Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race)

Liège–Bastogne–Liège (Women)
	La Redoute
Race details
Date	Late April
Region	Wallonia, Belgium
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Women's World Tour (since 2017)
Type	One-day race
Organiser	ASO
Web site	www.liege-bastogne-liege-femmes.be/en
History
First edition	2017
Editions	5 (as of 2021)
First winner	Anna van der Breggen (NED)
Most wins	Anna van der Breggen (NED) ; (2 wins)
Most recent	Demi Vollering (NED)

The Women's Liège–Bastogne–Liège (French: Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes) is the women's event of Liège–Bastogne–Liège, an annual road bicycle racing event in Wallonia, Belgium, held in late April. The inaugural race, won by Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen, was run on 23 April 2017.^[1]

With the reboot of the Amstel Gold Race for Women and the creation of a women's Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2017, the women's season has the same trio of Ardennes classics as the men's. Both races are held on Sundays mid-April, in addition to La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, which has been on the women's calendar since 1998.^[2]

Route[]

The inaugural event started in Bastogne and finished in Liège.

At 135.5 km, the race is approximately half the distance of the men's event. Hence, it doesn't start in Liège but in Bastogne, from where it heads north past Liège to finish in Ans. The route features four categorized climbs: the , Côte de La Redoute, and Côte de Saint-Nicolas. The top of the last climb of Saint-Nicolas comes at 5.5 km from the finish.^[3]

Winners[]

Year	1st	2nd	3rd
2017	Anna van der Breggen Boels–Dolmans	Lizzie Deignan Boels–Dolmans	Katarzyna Niewiadoma WM3 Pro Cycling
2018	Anna van der Breggen Boels–Dolmans	Amanda Spratt Mitchelton-Scott	Annemiek van Vleuten Mitchelton-Scott
2019	Annemiek van Vleuten Mitchelton–Scott	Floortje Mackaij Team Sunweb	Demi Vollering Parkhotel Valkenburg
2020	Lizzie Deignan Trek-Segafredo	Grace Brown Mitchelton-Scott	Ellen Van Dijk Trek-Segafredo
2021	Demi Vollering SD Worx	Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team	Elisa Longo Borghini Trek–Segafredo

Wins per country[]

Wins	Country
4	Netherlands
1	United Kingdom

References[]

^ "Van der Breggen wins the first ever Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes". cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
^ "Women's teams gear up for historic first Ardennes triple New Amstel Gold and Liège-Bastogne-Liège races bring fresh spark to the Classics". Cyclingnews. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
^ "A.S.O. a dévoilé aujourd'hui les parcours de La Flèche Wallonne et de Liège-Bastogne-Liège version féminine, Van Der Breggen se rapproche de Marianne Vos". velo101.com (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2018.

External links[]

Official website

[1] "Van der Breggen wins the first ever Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes". cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

[2] "Women's teams gear up for historic first Ardennes triple New Amstel Gold and Liège-Bastogne-Liège races bring fresh spark to the Classics". Cyclingnews. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 14 April 2018.

[3] "A.S.O. a dévoilé aujourd'hui les parcours de La Flèche Wallonne et de Liège-Bastogne-Liège version féminine, Van Der Breggen se rapproche de Marianne Vos". velo101.com (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2018.

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