2016 in women's road cycling explained

2016 in women's road cycling is about the 2016 women's bicycle races ruled by the UCI and the 2016 UCI Women's Teams.

World Championships

See main article: 2016 UCI Road World Championships. The World Road Championships is set to be held in Doha, Qatar.

	Race	Date	Winner	Second	Third
World Road Championships	Team Time Trial
	Individual Time Trial
	Road Race

UCI Women's WorldTour

See also: UCI Women's WorldTour and 2016 UCI Women's World Tour.

Single day races (1.1 and 1.2)

Race	Date	†	Winner	Second	Third
Gran Prix San Luis Femenino	January 9	1.2			Anna Trevisi
Udon Thani's 123rd Anniversary International Cycling	January 17	1.2		Ting Ying Huang	Hsiao Chia Tseng
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race	January 30	1.2			Dani King
	February 27	1.1	Cancelled
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	February 27	1.1			Tiffany Cromwell
Omloop van het Hageland	February 28	1.1			Lotta Lepistö
Le Samyn des Dames	March 2	1.2			Amy Pieters
Massada Arad	March 3	1.2			Antri Christoforou
Arad Dimona Arad	March 4	1.2			Shani Bloch
Dead Sea–Scorpion Pass	March 5	1.2			Liisi Rist
Acht van Westerveld	March 13	1.2			Anouska Koster
Cholet Pays de Loire Dames	March 20	1.2	Cancelled
Pajot Hills Classic	March 30	1.2			Lotta Lepisto
Grand Prix de Dottignies	April 4	1.2			Roxane Fournier
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria	April 12	1.2			Emma Johansson
Salverda Omloop van de IJsseldelta	April 16	1.2			Floortje Mackaij
Ronde van Gelderland	April 17	1.2			Lieselot Decroix
EPZ Omloop van Borsele	April 23	1.1			Christine Majerus
Dwars door de Westhoek	April 24	1.1			Emma Johansson
GP della Liberazione	April 25	1.2			Arianna Fidanza
	April 30	1.2			Floortje Mackaij
Grand Prix of Moscow	May 2	1.2	Cancelled
Rabobank Marianne Vos Classic	May 7	1.2
Trofee Maarten Wynants	May 8	1.2
Copa Federación Venezolana de Ciclismo	May 11	1.2			Wilmarys Moreno
Clasico FVCiclismo Corre Por la VIDA	May 12	1.2			Miryan Nuñez
Gran Premio de Venezuela	May 14	1.2			Jennifer Cesar
Grand Prix de Venezuela	May 15	1.2			Íngrid Drexel
Velothon Wales	May 22	1.2	Cancelled
La Classique Morbihan	May 27	1.1
Boels Rental Hills Classic	May 27	1.1
Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Dames	May 28	1.1
Horizon Park Women Challenge	May 28	1.2
VR Women ITT	May 29	1.2			Hanna Solovey
Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik	May 29	1.1
Winston-Salem Cycling Classic	May 30	1.2
Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau	June 2	1.1			Leah Kirchmann
Chrono Gatineau	June 3	1.1			Karol-Ann Canuel
Zuidkempense Ladies Classic	June 5	1.2			Sara Mustonen
Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT	June 10	1.2			Claire Rose
Frauen Grand Prix Gippingen	June 12	1.2	Cancelled
Diamond Tour	June 12	1.1			Monique van de Ree
	June 15	1.2			Nikola Zdráhalová
White Spot / Delta Road Race	July 10	1.2			Alison Jackson
Erondegemse Pijl	August 6	1.2
Chrono Champenois	September 11	1.1
Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite	September 24	1.1
Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite	September 25	1.1			Barbara Guarischi
Chrono des Nations	October 23	1.1
94.7 Cycle Challenge	November 20	1.1

† The clock symbol denotes a race which takes the form of a one-day time trial.^[1]

Stage races (2.1 and 2.2)

