EPZ Omloop van Borsele 2013

20.04.2013 Official site
Netherlands, One-day Road Race, 120km
UCI 1.2

Large-scale map - click to enlarge

The Omloop van Borsele is the final event in one of those wonderful cycling festivals that take place in the Netherlands and Belgium - there is also a three-stage race for Junior women (time trial stage on Friday, stages 2 and 3 on Saturday and Sunday), a time trial for Elite women on Friday, time trials for Junior men and Promises on Saturday and a Junior men's race on Sunday.

Zeeland, in the far south of the Netherlands, consists largely of islands, many of them reclaimed from the sea; many points lie below sea level and the region is extremely flat. The parcours is also famous for the narrowness of the roads with at approximately half of the route being only wide enough for a single car which, combined with the winds that roar in from the North Sea, tends to keep the pack together and prevent the use of clever tactics - it's no surprise, then, that the Omloop has been dominated by sprinters with Kirsten Wild (racing with Argos-Shimano this year; 114) holding the record of four victories, won consecutively between 2008 and 2011.

The Race

With 2012 winner Ellen van Dijk away due to illness, Wild was a popular favourite this year - a string of sprint victories so far this season has proved that she has lost none of her skill. However, a crash shortly after the race got underway  in 's-Heerenhoek caused her to lose significant time; Orica-AIS rider Sungeun Gu also fell and had to leave the race (her team mates Annette Edmondsen and Gracie Elvin went down in the same spot later on; fortunately none received serious injury). The route, passing through typically flat Dutch countryside that leaves the riders at the mercy of the powerful winds that blow in off the North Sea at this time of year, is 24.311km from start to finish; riders needed to complete five laps to finish.


Kuipersdijk is wide, flat and smooth and encouraged a fast start as the riders headed south out of town, but there were plenty of technical sections to keep the riders paying attention: at Westeindsedijk, only 3km from the start, the road narrowed on a very tight turn and many of the riders found themselves suddenly at the back of the peloton as it poured itself into the limited space. A little further on on the Bandijk road, a nasty pavé-like rumblestrip running either side of the asphalt slowed down those riders who got forced onto it as they rounded the corner. A right followed immediately after, taking the race onto the Hooglandesdijk (with more rough verges) heading south-east again for 1.6km and a left onto Weldijk, soon passing through the tiny village Koekoek ("Cuckoo"), by which time a combination of parcours and the expected strong wind had split the pack into several smaller groups.

Kruiningenpolderweg is almost perfectly straight, another fast section where pressure could be put on rivals; it saw its fair share of tactical moves as the riders used it to test one another's strength. A few kilometres beyond Nisse, near a small lake called Schouwersweel on the left, the riders turned right and continued west on Nieuwekamerseweg, a narrower road that becomes Oudekamersedijk until reaching a fork where they kept right to follow Oude Zandijk north for 1.8km until arriving at a tight left onto Boomdijk, marking a point 20.121km from the start. Boomdijk is very narrow; with only 4km from here to the finish on the last lap, it left little room for chasers to get out of the peloton to bring back escapees - with her experienced eye, Vera Koedooder of the Sengers team knew it was the place to launch an attack and did so in the third lap with some 50km to go. With her went Loes Gunnewijk (Orica-AIS), Nina Kessler (Boels-Dolmans), Okzana Kozonchuk (RusVelo), Lucinda Brand (Rabobank) and Chloe Hosking, who seems to be determined to please team sponsors by getting her Hitec Products-UCK jersey into as many breaks and onto as many podiums as possible this year. The six stayed together as the race headed first west, then bent north for a short while and negotiented a pair of right-hand bends to get onto Oudelandseweg.

