2016 Strade Bianche Women
| 2016 UCI Women's World Tour, race 1 of 17 | |||
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| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 5 March 2016 | ||
| Distance | 121 km (75.19 mi) | ||
| Winning time | 3h 30' 13" | ||
| Results | |||
| Winner |  Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) |
(Boels–Dolmans) | |
| Second |  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL) |
(Rabo–Liv) | |
| Third |  Emma Johansson (SWE) |
(Wiggle High5) | |
 2016 UCI Women's World Tour | ||||
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| Races | ||||
| Round 1 | Strade Bianche | |||
| Round 2 | Ronde van Drenthe | |||
| Round 3 | Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio | |||
| Round 4 | Gent–Wevelgem | |||
| Round 5 | Tour of Flanders | |||
| Round 6 | La Flèche Wallonne | |||
| Round 7 | Tour of Chongming Island | |||
| Round 8 | Amgen Tour of California | |||
| Round 9 | The Philadelphia Cycling Classic | |||
| Round 10 | Aviva Women's Tour | |||
| Round 11 | Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile | |||
| Round 12 | La Course by Le Tour de France | |||
| Round 13 | Prudential RideLondon Grand Prix | |||
| Round 14 | Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda TTT | |||
| Round 15 | Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda | |||
| Round 16 | GP de Plouay-Bretagne | |||
| Round 17 | Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta | |||
| Teams and riders | ||||
| 2016 UCI Women's Teams and riders | ||||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) |
Boels–Dolmans | 3h 30' 13" |
| 2 | Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL) |
Rabo–Liv | + 3" |
| 3 | Emma Johansson (SWE) |
Wiggle High5 | + 13" |
| 4 |  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA) |
Wiggle High5 | + 1' 04" |
| 5 |  Anna van der Breggen (NED) |
Rabo–Liv | + 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
- ↑ "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.
- 1 2 3 4 "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). 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.