Lorena Wiebes won the 2026 Copenhagen Sprint Women, returning from her Giro d’Italia Women disqualification with the clearest possible response in Copenhagen. The Team SD Worx-Protime sprinter launched inside the final 400 metres and proved too strong again, beating Charlotte Kool and Nienke Veenhoven after a controlled bunch sprint on the city-centre circuit. Kool finished […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 will be remembered as one of the race’s great late reversals. Demi Vollering did not simply win the Giro. She took it away from Anna van der Breggen on the final day, after a race that had seemed to tilt towards the former world and Olympic champion after the Nevegal […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 did more than deliver a dramatic final-stage reversal. It reshaped the balance of the women’s WorldTour season, gave Demi Vollering a major Grand Tour win built on persistence rather than control, and turned the summer’s remaining stage-race picture into something far more open than it had looked after the Nevegal […]
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Demi Vollering won stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 on the Colle delle Finestre, taking her second stage victory of the race and moving closer to Anna van der Breggen in the general classification. The queen stage did not finish in Sestriere as planned, with the race shortened because of the risk of […]
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Célia Gery took the biggest win of her young career on stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026, outsprinting Lucinda Brand and Chantal Pegolo in Salice Terme after a late move survived by seconds. The stage looked as though it might come back together inside the final kilometre, but the attackers held off the […]
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Célia Gery took a superb victory on stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026, winning in Salice Terme after a fast, tense finale where the late break just managed to hold off the chasing peloton. The FDJ United-SUEZ rider came around Lucinda Brand after the final corner, using the short uphill drag to the […]
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Elisa Balsamo tightened her grip on the points classification with another stage win at the Giro d’Italia Women 2026, sprinting to victory in Brescello after a flat but far from simple stage 6. Maggie Coles-Lyster went early in the finale but was caught by Balsamo in the final metres, with Georgia Baker completing the podium. […]
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Elisa Balsamo continued her remarkable Giro d’Italia Women with a fourth stage victory of the race, sprinting to win stage 6 in Brescello after a long, tense day that carried the peloton out of the hills and onto the Po Valley. The Lidl-Trek rider came around Maggie Coles-Lyster in the final metres after a superb […]
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Demi Vollering won stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 in Santo Stefano di Cadore, taking the sprint from an elite GC group after the race split decisively on the Dolomite climbs. Anna van der Breggen finished second on the stage and kept the maglia rosa, but the overall picture tightened behind her as […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 changes rhythm again on stage 6, moving from the Dolomite climbing of Santo Stefano di Cadore to a flatter 159km route from Ala to Brescello. After the Nevegal uphill time trial and the first major mountain road stage, this is the clearest opportunity for the sprinters to return to the […]
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Anna van der Breggen took control of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 on stage 4, winning the uphill individual time trial from Belluno to Nevegal and moving into the maglia rosa with a commanding performance. After three days shaped by Elisa Balsamo’s sprint strength, the race has now shifted decisively towards the climbers and general […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 moves from the controlled brutality of the Nevegal uphill time trial into its first major mountain road stage on stage 5, with 146km from Longarone to Santo Stefano di Cadore. After three sprint and reduced-sprint stages, then a short but sharp individual test against the clock, this is where the […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches its first major general classification checkpoint on stage 4, with the riders tackling the uphill individual time trial from Belluno to Nevegal. The official start order has now been confirmed, giving a clear shape to how the afternoon will unfold. The stage is listed as a 13km Tudor ITT, […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches its first clear general classification checkpoint on stage 4, with a 12.7km individual time trial from Belluno to Nevegal. After an opening weekend controlled by the sprinters and a more awkward stage 3 to Buja, the maglia rosa battle now moves into something much more precise: one rider, one […]
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Elisa Balsamo extended her grip on the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women with another sprint victory on stage 3, winning in Buja after a chaotic finale that repeatedly swung between GC attacks, late solo moves and a reduced bunch sprint. The Lidl-Trek rider, already in the maglia rosa after her stage 2 win in Caorle, came […]