When Koedooder launched a second attack, only
Loes Gunnewijk was able to respond

0.6km further on, the riders arrived at a junction with the Heinkenszandseweg, the widest and most important road the race has seen for some time. Turning left led west and the road ran straight for 2.4km with plenty of width for the peloton to get into pursuit mode, stepping up the pace in the knowledge that they'd expend less energy than the six leaders. In the end, though, it was Koedooder that smashed the lead group apart: with 20km to go, she attacked so hard that only Gunnewijk was able to follow. The race was, against all expectations, going to end with a one-on-one sprint on the last 750m along the straight road to the finish line. Without Wild, who frequently seems utterly unbeatable in a finish such as this one, around to dominate proceedings this situation suited Koedooder perfectly - she powered up to full speed and simply kept going to her fourth win of the season so far, leaving Gunnewijk simply unable to find the little extra she'd have needed to get past. Lucinda Brand, who had led the chase group, took third place at +27" and Chloe Hosking was fourth at +53".

Kirsten Wild, the Argos-Shimano sprinter who crashed early on in the race, would eventually finish in 20th place 10'23" after Koedooder. Subsequent investigation revealed that she'd broken her shoulder - and anybody who has suffered a similar injury, as I have, will be thinking "Chapeau!" in wonderment that she could even get back on her bike, never mind finish the race. She'll now be forced to miss the upcoming Tour of Chongming Island, a race that would have suited her very well; get well soon Kirsten.

2013 victor Vera Koedooder

Result
Top Ten
1 Vera KOEDOODER (Sengers) 3h05'56"
2 Loes GUNNEWIJK (Orica-AIS) ST
3 Lucinda BRAND (Rabobank) +27"
4 Chloe HOSKING (Hitec Products-UCK) +53"
5 Nina KESSLER (Boels-Dolmans) +1'05"
6 Oksana KOZONCHUK (RusVelo) +2'16"
7 Amanda SPRATT, Amanda (Orica-AIS) +2'32"
8 Annemiek VAN VLEUTEN (Rabobank) +2'48"
9 Adrie VISSER(Boels-Dolmans) ST
10 Ilona HOEKSMA (Parkhotel Valkenberg) ST
Full result here

Omloop van het Hageland - Tielt-Winge 2013

03.03.2013 Official Site (race schedule)
Belgium, 1-day Road Race, 122.3km
UCI 1.2

Although we've had a number of events outside Europe (Qatar, Costa Rica, El Salvador) by this point in the year, as far as many fans are concerned the season hasn't really got going until the European - and specifically in the case of women's cycling Belgian, and in the case of Belgian cycling specifically Flemish - season is underway. The Omloop Het Nieuwsblad took place in February, now the Omloop van het Hageland is the second big Flanders race: the racing season has well and truly begun.

55.3km parcours - click to enlarge

The race, now in its fifth edition, consists of one main section of 55.3km and five laps around a 13.4km circuit for a total of 122.3km, offering all the usual features of a Flemish race - tough and narrow roads, knee-busting climbs, bone-and-bike-breaking cobbles and, because it's early March and this is Flanders, potentially horrible weather. Cycling is a cruel and brutal sport; all its cruelty and brutality can be found in the Flemish races, combining to make for spectacular racing.

Last year, Lizzie Armitstead became the first British rider to win when she completed the parcours in 3h17'49", beating Pauline Ferrand-Prévot by 2" and Elisa Longo-Borghini by 4" while the tough Dutch sprinter Kirsten Wild led a group that came in 43" later. No start list has been published at the time of writing but, having gone on to enjoy enormous success throughout last year, we can expect to see Lizzie going for a second victory if she takes part this year.

As is usually the case, there will be three competitions taking place in the race. The first is the General Classification, for which the winner will be awarded €326 and 40 UCI points, second €217 and 30 points, third €164 and 16 points (4th-8th will receive 12, 10, 8, 7 and 3 points respectively) and the next  17 across the line various sums down to €22 for 16th-20th - rather paltry amounts, reflecting the realities of professional women's cycling. There will also be a GPM or hill climbing competition with hill sprints on Kerkstraat in the 55.3km route and on Roeselberg during the first, second, third and fourth laps of the circuit - the first rider to the top receives 5 points, second 3 points and third 1 point; at the end of the race the rider with the most climbing points wins €75, second €50, third €25. Intermediate sprints will be contested at 55.3km as the riders enter the circuit and then at 68.7km, 82.1km and 95.5km as they begin the second, third and fourth laps. The intermediate sprint points system and prizes are the same as the GPM.

