2016 Strade Bianche Women
| 2016 UCI Women's World Tour, race 1 of 17 | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | 5 March 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 121 km (75 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3h 30' 13" | ||||||||||||
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The second edition of the women's Strade Bianche was held on 5 March 2016, in Tuscany, Italy. British world champion Lizzie Armitstead won the race, in bad weather, ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Emma Johansson.[1]
The women's Strade Bianche served as the first event of the inaugural UCI Women's World Tour, the highest level of professional women's cycling.[2][3] The race is organized on the same day as the men's event, at a shorter distance, but on much of the same roads.[3]
Route
The Strade Bianche is a one day cycling race starting in and finishing in Siena,[3] notorious for its long sections of white gravel roads (sterrati or strade bianche in Italian). The course runs over hilly terrain in the province of Siena, for a total of 121 km, featuring seven sectors and 22.4 km of dirt roads.[3][4] Six sectors were in common with the men's route.[5] The race finished on Siena's Piazza del Campo, after a narrow ascent on the roughly-paved Via Santa Caterina in the heart of the medieval city.
Results
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
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| 1 | Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) | Boels–Dolmans | 3h 30' 13" |
| 2 | Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL) | Rabobank-Liv Woman Cycling Team | + 3" |
| 3 | Emma Johansson (SWE) | Wiggle High5 | + 13" |
| 4 | Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA) | Wiggle High5 | + 1' 04" |
| 5 | Anna van der Breggen (NED) | Rabobank-Liv Woman Cycling Team | + 1' 07" |
| 6 | Megan Guarnier (USA) | Boels–Dolmans | + 1' 07" |
| 7 | Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) | Orica–AIS | + 1' 13" |
| 8 | Claudia Lichtenberg (GER) | Lotto–Soudal Ladies | + 1' 17" |
| 9 | Lauren Kitchen (AUS) | Team Hitec Products | + 1' 17" |
| 10 | Leah Kirchmann (CAN) | Team Liv–Plantur | + 1' 21" |
See also
References
- ^ Braverman, Jessi. "Lizzie Armitstead wins Strade Bianche Women". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
- ^ Weislo, Laura. "UCI announces 2016 Women's World Tour". Cycling News. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Siena start for Strade Bianche in 2016. Women's WorldTour to start on dirt roads". Cycling News. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Strade Bianche 2016, svelato il percorso [altimetria e planimetria]". cyclingpro.net (in Italian). Archived from the original on 13 November 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "Strade Bianche, da Siena a Siena lo spettacolo è triplo". Gazzetta.it (in Italian). RCS Media Group. Retrieved 19 February 2016.