| 2022 The Women's Tour | |
| Date: | 6–11 June 2021 |
| Stages: | 6 |
| Distance: | 736.3 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 19h 19' 07" |
| First: | Elisa Longo Borghini |
| First Nat: | ITA |
| First Color: | yellow |
| Second: | Grace Brown |
| Second Nat: | AUS |
| Third: | Katarzyna Niewiadoma |
| Third Nat: | POL |
| Points: | Lorena Wiebes |
| Points Nat: | NED |
| Points Color: | pink |
| Mountains: | Elise Chabbey |
| Mountains Nat: | SUI |
| Mountains Color: | green |
| Sprints: | Maike van der Duin |
| Sprints Nat: | NED |
| Sprints Color: | red |
| Combativity: | Grace Brown |
| Combativity Nat: | AUS |
| Previous: | 2021 |
| Next: | 2023 |
| Race No: | 14 |
| Season No: | 25 |
| Series: | UCI Women's World Tour |
The 2022 The Women's Tour was the eighth staging of The Women's Tour, a women's cycling stage race held in Great Britain. It ran from 6 to 11 June 2022, as part of the 2022 UCI Women's World Tour.
The race was won by Elisa Longo Borghini of Trek–Segafredo, by a margin of just 1 second.[1] [2]
The route was announced in spring 2022, with stage 5 having a mountain top finish on Black Mountain in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. The finish was noted to be the hardest mountain top finish of a Women's Tour, with an average gradient of 5.3%.[3] [4]
| Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 June | Colchester to Bury St Edmunds | 142.1km (88.3miles) | Flat stage | |||
| 2 | 7 June | Harlow to Harlow | 92.1km (57.2miles) | Flat stage | |||
| 3 | 8 June | Tewkesbury to Gloucester | 107.9km (67miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 4 | 9 June | Wrexham to Welshpool | 144.7km (89.9miles) | Hilly stage | |||
| 5 | 10 June | Pembrey Country Park to Black Mountain | 106.6km (66.2miles) | Mountain stage | |||
| 6 | 11 June | Chipping Norton to Oxford | 142.9km (88.8miles) | Flat stage | |||
| Total | 736.3km (457.5miles) | ||||||
97 riders from 17 teams were entered in the race, with 13 of the teams being from the UCI Women's World Tour.[5] For the first time, all stages were broadcast live.[6]
Elisa Longo Borghini came third in the final bunch sprint in Oxford, gaining 4 bonus seconds and taking the overall classification by just 1 second from Grace Brown.[7] To honour journalist Richard Moore, a special award for the rider who "went above and beyond with the media" was presented to Clara Copponi.[8] [9]
| Rider | Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | +1" | |||
| 3 | +5" | |||
| 4 | +24" | |||
| 5 | +32" | |||
| 6 | +49" | |||
| 7 | +54" | |||
| 8 | +1'45" | |||
| 9 | +1'50" | |||
| 10 | +1'56" |