The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's

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held in

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. The race was first held in

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as a one-day race. Between

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and

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

it was rated as an UCI 1.1 category race. Since

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, it has been run as a

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. Between 2021 and 2023, the race was part of the UCI Women's ProSeries, the second tier women's elite

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tour. The race is named after Luxembourgish cyclist

Elsy Jacobs Elsy Jacobs (4 March 1933 – 27 February 1998) was a Luxembourgish road bicycle racer. She became the first ever women's Road World Champion when she won the inaugural race on 30 August 1958. Later the same year she broke the women's hour ...

, the first winner of the

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, which took place at

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, France in

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. Jacobs was also the

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holder from 1958 to 1972, as well as fifteen-time Luxembourgish national champion.

Winners

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