13.4km circuit - click to enlarge

The race starts and ends at Tielt, a town of just under 20,000 people that became a German headquarters during the First World War and suffered heavy Allied bombing as a result - almost all of the buildings, many of which look as though they've stood for hundreds of years, had to be rebuilt after the conflict. It is the birthplace of Gianni Meersman, who currently rides for Omega Pharma-Quickstep, and was once the home of the legendary Flandrien (some say the only Flandrien) Briek Schotte.

Climbs

Kerkstraat

Kerkstraat, beginning 50.7km into the race (highest point: 57.2km), is a mere 697m in length and has an average gradient of 4%, which doesn't sound difficult - even the maximum 10.5%, for approximately 20m starting 300m from the start of the road, isn't particularly hard compared to the insane gradients of Paterberg and the infamous Koppenberg. However, conditions on the road are extremely tricky - there is ample opportunity for an unfortunate rider to lose significant time here.


Kerkstraat View Larger Map

It doesn't look like much at the beginning - just a left turn between a grey barn and some modern red-brick houses, leading through some trees toward the church that gives it its name, and despite the cobbles and a low wall on the right during the first hundred metres or so it's straightforward, though too narrow to allow riders to change position much. Then, suddenly, a hazard: on the left, there's a deep, stone-lined ditch running  right along the side of the road for 45m - unless they're near the back of the peloton, any rider who gets in there is going to have a long wait for the mechanic to get through with the spare bike at best and at worst will be out of the race with fractured bones.

Kerkstraat altimetry profile - click to enlarge

The first bend lies 167m from the start of the road - with stone walls either side, all the riders are squeezed tightly together as they attempt to get round and, just to make matters worse, there are steep banks behind the walls meaning that the road is likely to be covered in a slippery layer of mud after rain. Just around the bend the road becomes narrower and steeper; a ditch now runs along the right side and forms another potentially race-ending trap for any rider that runs out of space and rides into it. More banks on both sides mean more slippery cobbles, and the brambles growing on the banks threaten punctures. 47m after the bend the road opens up to the left but becomes even narrower; a short way ahead, where the hedge starts again on the left, the steepest part begins. There's another bend 437m from the start, not as sharp as the first but tighter due to the narrowness of the road and with more banks; then 84m a right bend as the race leaves the trees behind and heads into a final straight 197m past an orchard where any rider that has managed to stay ahead of the pack and find an advantage might - provided the cobbles aren't too wet - be able to step up her speed and extend it before turning left onto the very welcome smooth asphalt of Driesstraat 51.8km from the start of the race. If she can, that rider will then have a good chance of being first through the intermediate sprint at the beginning of the circuit 3.5km away.

Roeselberg

Located 7.6km into the circuit, Roeselberg is shorter at 200m and, despite being steeper (the average gradient is 7.5%) would be a far less daunting prospect than Kerkstraat due to the wider and smoother road - if the riders didn't have to climb it five times, of course.


Roeselberg View Larger Map

The climb begins from a left turn out of Kriebekestraat; there's a bank on the right for the entire climb (and for 100m after it), but it looks stable and is unlikely to cause slippery conditions unless rain has been exceptionally heavy. As the bank ends, the road becomes Motbroekstraat and there are 4.1km to the beginning of the next lap.

Start List

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Weather

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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

23.02.2013 Official Site

Paterberg, max. gradient 20.3%. Sounds tough? Imagine
trying to do it in the rain after more than 60km - and with
an entire peloton trying to do it at the same time

Belgium, Road Race, One-Day Classic, 123.1km
UCI 1.2

The new season is well underway and brings with it the first of the great Flanders Classics - the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. The women's Omloop is of far more recent vintage than the men's race, having begun in 2006 after organisers found themselves in agreement with the idea that one way to promote women's cycling is to run women's races in conjunction with men's races, thus allowing them to benefit from the large crowds, infrastructure and TV crews; that women's cycling is now more popular in Belgium and the Netherlands than anywhere else is proof that the concept works.

