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…
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…
SPRINTER SHINES ON STAGE ONE OF THE ASDA WOMEN’S TOUR DE YORKSHIRE, BUT VOS-SING IT! MARIANNE WINS THE OVERALL 2019 ASDA TOUR DE YORKSHIRE WOMEN’S RACE Press Release – Round Up, Images Chris Maher. Barnsley To Bedale It was a stage for the sprinters and, unlike their male counterparts in yesterday’s TDY stage, the peloton…
Coryn Rivera wins 2018 OVO Energy Women’s Tour as Lotta Lepistö claims Welsh finale Team Sunweb’s Coryn Rivera became the fifth different winner of the OVO Energy Women’s Tour as she finished Sunday’s first-ever Welsh stage into Colwyn Bay – won by Lotta Lepistö (Cervélo-Bigla) – safely within the bunch. Lepistö, who previously won the…
Former UCI Road World Champion Amalie Dideriksen claimed Boels-Dolmans’ first win in the 2018 OVO Energy Women’s Tour by sprinting to victory in Worcester on Saturday afternoon. The Danish rider looked in total control along the long finishing straight on Hylton Road, holding off former former stage winners Lotta Lepistö (Cervélo-Bigla), Marianne Vos (WaowDeals Pro…
Mitchelton-SCOTT made it two wins in three days at this year’s OVO Energy Women’s Tour on Friday, asAustralian Sarah Roy sprinted to victory in Royal Leamington Spa. Roy, who won Stage Four of last year’s race in Chesterfield, out-sprinted Giorgia Broznini (Cylance Pro Cycling) and 2014 champion Marianne Vos (WaowDeals Pro Cycling) to claim the…