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2023 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2023 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-seven road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2023 in women's road cycling, 2023 women's cycling season. It was the eighth 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 2023 Women's Tour Down Under, Women's Tour Down Under from 15 to 17 January, and finished with the Tour of Guangxi on 17 October. Dutch rider Demi Vollering (SD Worx) won the individual classification with 4891.86 points, leading the classification for the majority of the season. She had seven overall victories, including winning all three Ardennes classics, as well as the second edition of 2023 Tour de France Femmes, Tour de France Femmes. Second place went to Belgian rider Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx), with 2735 points, over 2000 points behind Vollering. She won three events including the 2023 Tour of Flanders for Women, Tour o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Women's World Tour
The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour. , the tour includes 27 events in Europe, Asia and Oceania – with one-day races such as Strade Bianche Donne and Paris–Roubaix Femmes, stage races such as Women's Tour Down Under, as well as week long stage races (sometimes referred to as a " Grand Tour") such as Tour de France Femmes. History From 1998, the Union Cycliste Internationale The Union Cycliste Internationale (; UCI; ) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland. The UCI issues racing licenses to riders and enforces di ... (UCI) held the UCI Women's Road World Cup, a series of 8 to 10 one-day races held predominately in Europe. Although similarly branded, races did not have the same level of coverage as men's races. Many classic cycle races did not stage equivalent women's races – with the Tour of Flanders for Women first held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlen Reusser
Marlen Reusser (born 20 September 1991) is a Swiss racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career She took up competitive cycling whilst at university, riding in the cycling legs of mixed relay triathlons as an amateur. She entered the road events of the Swiss national cycling championships in 2017, a few months after receiving a racing licence and whilst in the final year of studies for a degree in medicine: she won the time trial and was runner up in the road race. Her success earned her selection for that year's European Road Championships. She also rode in the women's time trial event at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships. In 2019 Reusser took up a place at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, deciding to ride full-time. During her year with the WCC she finished third at the BeNe Ladies Tour and sixth in the World Championship individual time trial. The following year she took a top 10 finish at Liège–Bastogne–Liège. She also rode in the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loes Adegeest
Loes Adegeest (born 7 August 1996) is a Dutch racing cyclist and former speed skater. As a cyclist, she currently rides for after riding for Irish IBCT team, and the Dutch amateur team Jan van Arckel and Parkhotel Valkenburg. On 26 February 2022, Adegeest won the women's race at the 2022 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships representing e-racing team Aeonian Race Team. In January 2023 she won her first UCI Women's World Tour race, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. In February 2023 she defended her title as the UCI Cycling Esports World Champion. Major results ;2021 : 3rd Overall Rás na mBan ::1st Stage 4 ;2022 : 1st UCI Esports World Championships : 4th Time trial, National Road Championships : 4th Dwars door het Hageland : 5th Overall Belgium Tour ::1st Mountains classification ;2023 : 1st UCI Esports World Championships : 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 1st Mountains classification, Tour de Romandie : 8th Overall Itzulia Women ;2024 : Combativity aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (women's Race)
The 2023 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race - Elite Women was an Australian road cycling one-day race that took place on 28 January 2023. It was the 7th edition of Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the 2nd event of the 2023 UCI Women's World Tour. It was won by Dutch rider Loes Adegeest of FDJ Suez in a sprint finish. Teams Twelve teams took part in the event, including six UCI Women's WorldTeams, and three teams from Australia. UCI Women's WorldTeams * * * * * * UCI Women's Continental Teams * * * * * National Teams * Australia Route The race started and finished in Geelong, Victoria using a course. Starting from Geelong, the course travelled through the Bellarine Peninsula and Surf Coast, before returning to Geelong for two loops of a circuit around the city. This circuit featured the 830m Challambra climb with an average gradient of 8.9%, as used in the 2010 UCI Road World Championships. Result The race was won by Dutch rider Loes Adegeest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Williams
Georgia Williams (born 25 August 1993) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career She took up cycling whilst attending Albany Junior High School, where testing at the school's sports academy suggested that she was suited to the sport, having previously competed in netball and water polo. She took two silver medals at the UCI Juniors Track World Championships: one in the team pursuit in 2010 and another in the individual pursuit in 2011. Williams joined the team in 2013. She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2016, she was part of the New Zealand team pursuit squads that finished fourth at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In February 2017 it was announced that Williams would join for the 2017 season. She won New Zealand's second ever medal in the women's road race at a Commonwealth Games, a silver medal in 2018, after Susy Pryde at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Major re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Spratt