Loes Gunnewijk

Like all the Flemish Classics, the Omloop is all about the climbs and the cobbles. Flanders isn't known for its mountains but, although the hills are low, many are knee-breakingly steep and have earned their positions among the most famous, feted and feared placenames in cycling - Nokereberg (28.1km), Kluisberg (51.4km, gradient average 8%, maximum 13%), Côte de Trieu (58.8km), the frankly inhumane  Paterberg with its slippery cobbles (62.4km, av. 12.9%, max. 20.3%), Edelareberg (72.1km), Kattenberg (79.1km, av. 5.9%, max. 8.2%) and Molenberg (82.2km, av. 7%, max.14.2%). Cobbled sections are at Holleweg (79.9km, 1,500m long), Paddestraat (92.6km, 2,300m), Lippenhovestraat (95.1km, 1,300m), Lange Munte (102.1km, 2,500m) and Steenakker (120.5km, 700m).

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Depending on who takes part, several riders are well worth watching; especially Argos-Shimano's Kirsten Wild, who won the third edition of this race back in 2008 and earlier this month became the only woman to have won three editions of the Tour of Qatar, and Orica-AIS star Emma Johansson, one of only two women to have won the Omloop twice (2010 and 2011) - she'd no doubt like to have a historic and record-breaking third victory on her palmares. Last year's winner Loes Gunnewijk, whose speciality is cobbled races, has shown every indication that she's on excellent form again this season and would therefore be another one to watch. So too are all the Rabo Women, as well as Lotto-Belisol's tough Marijn de Vries (who, being a journalist, will also publish one of her excellent and witty race reports afterwards. Marijn is excellent value!). Don't forget to keep an eye on the not-so-well-known riders too: anything can and does happen in a race as tough as a Flemish Classic and up-and-coming stars of the future will grab any opportunities that come their way in an effort to please sponsors and make a name for themselves.

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Start List


ORICA-AIS

1 GUNNEWIJK Loes
2 JOHANSSON Emma
3 MACLEAN Jessie
4 CROMWELL Tiffany
5 SPRATT Amanda
6 ELVIN Gracie
7 EDMONDSON Annette
8 GILLOW Shara

RABO WOMEN

11 BRAND Lucinda
12 GUARNIER Megan
13 DE JONG Thalita
14 KNETEMANN Roxane
15 TALEN Rebecca
16 VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek
17 DE VOCHT Liesbet
18 SLAPPENDEL Iris

SPECIALIZED-LULULEMON

21 COLCLOUGH Katie
22 ROWNEY Loren
23 SMALL Carmen
24 TEUTENBERG Ina
25 VAN DIJK Eleonora
26 WORRACK Trixi
27 BRENNAUER Lisa
28 STEVENS Evelyn

HITEC PRODUCTS-UCK

31 HOSKING Chloe
32 FAHLIN Emilia
33 JOHNSEN Cecilie Gotaas
34 RATTO Rossella
35 NEYLAN Rachel
36 THORSEN Thea
37 BJØRNSRUD Miriam
38 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa

BOELS-DOLMANS

41 ARMITSTEAD Elizabeth
42 BRAS Martine
43 DE BAAT Kim
44 DAAMS Jessie
45 KASPER Romy
46 KESSLER Nina
47 MARTIN Lucy
48 ROOIJAKKERS Pauliena

RUSVELO

51 KUCHINSKAYA Elena
52 BURCHENKOVA Alexandra
53 MISHINA Maria
54 BOCHARNIKOVA Elena
55 JAPAROVA Aijan
56 PANKOVA Larisa
57 BLINDYUK Yulia
58 DOBRYNINA Kseniya

