May 7/14 12:59 pm - The Women's Tour: Stage 1 report and results
Posted by Editoress on 05/7/14
Emma Johansson rides into history in Northampton
World number one Emma Johansson became the Friends Life Women's Tour number one as she narrowly beat Marianne Vos on Derngate in Northampton to take the opening stage and with it the race lead.
The Swedish rider headed home Vos and Northamptonshire's Hannah Barnes, who claimed the Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Best British Rider jersey.
Johansson, of the Orica AIS team now leads the Friends Life General Classification by four seconds from Vos, and also the YodelDirect Points Jersey, thanks to points scored at the opening YodelDirect Sprint in Desborough, and the 15-points on the finish line.
On the startline in Oundle
Peloton riding through countryside
The first ever Friends Life Women's Tour was waved away from Oundle under blue skies, with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson waving the Union Jack in front of large crowds packing out the picturesque Northamptonshire market town.
An active and engaging race saw several attacks fail to stick, with Rossella Ratto the first to gain any significant advantage with her attempt after the day's opening YodelDirect Sprint taking her clear over the race's first Strava Queen of the Mountains climb at Harrington.
With Ratto caught the next major moment came in the grounds of the Althorp Estate and the last 30-kilometres with the race splitting up sending Elise Delzenne clear.
The Specialized Lululemon rider built up a lead of up to 45-seconds as the race skirted around Northampton, but come the closing kilometres the lead was whittled down by the Rabo Liv and Boels Dolmans teams until Delzenne was caught approaching the final kilometre to go marker.
Emma Johansson takes the win over Marianne Vos
All back together and Lizzie Armitsead opened up the sprint with around 450-metres to go with Johansson on her wheel. Vos then came past to take the lead, with Johansson's late sprint pipping Vos to victory in the first ever stage of the Friends Life Women's Tour.
Armitstead faded to finish eighth, with Leicestershire's Lucy Garner two places ahead of her in sixth, the day before the Friends Life Women's Tour races through her hometown of Cosby.
Stage Two sees the 90-riders remaining in the Friends Life Women's Tour racing from Hinckley to Bedford in a 118.5-kilometre leg, finishing on The Embankment in Bedford on Thursday 8th May.
Press release
Results for the first stage in the UK
| Stage 1: Oundle to Northhampton, 93.8 km | |
| 1 Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica AIS | 2:28:29 |
| 2 Marianne Vos (Ned) Rabo Liv women cycling team | |
| 3 Hannah Barnes (GBr) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | |
| 4 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Specialized-lululemon | |
| 5 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Wiggle Honda | |
| 6 Lucy Garner (GBr) Great Britain | |
| 7 Elena Cecchini (Ita) Estado de Mexico Faren | |
| 8 Lizzie Armitstead (GBr) Boels Dolmans cycling team | |
| 9 Amy Pieters (Ned) Netherlands | |
| 10 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Specialized-lululemon | |
| 11 Lauren Hall (USA) Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 12 Leah Kirchmann (Can) Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 13 Jolanda Neff (Sui) Switzerland | |
| 14 Aurore Verhoeven (Fra) Lointek | |
| 15 Aude Biannic (Fra) Lointek | |
| 16 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Hitec products | |
| 17 Liesbet de Vocht (Bel) Lotto Belisol Ladies | |
| 18 Jessie Walker (GBr) Matrix Fitness - Vulpine | |
| 19 Dalia Muccioli (Ita) Astana Bepink womens team | |
| 20 Ellen van Dijk (Ned) Boels Dolmans cycling team | |
| 21 Mascha Pijnenborg (Ned) Netherlands | |
| 22 Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Hitec products | |
| 23 Denise Ramsden (Can) Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 24 Lisa Brennauer (Ger) Specialized-lululemon | |
| 25 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Rabo Liv women cycling team | |
| 26 Janel Holcomb (USA) Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 27 Sharon Laws (GBr) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | |
