The 2020
Paris–Roubaix Femmes
Paris–Roubaix Femmes is a one day women's bicycle race on cobbled roads (or pavé) in northern France, held annually in early April. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The Paris–Roubaix, equivalent men's race is a cycling monument, a ...
was a one-day
road cycling
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race scheduled to take place on 25 October 2020, on the same day as the postponed
men's race, which had been rescheduled from its traditional date in April due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. The announcement of the inaugural women's edition of Paris–Roubaix came as a surprise addition to the revised
2020 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2020 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that initially included twenty-one road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2020 in women's road cycling, 2020 women's cycling season. It was the fifth edition of the ranking system ...
calendar.
However, on 9 October 2020, the race was cancelled due to an increase of coronavirus cases in France. The race would have been the first women's edition of Paris–Roubaix. The first edition of Paris–Roubaix Femmes subsequently took place in
2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
.
Route
The inaugural women's edition of
Paris–Roubaix
Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the 'Cycling monument, Monuments' ...
would have started in
Denain
Denain (; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Denain had a population of 19,877, on a land area of 11.52 km2 (4.448 sq mi).
It is the largest of 47 communes which comprise the Communauté d'agglomération de la Por ...
and finished on the velodrome in
Roubaix
Roubaix ( , ; ; ; ) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, depar ...
covering . It would have featured of cobblestones, spread out over 17 sectors.
Teams
Eight UCI Women's WorldTeams and fifteen UCI Women's Continental Teams were due to make up the twenty-three competing teams.
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See also
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2020 in women's road cycling
References
External links
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2020
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Tour
2020 UCI Women's World Tour
Paris–Roubaix (women's race)
Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the 'Cycling monument, Monuments' ...