ENDURA LADY FORCE

61 CLAESSEN Marjolein
62 WOERING Henriette
63 GEOGHEGAN Michelle
64 KLOK Ines
65 BOLANGIER Elke
66 NIEUWENHUIZEN Natasja
67 VERSTICHELEN Femke
68 HAERS Carolien

LOTTO-BELISOL

71 DE VRIES Marijn
72 D'HOORE Jolien
73 DUYCK Ann-sophie
74 HANNES Kaat
75 LODEWYKS Steffi
76 ROUSSE Marion
77 SCHOONBAERT Kim
78 VAN SEVEREN Celine

ARGOS-SHIMANO

81 BECKER Charlotte
82 JÖHREND Marlen
83 GARNER Lucy
84 TROMP Esra
85 KANIS Janneke
86 MARKUS Kelly
87 KNOL Willeke
88 WILD Kirsten

WIGGLE-HONDA

91 SCHNITZMEIER Ana Bianca
92 GILMORE Rochelle
93 KITCHEN Lauren
94 COLLINS Emily
95 HAGIWARA Mayuko
96 ROWSELL Joanna
97 ROBERTS Amy
98 KING Dani

SENGERS

101 VAN DER BREGGEN Anna
102 BUYL Kimberly
103 SOEK Julia
104 ARYS Evelyn
105 POLSPOEL Maaike
106 DE VUYST Sofie
107 MAJERUS Christine
108 ROGGEMAN Inge

TIBCO-TO THE TOP

111 BLAAK Chantal
112 HÄUSLER Claudia
113 OLDS Shelley
114 GLAESSER Jasmin
115 BUCHANAN Rushlee
116 SCHNEIDER Samantha
117 KIESANOWSKI Joanne
118 MILLER Meredith

FAREN-LET'S GO FINLAND

121 BASTIANELLI Marta
122 MUSTONEN Sara
123 SAARELAINEN Sari
124 VAN BAARLE Ashlynn
125 ZORZI Susanna
126 ARZUFFI Alice Maria
127 NIEMINEN Jutta
128 RIVERDITI Stella

POLARIS

131 ELZING Karen
132 GERCAMA Alie
133 HOFMANN Sarah-Lena
134 KOSTER Anouska
135 PIJNENBORG Mascha
136 VAN DER KAMP Laura
137 VAN DER MEER Janine
138 VERHOEVEN Aurore

VIENNE FUTUROSCOPE

141 CANUEL Karol-Ann
142 CORDON Audrey
143 ALLEN Jessica
144 BIDEAU Sandrine
145 JEULAND Pascale
146 MERLOT Emmanuelle
147 SOUYRIS Manon
148 CHAUMET Oriane

TOPSPORT VLAADEREN-BIORACER

151 DE CRITS Nel
152 DRUYTS Jessy
153 DRUYTS Kelly
154 CROKET Gilke
155 DE CROOCK Stephanie
156 VEKEMANS Anisha
157 GAFINOVITZ Rotem
158 DE MOYER Tessa

CYCLELIVE PLUS-ZANNATA

161 BRULEE Latoya
162 DECROIX Lieselot
163 DEPOORTER Daisy
164 DOM Annelies
165 HATCH Elizabeth
166 OTTEN Marissa
167 VAN DE REE Monique
168 VAN DOORSLAER Annelies

CRAMO GO:GREEN

171 OLSSON Madelene
172 KIHLBOM Jessica
173 SÖDERBERG Isabelle
174 NILSSON Hanna
175 THOMASSON Martina
176 EHRIN Mirella
177 SJÖBLOM Linnea
178 NILSSON Johanna

TOP GIRLS-FASSA BORTOLO

181 BERLATO Elena
182 BITTO Irene
183 CAUZ Francesca
184 CECCHINI Silvia
185 FIORI Jennifer
186 PIEROBON Chiara
187 PALADIN Asja
188 STEFANI Francesca

