Final startlist for the 2021 AJ Bell Women’s Tour, 4-9 October.
842 days after Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) won the last edition of the race, the AJ Bell Women’s Tour returns tomorrow (Monday 4 October).
Two days after her historic victory in the first-ever women’s Paris Roubaix Deignan heads the start list as the race gets underway in Oxfordshire with a 147.7-kilometre (91.8-mile) stage between Bicester and Banbury.
In total 16 different nationalities are represented on the start line in the 89-rider field. Britain is the most represented nation with 24 riders in the peloton.
A trio of riders – Hannah Barnes (Canyon SRAM Racing), Leah Kirchmann (Team DSM), and Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) – will be competing in their seventh edition of the AJ Bell Women’s Tour, having started and finished all six editions to date.
The youngest rider in the race is Alice Towers (Drops – Le Col s/b TEMPUR) at 18 years and 358 days, while Trek-Segafredo rider Trixi Worrack’s in one of the final races of her career at 40 years and 6 days.
This year’s AJ Bell Women’s Tour features its first-ever individual time trial, taking place in Atherstone on stage three (Wednesday 6 October), with the overall champion set to be crowned in Felixstowe on Saturday (9 October). See our route guide here.
Featured photo: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com – 15/06/2019 – Cycling – OVO Energy Women’s Tour, Stage 6: Carmarthen to Pembrey Country Park – Manon Lloyd of Drops, Lizzie Deignan of Trek Segafredo, Coryn Rivera of Sunweb, Kasia Niewiadoma of Canyon SRAM, Lizzy Banks of Bigla and Jolien D’Hoore of Boels Dolmans.
Final startlist for the 2021 AJ Bell Women’s Tour, 4-9 October.
842 days after Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) won the last edition of the race, the AJ Bell Women’s Tour returns tomorrow (Monday 4 October).
Two days after her historic victory in the first-ever women’s Paris Roubaix Deignan heads the start list as the race gets underway in Oxfordshire with a 147.7-kilometre (91.8-mile) stage between Bicester and Banbury.
In total 16 different nationalities are represented on the start line in the 89-rider field. Britain is the most represented nation with 24 riders in the peloton.
A trio of riders – Hannah Barnes (Canyon SRAM Racing), Leah Kirchmann (Team DSM), and Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) – will be competing in their seventh edition of the AJ Bell Women’s Tour, having started and finished all six editions to date.
The youngest rider in the race is Alice Towers (Drops – Le Col s/b TEMPUR) at 18 years and 358 days, while Trek-Segafredo rider Trixi Worrack’s in one of the final races of her career at 40 years and 6 days.
This year’s AJ Bell Women’s Tour features its first-ever individual time trial, taking place in Atherstone on stage three (Wednesday 6 October), with the overall champion set to be crowned in Felixstowe on Saturday (9 October). See our route guide here.
Featured photo: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com – 15/06/2019 – Cycling – OVO Energy Women’s Tour, Stage 6: Carmarthen to Pembrey Country Park – Manon Lloyd of Drops, Lizzie Deignan of Trek Segafredo, Coryn Rivera of Sunweb, Kasia Niewiadoma of Canyon SRAM, Lizzy Banks of Bigla and Jolien D’Hoore of Boels Dolmans.
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