Women's Cycling Weekly issue 46
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Hello! Welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly issue 46 🚴♀️
It’s been a pretty slow week out there and my motivation to write a long intro is equally waning. Since the last WCW, new British national champs were crowned in what was some exciting racing over on the soggy roads of Lincoln. I’ll be completely honest, I’ve not gotten around to watching much cross or track but that doesn’t mean that Tilda hasn’t put together the results from both for those who want to know…
Enjoy x
News 📰
Transfers
Arlenis Sierra: A.R. Monex ➡ Movistar
Demi de Jong: Bingoal Casino-Chevalmeire ➡ Parkhotel Valkenburg
Mieke Kröger: Team Coop-Hitec Products ➡ Rally Cycling
Evy Kuijpers: Liv Racing ➡ Rally Cycling
Quinty Schoens: Watersley R&D Cycling ➡ Parkhotel Valkenburg
Eva Buurman: Team TIBCO-SVB ➡ Liv Racing
Amber van der Hulst: Parkhotel Valkenburg ➡ Liv Racing
Flora Perkins: ➡ Drops-Le Col
Elsewhere
Due to injuries among the teams, Movistar and FDJ will not be riding the final round of the Women’s WorldTour at Ronde van Drenthe this weekend.
The UCI have confirmed that five teams have applied for Women’s WorldTour status in 2022. The five teams are: Rally Cycling, Jumbo-Visma, Uno-X, TIBCO-SVB and Roland Cogeas Edelweiss.
Kaitie Keough announced her sudden retirement from CX racing last week.
Mountain biking duo Sina Frei and Laura Stigger have won every stage of the women’s Cape Epic so far.
Results 🏆
Road
GP du Morbihan: 1. Chiara Consonni (VAL) 2. Charlotte Kool (NXG) 3. Silvia Zanardi (BPK)
Le Chrono des Nations (TT): 1. Marlen Reusser (ALE) 2. Anna Kiesenhofer 3. Mieke Kröger (HPU)
Drentse Acht van Westerveld (1.2): 1. Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (SDW) 2. Charlotte Kool (NXG) 3. Eleonora Gasparrini (VAL)
British national RR championships 🇬🇧
Elite: 🥇 Pfeiffer Georgi 🥈 Josie Nelson 🥉 Joss Lowden
U23: 🥇 Pfeiffer Georgi 🥈 Josie Nelson 🥉 Anna Shackley
Track
UCI Track World Championships, Roubaix 🌈
Scratch race: 🌈 Martina Fidanza (ITA) 🥈 Maike van der Duin (NED) 🥉 Jennifer Valente (USA)
Team sprint: 🌈 Germany 🥈 Russian Cycling Federation 🥉 Great Britain
Team pursuit: 🌈 Germany 🥈 Italy 🥉 Great Britain
Elimination race: 🌈 Letizia Paternoster (ITA) 🥈 Lotte Kopecky (BEL) 🥉 Jennifer Valente (USA)
CX
UCI Cyclocross World Cup Iowa (Rnd 3)
Marianne Vos
Denise Betsema
Blanka Vas
World Cup overall standings:
Marianne Vos (102 pts)
Lucinda Brand (92 pts)
Denise Betsema (85 pts)
Upcoming Races 📆
Road
23rd October: Ronde van Drenthe (WWT) | Start list here
Track
20th-24th October: UCI Track World Championships, Roubaix 🌈
CX
23rd October: Superprestige Ruddervoorde (Rnd 2)
24th October: UCI Cyclocross World Cup Zonhoven (Rnd 4)
Read 🗞️
A bit more detail on the new WWT applicants Roland Cogeas Edelweiss.
Five key climbs in the Tour de France Femmes.
Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio on the route and signifcance of the TDFF.
Demi Vollering says she’s already ridden the biggest TDFF climbs.
Natalie van Gogh reflects on her career after retiring earlier this month.
How the pandemic got women and girls in Kashmir out on their bikes.
Imogen Cotter’s journey to the top.
Listen 🎧
On Freewheeling this week we discussed the Tour de France Femmes route and Abby and I had an actual difference of opinion…
That’s all 👋
Thanks for reading Women’s Cycling Weekly, I hope you have had a lovely weekend.
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Until next time,
Amy x