| 28 Linda Villumsen (NZl) Wiggle Honda | |
| 29 Dani King (GBr) Wiggle Honda | |
| 30 Emily Kay (GBr) Great Britain | |
| 31 Janine van de Meer (Ned) Netherlands | |
| 32 Katrin Leumann (Sui) Switzerland | |
| 33 Annette Edmondson (Aus) Orica AIS | |
| 34 Lucy Martin (GBr) Estado de Mexico Faren | |
| 35 Gracie Elvin (Aus) Orica AIS | |
| 36 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (RSA) Hitec products | |
| 37 Charlotte Becker (Ger) Wiggle Honda | |
| 38 Laura Trott (GBr) Wiggle Honda | |
| 39 Peta Mullens (Aus) Wiggle Honda | |
| 40 Linda Indergand (Sui) Switzerland | |
| 41 Alice Arzuffi (Ita) Astana Bepink womens team | |
| 42 Melon Pawlowska (Pol) Boels Dolmans cycling team | |
| 43 Romy Kasper (Ger) Boels Dolmans cycling team | |
| 44 Anouska Koster (Ned) Netherlands | |
| 45 Susanna Zorzi (Ita) Astana Bepink womens team | |
| 46 Iris Slappendel (Ned) Rabo Liv women cycling team | |
| 47 Chantal Blaak (Ned) Specialized-lululemon | |
| 48 Henriette Woering (Ned) Netherlands | |
| 49 Ciara Horne (GBr) Great Britain | |
| 50 Ramona Forchini (Sui) Switzerland | |
| 51 Belen Lopez (Spa) Lointek | |
| 52 Valentina Scandolara (Ita) Orica AIS | |
| 53 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Orica AIS | |
| 54 Rossella Ratto (Ita) Estado de Mexico Faren | |
| 55 Lucia Gonzalez (Spa) Lointek | |
| 56 Elise Delzenne (Fra) Specialized-lululemon | |
| 57 Shara Gillow (Aus) Orica AIS | |
| 58 Helen Wyman (GBr) Matrix Fitness - Vulpine | |
| 59 Fanny Riberot (Fra) Lointek | |
| 60 Karol Ann Canuel (Can) Specialized-lululemon | |
| 61 Katharine Hall (USA) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | |
| 62 Doris Schweizer (Sui) Astana Bepink womens team | |
| 63 Anna Knauer (Ger) Rabo Liv women cycling team | |
| 64 Hayley Jones (GBr) Great Britain | |
| 65 Jessie Daams (Bel) Boels Dolmans cycling team | |
| 66 Katie Archibald (GBr) Great Britain | |
| 67 Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) Astana Bepink womens team | |
| 68 Roxane Knetemann (Ned) Rabo Liv women cycling team | |
| 69 Emma Pooley (GBr) Lotto Belisol Ladies | |
| 70 Erika Leticia Yepez Fernandez (Mex) Estado de Mexico Faren | |
| 71 Lauren Tamayo (USA) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | |
| 72 Emma Trott (GBr) Boels Dolmans cycling team | |
| 73 Cari Higgins (USA) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | |
| 74 Ruth Winder (USA) UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | |
| 75 Jade Wilcoxson (USA) Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 76 Chantal Hoffmann (Lux) Lotto Belisol Ladies | all s.t. |
| 77 Lucinda Brand (Ned) Rabo Liv women cycling team | 0:24 |
| 78 Amy Cure (Aus) Lotto Belisol Ladies | 1:25 |
| 79 Uenia Fernandes Souza (Bra) Estado de Mexico Faren | 1:51 |
| 80 Jutta Stienen (Sui) Switzerland | 2:46 |
| 81 Thea Thorsen (Nor) Hitec products | 2:49 |
| 82 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Estado de Mexico Faren | 2:52 |
| 83 Sheyla Gutierrez (Spa) Lointek | 2:59 |
| 84 Jo Tindley (GBr) Matrix Fitness - Vulpine | 3:09 |
| 85 Amy Hill (GBr) Great Britain | 8:44 |
| 86 Caroline Baur (Sui) Switzerland | |
| 87 Melissa Lowther (GBr) Matrix Fitness - Vulpine | |
| 88 Isabelle Beckers (Bel) Lotto Belisol Ladies | |
| 89 Penny Rowson (GBr) Matrix Fitness - Vulpine | all s.t. |
| 90 Harriet Owen (GBr) Matrix Fitness - Vulpine | 17:55 |
| DNF Molly Meyvisch (Bel) Lotto Belisol Ladies | |
| DNF Ashlynn Van Baarle (Ned) Netherlands | |
| DNF Audrey Cordon (Fra) Hitec products | |
| DNF Siri Minge (Nor) Hitec products | |
| DNF Michela Maltese (Ita) Astana Bepink womens team | |
| Team GC | |
| 1 Specialized-lululemon | 7:25:27 |
| 2 Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 3 Netherlands | |
| 4 Wiggle Honda | |
| 5 Orica AIS | |
| 6 Boels Dolmans cycling team | |
| 7 Rabo Liv women cycling team | |
| 8 Hitec products | |
| 9 Lointek | |
| 10 Great Britain | |
| 11 Switzerland | |
| 12 UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling | |
| 13 Estado de Mexico Faren | |
| 14 Astana Bepink womens team | |
| 15 Lotto Belisol Ladies | all s.t. |
| 16 Matrix Fitness - Vulpine | 3:09 |
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