The Tour de Suisse Women 2026 has the look of a compact but revealing WorldTour stage race, with five days that should reward complete riders rather than pure climbers alone. There is no long, gradual build-up. The race starts on hilly ground in Sondrio, moves through Locarno and Bad Ragaz, adds a 23.8km individual time […]
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Federica Venturelli took victory at the 2026 Dwars door de Westhoek after beating Lonneke Uneken and Marta Lach in a reduced sprint from the day’s decisive breakaway. The UAE Team ADQ rider launched out of the final sequence of moves, came past the SD Worx-Protime presence in the sprint, and threw her bike across the […]
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Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 2026 gave the race exactly the kind of edition it needed. It had dominant sprinting, tactical uncertainty, a late mountain decision, a new Women’s WorldTour stage-race winner and a final podium that said plenty about the changing depth of the women’s peloton. Yara Kastelijn won the overall title after taking the […]
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Mischa Bredewold gave SD Worx-Protime another victory at the 2026 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas, winning stage 3 in Medina de Pomar after bridging across to Mireia Benito in the final kilometres and then beating the AG Insurance-Soudal rider in a two-up sprint. Lorena Wiebes finished third from the chasing group, keeping the overall race lead […]
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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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Mischa Bredewold won Itzulia Women 2026 after surviving a tense final stage around Donostia, sealing the overall title for Team SD Worx-Protime after three days of aggressive racing in the Basque Country. The Dutch rider had led since winning the opening stage in Zarautz, but she still had to fight for the jersey on the […]
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Dominika Wlodarczyk won stage 3 of Itzulia Women 2026, taking her second straight victory after another sharp and intelligent ride on the final day into San Sebastián. The UAE Team ADQ rider proved fastest from a reduced front group, beating Évita Muzic and Lauren Dickson at the end of 113.1km of tense racing, while Mischa […]
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Itzulia Women 2026 reaches its final day with the general classification still close enough to invite attacks, but now with a different level of pressure around the yellow jersey. Dominika Wlodarczyk’s stage 2 victory in Amorebieta-Etxano changed the race’s shape, not only because it gave UAE Team ADQ a major WorldTour win, but because it […]
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Dominika Wlodarczyk won stage 2 of Itzulia Women 2026, taking the biggest victory of her career after a perfectly timed late move into Amorebieta-Etxano. The UAE Team ADQ rider beat Shirin van Anrooij at the line, with race leader Mischa Bredewold charging back for third after the yellow jersey group came within metres of making […]
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Stage 1 gave Itzulia Women 2026 exactly the sort of opening day the race usually threatens to produce: selective, tense and hard to control. Mischa Bredewold took the win in Zarautz from a reduced five-rider sprint, beating Yara Kastelijn and Riejanne Markus after a rain-soaked day that immediately separated the strongest from the merely well-placed. […]
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Mischa Bredewold won the opening stage of Itzulia Women 2026, taking victory from a reduced five-rider sprint in Zarautz after a hard, rain-soaked day of climbing and attrition. The SD Worx-Protime rider beat Yara Kastelijn and Riejanne Markus at the end of 121.3km of demanding racing to become the first leader of this year’s race. […]
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Itzulia Women 2026 begins on Friday, 15th May, with a stage that immediately sets the tone for the race. There is no gentle opening day, no flat procession, and no obvious sprint stage for the peloton to settle into the rhythm of the Basque Country. Instead, stage 1 starts and finishes in Zarautz, covers 121.3km, […]
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Itzulia Women has quickly built one of the clearest identities in the Women’s WorldTour because it does not need a long route to create a hard race. In just three days, it consistently delivers the kind of repeated climbing, technical roads and aggressive pacing that can turn a compact stage race into a demanding test […]
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La Vuelta Femenina 2026 did more than produce a surprise winner. It changed the shape of the women’s season. Paula Blasi’s overall victory on the Angliru was not a small upset built from opportunism or circumstance. It was a proper Grand Tour win, taken on the hardest climb of the race, against Anna van der […]
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Anna van der Breggen won stage 6 of La Vuelta Femenina 2026 with a measured, powerful ride on the savage slopes of Les Praeres, taking control on the final climb and finishing 8 seconds clear of Paula Blasi after the first real GC showdown of the race. Marion Bunel rode strongly to take third, with […]
