23 Road Championships ::1st Team relay ::5th Time trial : National Under-23 Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial : 1st Visegrad 4 Ladies Race Slovakia : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : UCI Under-23 Road World Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd Time trial : 3rd Overall Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées ::1st Young rider classification : 3rd Overall Vuelta Ciclista Andalucia Ruta Del Sol : 4th Grand Prix Féminin de Chambéry : 4th Visegrad 4 Ladies Race Hungary : 5th Overall Thüringen Ladies Tour ;2023 : 3rd Team relay, UCI Road World Championships : Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliette Labous
Juliette Labous (born 4 November 1998) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She rode in the women's road race event at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2015 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Time trial ::5th Road race : 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda Juniors : UEC European Junior Road Championships ::4th Road race ::5th Time trial : 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Junior Championships ;2016 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Time trial ::1st Road race : 1st Overall Albstadt-Frauen-Etappenrennen ::1st Stage 2b : 3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Junior Championships : 3rd Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships ;2017 : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska : 4th Time trial, National Road Championships : UEC European Under-23 Road Championships ::6th Road race ::10th Time trial : 9th Overall Tour of Norway : 9th La Classique Morbihan ;2018 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro Rosa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Vos
Marianne Vos (; born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . After winning a junior European and World Championship in road racing, she continued her success in senior cycling by becoming World Champion in cyclo-cross and road racing at the age of 19. Vos added track racing World Championships when she won the points race in 2008 and the scratch race in 2011. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's points race, points race; at the 2012 Summer Olympics, gold in the Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's individual road race, women's road race. She is a 3 times UCI Road World Championships, World Road Race Champion – in 2006, 2012 and 2013 – and 8 times UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, World Cyclo-cross Champion – in 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2022. She has multiple wins at the Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Cadzow
Kim Cadzow (born 18 December 2001) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for the UCI Women's Continental Team . She is the 2025 New Zealand Time Trial and Road Race Champion. Cadzow's sporting background was as a swimmer and professional triathlete competing mainly in 70.3 triathlon races. Kim swam for Greerton Swim Club in Tauranga, New Zealand specialising in backstroke and Individual Medley races. She was a regular competitor at National Age Group Champs and New Zealand Open Championships. Her brief period in 70.3 triathlon saw her progress to pro level quickly but she decided to concentrate on cycling after her first attempt at 2021 New Zealand Age Group Nationals produced 3rd place in both the time trial and road race. In 2022 Kim entered the Elite National Championships in New Zealand and won the Under-23 Time Trial. Shortly afterwards she achieved 2nd in the Oceania Under 23 Time Trial and headed to Europe for her first season with Torelli-Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma Phinney (; born 29 September 1994) is a Polish bicycle racing, racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Among her eighteen professional wins are the Tour de France Femmes in 2024 Tour de France Femmes, 2024, La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, La Flèche Wallonne in 2024 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, 2024, the Amstel Gold Race (women's race), Amstel Gold Race in 2019 Amstel Gold Race (women's race), 2019, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio in 2018, and the Women's Tour in 2017 The Women's Tour, 2017. She twice finished third overall in the Tour de France Femmes, in 2022 and 2023, taking the Queen of the Mountains jersey in 2023. In 2023, she became 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships, UCI Gravel World Champion. Early years Born in Limanowa, Niewiadoma started racing bikes with local club WLKS Krakus BBC Czaja and soon emerged as one of the most promising women riders in Poland with TKK Pacific Toruń. In 2013, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Chabbey
Elise Chabbey (born 24 April 1993 in Geneva) is a Swiss road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed as a slalom canoer in the K-1 event, finishing 20th in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals. For the 2021 season, Chabbey joined the team on a two-year contract, following the disbandment of . Starting with the 2024 season, she is riding for the French team FDJ-Suez. Major results ;2017 : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2019 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::3rd Time trial : 5th Overall Tour of Scotland ;2020 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd Time trial : 2nd Team relay, UEC European Road Championships ;2021 : 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Challenge by La Vuelta : 4th Ronde van Drenthe : 7th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 9th Overall The Women's Tour ::1st Mountains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the battle of Sprimont, which occurred at the village of Fontin, which is located on it, in the municipality of Esneux. It also runs along an access route to autoroute E25 level with the town of Remouchamps. The region is the birthplace of cyclist Philippe Gilbert Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who is best known for winning the 2012 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two rid .... Liège–Bastogne–Liège Climbs in cycle racing in Belgium Mountains and hills of the Ardennes (Belgium) Mountains and hills of Liège Province Aywaille {{Liège–Bastogne–Liège-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastogne
Bastogne (; ; ; ) 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, Longvilly, Noville, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, and Wardin. The town is situated on a ridge in the Ardennes at an elevation of . On 2 December 2024, it merged with Bertogne into a new municipality. History At the time of the Roman conquest the region of Bastogne was inhabited by the Treveri, a tribe of Gauls. A form of the name Bastogne was first mentioned only much later, in 634, when the local lord ceded these territories to the St Maximin's Abbey, near Trier. A century later, the Bastogne area went to the nearby Prüm Abbey. The town of Bastogne and its marketplace are again mentioned in an 887 document. By the 13th century, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, John the Blind, his son, granted the city its charter and had it enc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
