Women's Cycling Weekly issue 39
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Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 39 🚴♀️
Alright, I hate to cop out here but I really don’t have much time for this newsletter at the moment — collating news, results, racing and everything takes a lot of time which I just don’t have. So, until I can get some help (it’s imminent) I will be making this a bi-weekly situation.
This one is going to be quite long, too, because a lot has been happening with the Paralympic Games and loads of other races going on as well as transfers and whatnot. Let’s get to it.
News 📰
Transfers:
Joss Lowden: Drops-Le Col s/b Tempur ➡️ Uno-x
Jess Roberts: Team BikeExchange ➡️ Team Coop-Hitec Products
Lucy Kennedy will retire at the end of the season.
Elsewhere:
Dame Sarah Storey made history by claiming her 15th Paralympic gold medal in Tokyo.
Kirsten Wild rode her last ever road race on Friday at the Simac Ladies Tour and
the whole of Ceratizit-WNT were forced to pull out of the Simac Ladies Tour after a Covid positive.
Anna van der Breggen made her directing debut at the Simac Ladies Tour, and also had a go at this:
Results 🏆
Simac Ladies Tour 2.WWT:
Final GC podium: 🥇 Chantal van den Broek-Blaak, 🥈 Marlen Reusser, (0:17) 🥉 Ellen van Dijk (0:30).
Prologue - Marianne Vos, Ellen van Dijk, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig. Highlights.
Stage 1 - Alison Jackson, Maëlle Grossetête, Lorena Wiebes. Highlights.
Stage 2 (ITT) - Marlen Reusser, Ellen van Dijk, Chantal van den Broek-Blaak. Highlights.
Stage 3 - Lonneke Uneken, Susanne Andersen, Pffeifer Georgi. Highlights.
Stage 4 - Marianne Vos, Kasia Niewiadoma, Chantal van den Broek-Blaak. Highlights.
Stage 5 - Marianne Vos, Alice Barnes, Amy Pieters.
MTB World Championships:
XCO Elite: 🥇 🌈Evie Richards 🇬🇧 🥈Anne Terpstra 🇳🇱🥉Sina Frei 🇨🇭
(First ever) XCC: 🥇 🌈Sina Frei 🇨🇭 🥈 Evie Richards 🇬🇧 🥉 Pauline Ferrand-Prevot 🇫🇷. Highlights here.
XCO U23: 🥇🌈Mona Mitterwallner 🇦🇹🥈Laura Stigger 🇦🇹🥉Caroline Bohé 🇩🇰
XCO Junior: 🥇🌈Line Burquier 🇫🇷 🥈Olivia Onesti 🇫🇷 🥉Sara Cortinovis 🇮🇹
Joe Martin Stage Race 2.2
Stage 1 - Skylar Schneider, Heidi Franz, Veronica Ewers.
Stage 2 - Emma Langley, Skylar Schneider, Veronica Ewers.
Stage 3 (ITT) - Emma Langley, Veronica Ewers, Clara Honsinger.
Stage 4 - TBD
Premondiale Giro Toscana Int. Femminile - Memorial Michela Fanini 2.2
GC: Arlenis Sierra, Rasa Leleivytė, Debora Silvestri.
Prologue - Arlenis Sierra, Martina Alzini, Karolina Kumiega.
Stage 1 - Arlenis Sierra, Rasa Leleivytė, Debora Silvestri.
Stage 2 - Giorgia Bariani, Rasa Leleivytė, Karolina Kumiega
Paralympics:
(Thanks to the ledge that is Tilda Price who put these results together — I’ve left her notes in, too because they’re good for context)
C1-3 3000m IP - 1. Paige Greco (AUS) 2. Wang Xiaomei (CHN) 3. Denise Schindler (GER)
C4 3000m IP - 1. Emily Petricola (AUS) 2. Shawn Morelli (USA) 3. Keely Shaw (CAN)
C5 3000m IP - 1. Dame Sarah Storey (GBR) 2. Crystal Lane-Wright (GBR) 3. Marie Patouillet (FRA)
This is the 4th consecutive IP gold for Storey, 15th gold medal (two golds away from being GB’s most decorated Paralympian and already is most decorated female - has two events left at this Games)
B 1000m time trial - 1. Larissa Klaassen (pilot: Imke Brommer) (NED) 2. Aileen McGlynn OBE (pilot: Helen Scott) (GBR) 3. Griet Hoet (pilot: Anneleen Monsieur) (BEL)
C1-3 500m time trial - 1. Amanda Reid (AUS) 2. Alyda Norbruis (NED) 3. Qian Wangwei (CHN)
C4-5 500m time trial - 1. Kadeena Cox (GBR) 2. Kate O’Brien (CAN) 3. Caroline Groot (NED)
Cox defends medal from Rio, good start to second Paras as a two-sport athlete
First Paras for O’Brien - she was an able-bodied Olympian in Rio, became a C4 athlete after a near fatal bicycle accident in 2017 (also nearly went to Sochi as a bobsledder)
B 3000m individual pursuit - 1. Lora Fachie (pilot: Corrine Hall) (GBR) 2. Katie-George Dunlevy (pilot: Eve McCrystal) (IRE) 3. Sophie Unwin (pilot: Jenny Holl) (GBR)
Kadeena Cox GBR also took a second cycling gold medal (and WR) as part of the mixed C1-5 750m team sprint (with Jaco van Gass and Jody Cundy - other medallists were all-male teams)
Upcoming Races 📅
Road:
GP de Plouay 1.WWT - Tomorrow, Monday 30th August. Broadcast from 14:00 CEST.
Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta 2.WWT - Thursday 2nd - Sunday 5th September. Broadcast daily from 13:00 CEST.
Grote prijs Beerens 1.2 - 5th September.
The 7-day Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche 2.1 starts on the 8th September.
European Continental Championships start with the ITT on the 9th and the road race on the 11th.
Paralympics Road:
Tuesday 31st August - C1-3, H1-3, C4, H4-4, C-5, T1-2, and B time trials.
Wednesday 1st September - H5, H1-4 road races.
Tuesday 2nd September - C4-5, T1-2 road races and mixed H1-5 team relay.
Friday 3rd September - C1-3, and B road races.
Full schedule here.
MTB:
Next weekend, 4th - 5th September is the penultimate MTB World Cup of the season in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Races will be live on Red Bull TV. Schedule here.
Read 🗞️
Dame Sarah Storey on the struggle of being apart from family in Tokyo.
‘Plan, prepare, execute’ — a guide to sprinting from some fast women.
Some analysis on the crashfest that was stage three of Simac.
How Zwift’s sponsorship affects the upcoming Tour de France Femmes.
What The Cyclists’ Alliance’s Mentorship Programme means in riders’ own words.
It’s a month away: a Road World Champs preview.
Watch 📺
The return of The Bunnyhop! With guests Hayley Simmonds and Rose Manley, featuring Annemiek van Vleuten, Leah Dixon, Hannah Dines and discussions about the Ladies Tour of Norway, Paralympics, and the World Championships. Get it in front of your face asap!
Listen 🎧
This week on Freewheeling Abby was flying solo talking to her former teammate and two-time Paralympic cyclist Greta Neimanas to learn about the upcoming Paralympic Games.
The August edition of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is out, featuring an in-depth interview with Olympic Champion Anna Kiesenhofer.
And the Rouleur Conversations Podcast featuring Emma Pooley.
That’s all 👋
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See you in two weeks!
Amy x