UCI World Road Race Championships 2019 – Elite Women Dutch rider Annemiek Van Vleuten launched a solo attack with 104km remaining of the 149.4km race, with defending champion, Dutch teammate, Anna van der Breggen claiming the silver medal, whilst Australian Amanda Spratt came in third. Words by Heather Bamforth, Images by Chris Maher The…
Lizzie Deignan wins OVO Energy Women’s Tour Great Britain’s Lizzie Deignan became the first rider to win two OVO Energy Women’s Tour titles as she sealed the 2019 crown at Pembrey Country Park, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday. The Trek Segafredo rider, who only returned to racing in late April following maternity leave, finished eighth in a…
Lizzie Deignan takes OVO Energy Women’s Tour lead in Wales Britain’s Lizzie Deignan claimed her first victory since returning from maternity leave in Friday’s fifth OVO Energy Women’s Tour stage in Builth Wells, Powys, to move into the race lead with just one stage remaining. Deignan, the race’s 2016 champion, out-sprinted Thursday’s stage victor…
Kasia Niewiadoma wins first-ever OVO Energy Women’s Tour hill-top finish Canyon//SRAM Racing’s Kasia Niewiadoma made light of inclement conditions to win the OVO Energy Women’s Tour’s first hill-top finish at Burton Dassett Country Park, Warwickshire, on Wednesday. The Polish rider, who won the 2017 race, outsprinted Team Sunweb’s Liane Lippert after the duo had broken…
Jolien D’hoore wins Suffolk opener for OVO Energy Women’s Tour Belgian rider Jolien D’hoore sprinted to victory on the opening day of the OVO Energy Women’s Tour in Suffolk for the second year running, leading a Boels Dolmans Cycling Team one-two across the line after a testing day in gruelling conditions. D’hoore, winner in Southwold…
Ahead of the opening stage of the OVO Energy Women’s Tour on Monday (10 June) in Suffolk, four of the race’s previous five champions, Lizzie Deignan, Marianne Vos, Kasia Niewiadoma and Coryn Rivera, spoke at a pre-race media event in Ipswich, looking ahead to the six day race. The quartet, along with 2015 winner Lisa…