The 2015 Strade Bianche was the first running of the Strade Bianche Donne, a one-day women's cycling race in Italy that was held on 7 March 2015. The race started in San Gimignano and finished on Siena's Piazza del Campo and was run entirely in the province of Siena, in the Chianti region of Tuscany. The inaugural edition was spun off the men's event, which started in 2007, and had a UCI rating of 1.1.[1][2]
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| Dates | 7 March 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 103 km (64.00 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2h 59' 17" | ||||||||||||
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The event was won by American Megan Guarnier after distancing her teammate Lizzie Armitstead and Italian Elisa Longo Borghini during the final stretches of the race.[3][4] Like the men's race, the women's race featured five gravel sectors, totalling 17 kilometres (11 miles).[5]
Teams
edit16 teams competed in the race.[6]
Results
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| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
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| 1 |  Megan Guarnier (USA)
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Boels–Dolmans | 2h 59' 17" |
| 2 |  Lizzie Armitstead (GBR)
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Boels–Dolmans | + 37" |
| 3 |  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)
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Wiggle–Honda | + 37" |
| 4 |  Ashleigh Moolman (RSA)
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Bigla Pro Cycling Team | + 39" |
| 5 |  Anna van der Breggen (NED)
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Rabo–Liv | + 46" |
| 6 |  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)
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Rabo–Liv | + 52" |
| 7 |  Alena Amialiusik (BLR)
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Velocio–SRAM | + 54" |
| 8 |  Hanna Solovey (UKR)
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Astana–Acca Due O | + 1' 04" |
| 9 | Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)
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Bigla Pro Cycling Team | + 1' 10" |
| 10 | Elena Cecchini (ITA)
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Lotto–Soudal Ladies | + 4' 01" |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ ProCyclingStats. "Strade Bianche WE 2015 - Classic". procyclingstats.com.
- ^ "Strade Bianche 2015 : San Gimignano - Siena - CyclingFever - The International Cycling Social Network - Get the Cycling fever!". cyclingfever.com.
- ^ "Strade Bianche 2015 : San Gimignano - Siena". Cyclingfever. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ "Guarnier wins Strade Bianche 2015 Armitstead second, Longo Borghini third". CyclingNews. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ Kirsten Frattini. "Women's news shorts: Hosking and Kirchmann ready for Qatar, Matrix signs Trott". Cyclingnews.com.
- ^ Patrick Fletcher. "Vos and Armitstead to ride Strade Bianche". Cyclingnews.com.
- ^ "Results: 2015 Strade Bianche". VeloNews. Pocket Outdoor Media. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2021.