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Elisa Balsamo turned a turbulent opening weekend at the Giro d’Italia Women into a perfect one for Lidl-Trek, winning stage 2 in Caorle while wearing the maglia rosa. The Italian had been promoted to the stage 1 victory after Lorena Wiebes was disqualified for a bike-weight infringement, then backed up that unexpected race lead with […]
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Elisa Balsamo will wear the first maglia rosa of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 after Lorena Wiebes was disqualified following stage 1 in Ravenna. Wiebes had crossed the line first after launching a long sprint from around 300 metres out, but the Team SD Worx-Protime rider was later removed from the results after her bike […]
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Giro d’Italia Women 2026 stage 2 gives the sprinters another major opportunity, but it is not quite as straightforward as the flat opener to Ravenna. The route from Roncade to Caorle on Sunday, 31st May covers 156km, with around 500 metres of climbing and one short, sharp obstacle placed early enough to create tension without […]
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Lorena Wiebes opened the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women with a commanding sprint victory in Ravenna, launching from around 300 metres out and holding off Elisa Balsamo and Lara Gillespie to take the first maglia rosa of the race. The SD Worx-Protime rider had to improvise in the final kilometre after her lead-out became stretched, but […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 will not be decided by the sprinters, but they should shape the opening rhythm of the race. With flat stages to Ravenna, Caorle and Brescello, plus a handful of more awkward days where a reduced sprint is still possible, the fast finishers have enough opportunities to make the maglia ciclamino […]
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Giro d’Italia Women remains one of the defining stage races in the sport because it asks for a fuller range of qualities than almost any other event on the women’s calendar. It is a race with history, weight and a route design that usually demands much more than one big climbing performance. Riders have to […]
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Lorena Wiebes made it two wins from two at the 2026 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas, sprinting to another clear victory on stage 2 after SD Worx-Protime again controlled the decisive phase of the race. The Dutch sprinter proved quickest in the final dash to Bodegas Viña Pedrosa, beating Elisa Balsamo and Ally Wollaston after a […]
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Veenendaal-Veenendaal 2026 takes place on Friday, 22nd May, and everything about the race points towards a fast finish. The Dutch one-day race is not usually a day for major climbing selections or long-range moves that survive through attrition alone. Instead, it is a race built around positioning, exposed roads, sprint trains and the ability to […]
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Vuelta a Burgos Feminas has become one of the most useful short stage races in women’s cycling because it packs several different demands into only four days. It sits in a valuable part of the calendar, after the spring Classics but before the longer summer stage-race block, which gives it a clear role. For some […]
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Franziska Koch took the biggest win of her career at Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026, beating Marianne Vos in a tense sprint inside the Roubaix velodrome after one of the most tactical finales of the spring. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot completed the podium after helping to shape the decisive move, while Lotte Kopecky was left to fight for the […]
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Paris-Roubaix Femmes has already become one of the defining races of the women’s spring, a Monument built not around climbs or repeated accelerations, but around pure endurance, power and nerve across the most unforgiving cobbled sectors in the sport. The route strips racing back to its rawest form. Positioning, bike handling, resilience and team depth […]
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Charlotte Kool finally turned a run of near misses at Scheldeprijs into victory on Wednesday 8th April, sprinting to win the 2026 women’s race in Schoten after a crash-marred finale split the bunch and left only a reduced group to contest the line. The Fenix-Premier Tech rider came through a hectic final kilometre to beat […]
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The Women’s Tour of Flanders remains the race that most clearly defines the cobbled spring. It is the Monument where power, positioning, resilience and tactical timing all have to align, because the route gives the peloton nowhere to hide for long. Unlike the flatter Belgian Classics, where team control can often smooth out the day […]
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Lorena Wiebes of SD Worx-Protime won In Flanders Fields Women 2026 on Sunday, taking a record third consecutive victory in the race after surviving a tense tactical finish from a five-rider lead group in Wevelgem. The Dutch champion was pushed all the way by Fleur Moors of Lidl-Trek, with Karlijn Swinkels of UAE Team ADQ […]
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The race formerly known as Gent-Wevelgem returns in 2026 under its new title, In Flanders Fields Women, but the core identity remains unmistakable. This is still one of the most tactically complex races of the spring, built on exposed roads, gravelly Plugstreets, and the repeated challenge of the Kemmelberg. It sits in that awkward space […]
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