Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race)

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Liège–Bastogne–Liège (Women)
La Redoute.jpg
La Redoute
Race details
DateLate April
RegionWallonia, Belgium
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI Women's World Tour (since 2017)
TypeOne-day race
OrganiserASO
Web sitewww.liege-bastogne-liege-femmes.be/en Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition2017 (2017)
Editions5 (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 Netherlands Anna van der Breggen
Boels–Dolmans
United Kingdom Lizzie Deignan
Boels–Dolmans
Poland Katarzyna Niewiadoma
WM3 Pro Cycling
2018 Netherlands Anna van der Breggen
Boels–Dolmans
Australia Amanda Spratt
Mitchelton-Scott
Netherlands Annemiek van Vleuten
Mitchelton-Scott
2019 Netherlands Annemiek van Vleuten
Mitchelton–Scott
Netherlands Floortje Mackaij
Team Sunweb
Netherlands Demi Vollering
Parkhotel Valkenburg
2020 United Kingdom Lizzie Deignan
Trek-Segafredo
Australia Grace Brown
Mitchelton-Scott
Netherlands Ellen Van Dijk
Trek-Segafredo
2021 Netherlands Demi Vollering
SD Worx
Netherlands Annemiek van Vleuten
Movistar Team
Italy Elisa Longo Borghini
Trek–Segafredo

Wins per country[]

Wins Country
4  Netherlands
1  United Kingdom

References[]

  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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