The women’s peloton travelled to the United States for the eighth round of the 2016 UCI Women’s WorldTour. The Amgen Tour of California was the second stage race of the series and the first event hosted in North America.
Megan Guarnier (Boels Dolmans Cycling Team) became the first American to win a UCI Women’s WorldTour event. The American Champion won the opening stage of the four-day race and remained in the yellow leader’s jersey until the last day.
Twenty16 RideBiker took a surprise victory in the stage two team time trial over Boels-Dolmans and UnitedHealthcare. Marianne Vos (Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team) won a reduced bunch sprint in Santa Rosa on stage three while Kirsten Wild (Hitec Products) outsprinted the peloton on stage four in Sacramento.
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Guarnier’s success in California catapults her to the top of the UCI Women’s WorldTour rankings with 504 points in front of Emma Johansson (Wiggle High5) with 398 points. UCI World Champion Lizzie Armitstead, who did not race the Amgen Tour of California, drops to third overall with 368 points. There is no change in the UCI Women's WorldTour youth ranking.
After eight rounds of racing, the UCI Women’s WorldTour has covered 1352.4 kilometres.
Philadelphia International Cycling Classic (USA) - 05.06.2016
Philadelphia International Cycling Classic 2015 :
1. Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) 2. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA) 3. Alena Amialiusik (BLR)
The team time trial is a collective race against the clock.
Usually held as part of stage races, they may also be raced as stand-alone events such as the 14th round of the UCI Women’s WorldTour, the Crescent Women’s Vargarda TTT.
Typically, teams of six riders start together, and the clock stops when the fourth rider crosses the line. Team members take turns in the lead before dropping back to recover.
The team time trial was re-introduced into the UCI Road World Championships in 2012, and has been won each year since then by CANYON//SRAM (previously Velocio-SRAM and Specialized-lululemon)
Marianne Vos (Rabo Liv Women Cycling) has won two Olympic titles on the track and road, and is 12-time UCI World Champion across three disciplines (road, cyclo-cross, track). Sidelined for nearly a year with injury, she rejoined the peloton in March and will be part of the four-rider squad that will represent the Netherlands in the Rio 2016 road race.
UCI World Champion, road race (2006, 2012, 2013) UCI World Champion, track (points race 2008, scratch 2011) UCI World Champion, cyclo-cross (2006, 2009-2014) Olympic Champion, road (2012) Olympic Champion, points race (2008) European Champion, road race (2006, 2007) European Champion, cyclo-cross (2005, 2009)
1st Giro d'Italia Femminile, overall (2011-2012, 2014) 1st 19 stages of Giro d'Italia Femminile (2010-2014) 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013) 1st Aviva Women’s Tour (2014) 1st La Course by Le Tour de France (2014) 1st Open de Suède Vargarda (2009, 2013) 1st GP de Plouay-Bretagne (2012-2013) 1st Ronde van Drenthe (2011-2013) 1st Elsy Jacobs Festival (2011-2013) 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio (2009-2010, 2012)
On May 23, we are 75 days from the Olympic Games in Rio.
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