The Tour de Suisse Women 2026 reaches its final and hardest day on Sunday, 21st June, with stage 5 in Villars-sur-Ollon set to decide whether Marlen Reusser can convert her Aarburg time-trial win into overall victory. After four very different stages, the race now ends with the one format that can still put the yellow […]
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Marlen Reusser won stage 4 of the 2026 Tour de Suisse Women in Aarburg, delivering the expected time-trial performance to take both the stage victory and the yellow jersey before the final day. The Movistar rider completed the 23.7-kilometre course in 29:36, beating Zoe Bäckstedt by 11 seconds and putting more than a minute into […]
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Zoe Bäckstedt won stage 3 of the 2026 Tour de Suisse Women with a commanding sprint victory in Bad Ragaz, finishing off a strong Canyon SRAM lead-out after a chaotic finale. The British rider launched from distance in the final straight and won by several bike lengths, beating Lily Williams of Human Powered Health and […]
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The Tour de Suisse Women 2026 reaches Bad Ragaz on Friday, 19th June, with the race already shaped by two selective opening days and Elisa Longo Borghini’s stage 2 victory in Locarno. After Femke de Vries won from the breakaway on stage 1 and Longo Borghini struck on stage 2, stage 3 gives the peloton […]
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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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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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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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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 2026 was won by Demi Vollering after the FDJ United-SUEZ rider launched early on the final ascent of the Mur de Huy and held off a fast-finishing Puck Pieterse in a tense uphill finale. Rather than waiting for the final straight, Vollering attacked on the steep curves of the Mur and […]
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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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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 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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Every year, the white roads of Tuscany do something that tarmac cannot. They expose riders who can manage discomfort and reward those who can impose it. The gravel sectors between Siena and the Crete Senesi have a way of compressing a race, forcing errors in positioning, punishing anyone who arrives at a sector out of […]
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The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana has steadily established itself as one of the most important early-season stage races for general classification riders outside the Women’s WorldTour. What began life as a modest 2.2 event has evolved into a fixture that reliably attracts a deep, high-quality start list and delivers meaningful racing across varied terrain. Its promotion […]
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