One more race day

+ Track Worlds is underway and the female trailblazers at Red Bull Rampage

Hello lovely subscribers and welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly: Your weekly round-up of all things news, content, racing and more from the world of women’s cycling.

I am half way through travelling from the UK to New Zealand (which, thanks to some complications, became even more protracted than it would usually be — we’re over 30 hours in and only just half way 🤪) so apologies that this newsletter is reaching you a bit later than usual.

There’s just one day left of the 2024 Women’s WorldTour season with the Tour of Guangxi on Sunday, but there’s still plenty of racing going on at the moment between the Track World Championships and the early stages of the cyclocross season. Plus, women cyclists made history last weekend with the first ever women’s Red Bull Rampage Freeride event (absolutely nuts!)

Enjoy the newsletter,

Amy x

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News 📰

• After leaving AG Insurance-Soudal earlier this year, NXTG Racing founder and manager Natascha Knaven-den Ouden is back with new U17 and U19 teams for 2025, reviving the NXTG name and their focus on rider development.

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Read 🗞️

• 'I don't want to stop riding and racing' - Joss Lowden on the tough decision to retire - Cycling Weekly

• How the Women's WorldTour teams performed in 2024 - Rouleur

• Could Lorena Wiebes race track at the LA Olympics? 'It's somewhere on my mind’ - Cycling Weekly

• Female Mountain Bikers Backflip Their Way to Equality - New York Times

• 'We came out swinging' - Great Britain make sensational catch to win team pursuit gold at World Championships - Cycling Weekly

• 'Everything is in the brain' - Cédrine Kerbaol on daredevil descending, her breakthrough sean and yellow jersey dreams - Rouleur  

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Watch 📺

Lauretta Hanson is breaking the taboo around saddle health

 Vali Höll is back documenting the last two rounds of the World Cup 

Women of Freeride: raising the bar.

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Listen 🎧

The Wheel Talk team are chatting about the Simac Ladies Tour and transfer season

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Results 🏆

Road

Simac Ladies Tour (2.WWT)

Stage 5: Lorena Wiebes (SDW)

Stage 6: Lotte Kopecky (SDW)

GC:

1. Lotte Kopecky (SDW)

2. Franziska Koch (DFP)

3. Zoe Backstedt (CSR)

Chrono des Nations (1.1)

1. Grace Brown (FST)

2. Vittoria Guazzini (FST)

3. Anna Kiesenhofer 🇦🇹

Tour of Chongming Island (2.WWT)

Stage 1: Mylène de Zoete (WNT)

Stage 2: Marta Lach (WNT)

Stage 3: Marta Lach (WNT)

GC:

1. Italy Lach (WNT)

2. Mylène de Zoete (WNT)

3. Scarlett Souren (VWT)

Track

🌈 UCI Track World Championships: Ballerup, Denmark 🇩🇰

Team Sprint: 🥇 Great Britain 🇬🇧 🥈 Netherlands 🇳🇱 🥉 Australia 🇦🇺

Scratch Race: 🥇 Lorena Wiebes 🇳🇱 🥈 Jennifer Valente 🇺🇸 🥉 Ally Wollaston 🇳🇿

Team Pursuit: 🥇 Great Britain 🇬🇧 🥈 Germany 🇩🇪 🥉 Italy 🇮🇹

Elimination: 🥇 Ally Wollaston 🇳🇿 🥈 Lotte Kopecky 🇧🇪 🥉 Jennifer Valente 🇺🇸

Individual Sprint: 🥇Emma Finucane 🇬🇧🥈Hetty van de Wouw 🇳🇱 🥉 Mina Sato 🇯🇵

Omnium: 🥇Ally Wollaston 🇳🇿 🥈Jess Roberts 🇬🇧🥉Anita Yvonne Stenberg 🇳🇴

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Upcoming races 📆  

Road

Sunday 20th October: Tour of Guangxi (1.WWT)

How to watch:

• Live on Discovery+ from 05:15 CEST.

Startlist here.

Track

🌈 UCI Track World Championships: Ballerup, Denmark 🇩🇰

Saturday 19th October: Time Trial, Individual Pursuit and Madison

How to watch:

• Live on Discovery+ from 18:20 CEST.

Sunday 20th October: Keirin and Points Race

How to watch:

• Live on Discovery+ from 13:20 CEST.

CX

Sunday 20th October: Superprestige #1: Ruddervoorde

How to watch:

Live on Discovery+ from 13:35 CEST.

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