The 2018 Ovo Energy Women's Tour was the fifth staging of
The Women's Tour
The Tour of Britain Women is a women's cycle stage race held in England and Wales, as part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The race was organised between 2014 and 2023 by SweetSpot, the company behind the men's Tour of Britain, and was known as ...
, a women's cycling
stage race
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held in the United Kingdom. It ran from 13 to 17 June 2018, as part of the
2018 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2018 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-four road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2018 in women's road cycling, 2018 women's cycling season. It was the third edition of the ranking system launched ...
.
The race was won by American rider
Coryn Rivera
Coryn Labecki (Given name, née Rivera; born August 26, 1992) is an American racing cyclist of Filipino descent, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's Continental Team . She was previously a member of Jumbo-Visma (women's team), ...
of , after winning stage 2 and holding her lead to the finish.
Rivera also won the sprints classification. Second place overall was Dutch rider
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 c ...
of , with Vos also winning the points classification. Third place overall was Vos' teammate
Dani Rowe
Danielle 'Dani' Rowe Order of the British Empire, MBE (née King; born 21 November 1990) is a British former Road bicycle racing, road and track cyclist. She retired from cycling in December 2018.
A Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women ...
– the highest placed British rider overall. also won the teams classification. The mountains classification was won by Italian rider
Elisa Longo Borghini
Elisa Longo Borghini (born 10 December 1991) is an Italian professional road bicycle racing, road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam .
During her career, Longo Borghini has won the 2024 Giro d'Italia Women, Giro d'Ita ...
of .
Route
Classification leadership table
See also
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2018 in women's road cycling
2018 in women's road cycling is about the 2018 List of women's road bicycle races, women's bicycle races ruled by the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI and the List of 2018 UCI Women's Teams and riders, 2018 UCI Women's Teams.
World Championship ...
Notes
References
External links
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2018 UCI Women's World Tour
2018 in women's road cycling
2018 in British women's sport
2018
Events January
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June 2018 sports events in the United Kingdom