Jul 16, 2013

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Linda Villumsen was awarded the blue jersey for Most Aggressive Rider at the end of the opening stage of the Thüringen-Rundfahrt, in Schleusingen, eastern Germany, after a solo attack that was only closed down in the final kilometre.  The New Zealand time trial champion managed to escape just before the second climb of the day, with...

Jul 16, 2013

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s riders took medals galore in the European Track Championships this week, with British riders Laura Trott and Elinor Barker, and Italian Beatrice Bartelloni all coming away with silverware. Trott and Barker dominated the Individual Pursuit, the Points Race, with Trott also taking the Omnium, but the championship began with Beatrice...

Jul 8, 2013

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Linda Villumsen finished fifth in the final time trial stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile – the Giro Rosa – in the city of Cremona. Dressed in the special “silver fern” skinsuit of New Zealand time trial champion, the 28-year-old completed the 16.7km city course in a time of 22 minutes 14 seconds, to finish just one...

Jul 8, 2013

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s former two-time World champion Giorgia Bronzini sprinted to second place in the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile – the Giro Rosa – at the end of a fast circuit race in Corbetta, to the west of Milan. The 29-year-old Italian could only be beaten to the line by current rainbow jersey Marianne Vos...

Jul 8, 2013

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Lauren Kitchen positioned herself into the nine-rider breakaway group that escaped the peloton midway through the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile – the Giro Rosa – and managed to build a lead of two minutes over the peloton. Unfortunately, the United States team of Maglia Rosa Mara Abbott pulled back the group...