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La Vuelta Femenina 2026 reaches its first true summit finish on Friday, 8th May with Stage 6 from Gijón/Xixón to Les Praeres. Nava. After five days shaped by sprints, bonus seconds, late attacks and crashes, this is where the race changes completely. The route is only 106.5km, but the final climb is severe enough to […]
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Mischa Bredewold won stage 5 of La Vuelta Femenina 2026 in Astorga, giving SD Worx-Protime a second straight one-two after beating team leader Lotte Kopecky in a wet and crash-hit finish. Letizia Paternoster took third after fighting back from an earlier crash, while the final run-in split the bunch and left riders finishing in fragments […]
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La Vuelta Femenina has quickly become one of the most important stage races in women’s cycling because it offers something slightly different from the Giro d’Italia Women and the Tour de France Femmes. The Spanish Grand Tour is shorter, more compressed and often more immediate in how it asks questions of the field. There is […]
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Demi Vollering won Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2026 with a long solo attack, blowing the race apart on La Redoute before extending her advantage all the way to the finish in Liège. The FDJ United-SUEZ rider crossed the line 1 minute 28 seconds clear after a ride built on precise timing and sustained climbing strength, with Puck […]
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Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes stands as the deepest endurance test of the women’s Ardennes week, the race where the repeated climbing of Amstel Gold Race Women and the explosive finality of La Flèche Wallonne Femmes are stretched into something more attritional and more complete. This is the women’s Monument of the Ardennes, a race that asks for […]
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La Flèche Wallonne Femmes is one of the clearest tests in the women’s spring calendar because the race never hides what it is building towards. Everything points back to the Mur de Huy, the steep, exposed and brutally familiar climb that gives the race its identity. It is a one-day race with a simple headline […]
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Amstel Gold Race Women opens the Ardennes week with a race identity that sits neatly between the cobbled Classics and the steeper Ardennes tests still to come. It is not a pure climbing race in the same way as La Flèche Wallonne Femmes, nor does it usually become as attritional as Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes, but its […]
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Brabantse Pijl Women 2026 did exactly what this race often does. It sat between the cobbled Classics and the Ardennes, but refused to behave like a quiet transition race. Célia Gery took the biggest win of her young career in Overijse, sprinting past Mischa Bredewold and Silvia Persico after Anna van der Breggen and Loes […]
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Célia Gery took the biggest one-day win of her career at Brabantse Pijl Women 2026, producing a sharply judged sprint in Overijse to beat Mischa Bredewold and Silvia Persico after a tense and tactical finale. It was the fifth win of the 19-year-old French rider’s career, and another sign that FDJ United-SUEZ now have far […]
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Brabantse Pijl Women has grown into one of the most useful markers of the women’s spring, even without the formal weight of Women’s WorldTour status. Held in Belgium between Paris-Roubaix Femmes and the Ardennes block, it occupies a very specific place on the calendar. It is the race where the tone often changes, moving away […]
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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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Dwars door Vlaanderen Women occupies a particularly important place in the spring calendar. Positioned just days before the Tour of Flanders, it is often treated as both a major objective in its own right and a final high-level rehearsal for the riders targeting the biggest cobbled Monument of the season. That dual role gives the […]
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Nokere Koerse has carved out a distinctive place in the women’s spring calendar, offering a race that sits somewhere between a pure sprint and a selective cobbled test. While it lacks the repeated climbs of the major Flemish monuments, it compensates with exposed roads, technical positioning, and a finale that consistently delivers a high-speed, uphill […]
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Mischa Bredewold’s name will appear on the ballot in Utrecht at the local elections on 18 March, but that does not mean the SD Worx-ProTime rider is about to swap the peloton for the council chamber. The 25-year-old has been placed on the list for Student en Starter as a lijstduwer, taking the symbolic 43rd […]
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The Trofeo Alfredo Binda has long held a unique position on the Women’s WorldTour calendar. As one of the oldest races in the women’s peloton and the first major Italian one-day test of the spring, it consistently delivers racing that rewards both climbing punch and tactical awareness. Held around Cittiglio in Lombardy, the event bridges […]
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