USA

191 BOOKWALTER Jamie
192 CROWELL Jacquelyn
193 FISCHER Heather
194 HOLCOMB Janel
195 MC GRATH Kristin
196 WILCOXSON Jade
197 JAMES Ashley
198 KACHOREK Emily

BREAST CANCER CARE CYCLING TEAM

201 BROGAN Kayleigh
202 HORNE Ciara
203 ROE Eileen
204 EWING Anne
205 ROWSON Penny
206 THOROGOOD Elinor

AUTOGLAS WETTEREN

211 BREYNE Mariska
212 BLOMME Marieke
213 BORREMANS Sarah
214 CATTRYSSE Melanie
215 COOLENS Kristina
216 DE RIDDER Amy
217 DE VESTELE Adeline
218 VAN DEN STEEN  Kim

KEUKENS REDANT

221 DEBBOUDT Evelien
222 DEBBOUDT Lensy
223 DEMEY Valerie
224 ROBERT Valerie
225 VAN GLABEKE Shana
226 VERCAMER Elien
227 VERCAMMEN Ine
228 VAN DER MEULEN Kaat

WIELERCLUB DE SPRINTERS MALDEREN

231 DERGENT Eveline
232 FREMINEUR Terry
233 HOFFMANN Chantal
234 LAXSON Shoshauna
235 LEEMAN Mieke
236 ROELEN Evy
237 VAN DEN HAUTE Steffy
238 WERNER Laure

PARKHOTEL VALKENBURG

241 ESHUIS Aafke
242 VAN DEN HOEK Bianca
243 KLEP Inge
244 KOSTER Claudia
245 SLIK Rozanne
246 POST Jermaine
247 VAN WESDONK Nathaly
248 MARKUS Riejanne

Weather

More information nearer the race.

De Omloop van Aalburg

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Official site

Local rider Marianne Vos was favourite to win this one - after all, it goes right through Meeuwen, the village in which she lives and takes part in various cycling workshops for the local children, so she'd have been certain of massive crowd support - but since the Dutch superstar crashed and broke her collarbone at Valkenburg, the race could be anyone's; though if Annemiek van Vleuten, Roxane Knetemann, Liesbet de Vocht, Tatiana Antoshina, Rebecca Talen, Lauren Kitchen, Thalita de Jonghand Iris Slappendel are going, as the official start list says they are, another Rabobank victory is very possible (but then, as anyone who follows women's cycling will know, the riders on any race's start list and the riders who actually take part in the race are very often entirely different people). The complete start list is here.

It's one of those very friendly-feeling races, which isn't the only thing it has in common with the Energiwacht Tour - it also takes place on a similar parcours with several long stretches around the pancake-flat countryside. Like Energiwacht, it'll probably end in a sprint too. It begins on the tree-lined residential Bergstraat in Aalberg, then heads west for 3.3km before turning south to Genderen - a village that has been rebuilt since 1944 when, situated on the line between the liberated south of the country and the Nazi-occupied north, it was almost entirely destroyed by Allied shells. The riders then continue west to Eethen, which suffered as much damage as Genderen, then south again to Drongelen on the banks of the Bergshe Maas canal before continuing north-west to Meeuwen. Just north of the village is Kasteel Meeuwen, actually a large and not-very-impregnable-looking manor house that, along with some earthworks, is all that remains of the real castle that once stood here. There was once a clog factory; nowadays, the village's only claims to fame are the castle, an animal feed business and the fact that Marianne Vos has chosen to make it her home.

Click to enlarge - this is not a race for the climbers!

The parcours heads north past the castle, then east to Babyloniënbroek and past the village "castle," even less like a castle than the one at Meeuwen - it's little more than a large country cottage (though not at all bad to look at). When the race reaches Veldstraat, where it earlier turned south for Genderen, the riders turn north and cross a bridge over the N267 trunk road and, a little way ahead, turn east to head into Veen before following the roads south back to Bergstraat in Aalburg. This loop is completed three times - on the fourth passage from Bergstraat, the riders will turn north towards the N267 instead of south towards Genderen and complete three laps of the smaller circuit.