Race	Date		Winner	Second	Third
Tour Femenino de San Luis	January 10–15	2.1			Arlenis Sierra
Tour of Udon	January 15–16	2.2		Ting Ying Huang	Hsiao Chia Tseng
Santos Women's Tour	January 16–19	2.2			Lauren Kitchen
Ladies Tour of Qatar	February 2–5	2.1			Ellen van Dijk
Vuelta Femenil Internacional	April 2–3	2.2			Yngrid Porras
Energiewacht Tour	April 6–10	2.2			Lisa Brennauer
The Princess Maha Chackri Sirindhon's Cup	April 8–10	2.2
Emakumeen Euskal Bira	June 13–17	2.1			Ashleigh Moolman
Joe Martin Stage Race	April 21–24	2.2
Gracia–Orlová	April 28– May 1	2.2			Alena Amialiusik
Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs	April 29– May 1	2.1
Tour of the Gila	May 4–8	2.2			Jasmin Glaesser
Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica	May 5–8	2.2			Flávia Oliveira
Tour of Zhoushan Island	May 11–13	2.1			Nicole Brändli
4. Naisten kv. etappiajo – 4th Women's Stage Race	May 13–15	2.2			Shani Bloch
Tour d'Occitanie	May 20–25	2.2	Cancelled
Auensteiner-Radsporttage	June 11–12	2.2	Ashleigh Moolman		Annemiek van Vleuten
Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol	June 18–19	2.1	Katarzyna Niewiadoma	Claudia Lichtenberg-Häusler	Soraya Paladin
Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska	July 7–10	2.2	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig	Anna Plichta	Natalia Boyarskaya
Tour de Bretagne Féminin	July 13–17	2.2
BeNe Ladies Tour	July 15–17	2.2
Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen	July 15–21	2.1
	July 19–20	2.2
Cascade Cycling Classic	July 20–24	2.2
La Route de France	August 7–14	2.1			Eugenia Bujak
Ladies Tour of Norway	August 12–14	2.1			Anouska Koster
Trophée d'Or Féminin	August 21–24	2.2			Daiva Tušlaitė
Boels Rental Ladies Tour	August 30–September 4	2.1
Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche	September 1	2.2			Edwige Pitel
Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour	September 6–9	2.1			Lucinda Brand
Premondiale Giro Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini	September 9–11	2.2

Source^[1]

Championships

International Games

Championships	Race	Winner	Second	Third
South Asian Games	Road race	Tourangbam Bidyaluxmi	Menamparambil Lidiyamol Sunny	N. Geethuraj
	Individual Time Trial	Tourangbam Bidyaluxmi	Elangbam Chaobi Devi	Sabiha Bibi
	Criterium	Menamparambil Lidiyamol Sunny	Tongbram Manorama Devi	Sudarika Priyadarshani Peththaperuma Arachchige
	Team Time Trial
Olympic Games	Road race	Anna van der Breggen	Emma Johansson	Elisa Longo Borghini
	Individual Time Trial	Kristin Armstrong	Olga Zabelinskaya	Anna van der Breggen

Continental Championships

Championships	Race	Winner	Second	Third
	Road race	Vera Adrian	An-Li Kachelhoffer	Kimberly Le Court de Billot
	Individual time trial	Vera Adrian	Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu	Samantha Sanders
	Team time trial
Oceania Cycling Championships	Road race	Shannon Malseed	Jessica Mundy	Lisen Hockings
	Individual time trial	Katrin Garfoot	Bridie O Donnell	Kate Perry
Pan American Championships	Road race	Iraida Garcia	Arlenis Sierra	Flávia Oliveira
	Individual time trial	Sérika Gulumá	Ana Sanabria	Íngrid Drexel
Asian Cycling Championships (2016 summary)	Road race	Ahreum Na	Yixian Pu	Mayuko Hagiwara
	Individual time trial	Mayuko Hagiwara	Ju Mi Lee	Yao Pang
European Road Championships (2016 summary)	Road race^[2]	Anna van der Breggen	Katarzyna Niewiadoma	Elisa Longo Borghini
		Ellen van Dijk	Anna van der Breggen	Olga Zabelinskaya
	Road race (U23)	Katarzyna Niewiadoma	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig	Séverine Eraud
		Anastasiia Iakovenko	Ksenyia Tuhai	Lisa Klein

Source^[1]

UCI teams

See main article: List of 2016 UCI Women's Teams and riders. The country designation of each team is determined by the country of registration of the largest number of its riders, and is not necessarily the country where the team is registered or based.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Races.
2. Web site: European road cycling championships to feature elite events for first time. Cyclingnews.com.
3. Book: UCI Cycling Regulations, Part 2: Road Races . . Clause 2.17.006, page 160 . 1 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110623174023/http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTkzNg&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=34028&LangId=1 . 23 June 2011 .