Amanda Spratt (born 17 September 1987) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Spratt was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2012, 2016 and 2020 she won the Australian National Road Race Championships in Buninyong, Victoria. In 2018, she secured the silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria. Personal Spratt, nicknamed "Spratty", was born on 17 September 1987 in Penrith, New South Wales, which is a suburb of Sydney. She went to Springwood Public School before going to Blue Mountains Grammar School for high school. From 2007 to 2008, she attended Charles Sturt University where she earned a University Certificate in Business. , she lived in Springwood, New South Wales. Spratt is a member of the Riders Council of The Cyclists' Alliance. Cycling Spratt raced in BMX events as a junior and competed in the BMX World Championships in Melbourne when she was 11. She began r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Brown (cyclist)
Grace Brown (born 7 July 1992) is a former Australian road racing cyclist, specialising in road Time trial, time trialling, who last rode for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . In her final year of professional cycling, Brown won the Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's road time trial, women's individual time trial event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics, the same event at 2024 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial, the 2024 UCI World Road Cycling Championships and her fourth time trial title at the Australian National Time Trial Championships#Women, Australian Road Cycling Championships. She just missed out on a medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo 2020 Olympics Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's road time trial, women's time trial, finishing fourth. She also competed in the Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's individual road race, women's road race where she came 47th. She also won the monument classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey Violet
Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and government institutions, so qualifies as a small nation or island country. Located in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of north-west France, it is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from Normandy's Cotentin Peninsula. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vuelta Femenina
La Vuelta Femenina (; "The Female Tour") is an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional bicycle race held in Spain. The race is organised by Unipublic and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises the men's Vuelta a España. It is part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour. Some teams and media have referred to the race as a Grand Tour (cycling), 'Grand Tour', as it is one of the biggest events on the women's calendar. However, the race does not meet the UCI definition of such an event. La Vuelta Femenina replaces the Challenge by La Vuelta stage race (previously one day race) run between 2015 and 2022, staged at the same time as the men's tour. History Challenge by La Vuelta In 2015 La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta, 2015, La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta was first held as a one-day road race in the centre of Madrid, coinciding with the final day of the Vuelta a España. The race was similar to the La Course by Le Tour de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and holds significant prestige because of it. Since 2017, the race has been part of the UCI World Tour, cycling's top-tier professional events. The race starts in Ghent, Flanders and finishes in Ninove, Flanders. The race route covers the hills in the Flemish Ardennes, marking the start of the cobbled classics season in Europe. Due to its early calendar date, it is characterized by often cold weather, coming as a contrast to the early-season stage races in the Middle East and Southern Europe. The day after the , Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne completes the opening weekend. The race is named after the newspaper sponsoring the event – '' Het Volk'' from 1947 to 2009, and ''Het Nieuwsblad'' from 2009 to present. Since 1950, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad U23, a race for unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Tour Down Under
The Women's Tour Down Under (known for sponsorship reasons as the Santos Limited, Santos Women's Tour Down Under) is an annual professional road bicycle racing for women in Australia. It is held in conjunction with the Tour Down Under. From 2016, it was rated as UCI race classifications, UCI 2.2, from 2018 as UCI 2.1., from 2020 Women's UCI ProSeries and from 2022 UCI Women's World Tour. History Women's racing at the Tour Down Under began in the late 2000s as a series of exhibition criterium races in conjunction with the Tour Down Under event (for example, at the 2007 Tour Down Under). This eventually formed part of the women's National Road Series (2015), with these races variously operating under guises deriving from the parent event's name. In 2016, organisers developed a new UCI-classified event that carried the 'Women's Tour' name, and was ranked as a new UCI 2.2. stage race with international teams invited to compete. The event considers the 'Women's Tour Down Under' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Fleche Wallonne Podium Shirin Van Anrooij1
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