Weather
High temperatures of around 24C are pretty much the ideal for most people and the 24kph easterly wind won't do anything to reduce it - though on such a flat parcours, it may affect the riders on the open sections. Rain is extremely unlikely at any point during the day, making it perfect weather to go and watch the race.

Chloe's Omloop

"Trixi’s comment, “You’ve never done it before? Good luck!”didn’t exactly fill me with confidence..." Chloe Hosking on her first Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

Gunnewijk wins Women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Loes Gunnewijk
(image credit: wielerpro.nl CC BY 2.0) 

A breakaway powered by three GreenEDGE riders at the halfway point Côte de Trieu drained a large postion of the peloton's energy, leaving nobody able to keep up when Loes Gunnewijk attacked on the famous cobbles of Paddestraat as the race entered its final part. The 31-year-old Dutch rider was then left alone for five kilometress until Specialized-Lululemon's Ellen Van Dijk joined her and shared the work. The two women entered the final sprint together with Gunnewijk proving marginally faster to the line.

GreenEDGE continue their fantastic first season, having won every race they've thus far entered. Lululemon, of which third place Trixie Worrack is also a member, are having a great start to what is their first season too; the two teams having also taken seven of the top ten spots at the Tour of Qatar.

The best-placed British rider was Lucy Martin and Katie Colclough in 32nd and 33rd place.

For an excellent report on the race, click here.


1 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Greenedge-AIS 3:17:14
2 Eleonora Van Dijk (Ned) Team Specialized-Lululemon
3 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Team Specialized-Lululemon 0:01:10
4 Martine Bras (Ned) Dolmans-Boels Cyclingteam  
5 Pauline Ferrand Prevot (Fra) Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team  
6 Noemi Cantele (Ita) Be Pink  
7 Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Hitec Products-Mistral Home Cycling Team  
8 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Greenedge-AIS  
9 Amanda Spratt (Aus) Greenedge-AIS  
10 Elizabeth Armitstead (GBr) AA Drink-Leontien.nl Cycling Team  
11 Lise Nöstvold (Nor) Hitec Products-Mistral Home Cycling Team 0:01:19  
12 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Team Specialized-Lululemon 0:01:33  
13 Latoya Brulee (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Ridley 2012  
14 Christine Majerus (Lux) Team Gsd Gestion  
15 Roxane Knetemann (Ned) Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team  
16 Ludivine Henrion (Bel) Lotto Belisol Ladies  
17 Sarah Düster (Ger) Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team  
18 Romy Kasper (Ger) Rusvelo  
19 Thalita De Jong (Ned) Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team  
20 Sara Mustonen (Swe) Hitec Products-Mistral Home Cycling Team  
21 Maaike Polspoel (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Ridley 2012  
22 Irene Van Den Broek (Ned) Dolmans-Boels Cyclingteam  
23 Madeleine Olsson (Swe) AA Drink-Leontien.nl Cycling Team  
24 Jessie Daams (Bel) AA Drink-Leontien.nl Cycling Team  
25 Ann-Sophie Duyck (Bel) Lotto Belisol Ladies  
26 Iris Slappendel (Ned) Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team  
27 Alexis Rhodes (Aus) Greenedge-AIS  
28 Chantal Blaak (Ned) AA Drink-Leontien.nl Cycling Team  
29 Fröydis Waerstad (Nor) Hitec Products-Mistral Home Cycling Team  
30 Carlee Taylor (Aus) Vienne Futuroscope  
31 Regina Bruins (Ned) Skil 1T4I 0:04:46  
32 Lucy Martin (GBr) AA Drink-Leontien.nl Cycling Team 0:07:17  
33 Katie Colclough (GBr) Team Specialized-Lululemon  
34 Kaat Hannes (Bel) Lotto Belisol Ladies  
35 Jolien d'Hoore (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen-Ridley 2012  
36 Marlen Jöhrend (Ger) Abus Nutrixxion