The 2022 The Women's Tour was the eighth 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

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held in Great Britain. It ran from 6 to 11 June 2022, as part of the

2022 UCI Women's World Tour The 2022 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included twenty-three road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2022 in women's road cycling, 2022 women's cycling season. It was the seventh edition of the UCI Women's World To ...

. The race was won by

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 Trek–Segafredo, by a margin of just 1 second.

Route

The route was announced in spring 2022, with stage 5 having a mountain top finish on Black Mountain in the

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in Wales. The finish was noted to be the hardest mountain top finish of a Women's Tour, with an average gradient of 5.3%.

Summary

97 riders from 17 teams were entered in the race, with 13 of the teams being from the

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 Wo ...

. For the first time, all stages were broadcast live.

came third in the final bunch sprint in Oxford, gaining 4 bonus seconds and taking the overall classification by just 1 second from Grace Brown. To honour journalist Richard Moore, a special award for the rider who "went above and beyond with the media" was presented to Clara Copponi.

Classification leadership table

Result

References

External links

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