Chloe Hosking takes another European victory in the Classique Morbihan
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Chloe Hosking took her second victory of the month as she was the fastest of a four-woman breakaway on the uphill finish of the first ever Classique Morbihan in Plumelec, Brittany, in western France. The 24-year-old Australian beat French sprinter Pascale Jeuland (Poitou-Charentes Futuroscope) to the line at the end of the 100km race, as Eider Merino (Lointek) beat Margaux Cadol (Team Ladies Breizh) in the race for fourth. Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Audrey Cordon-Ragot won the sprint for fifth place at the head of...
read moreGiorgia Bronzini Wins the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup!
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini has won the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup race on the island across the mouth of the Yangtze River from Shanghai, China. Having been beaten into two third places and a fourth in the stage race of the same name earlier in the week, the former two-time road World Champion managed to beat big Dutch sprint rival Kirsten Wild (Hitec Products) to the line by more than a length this time, with Fanny Riberot (French National Team) winning the close battle for third. “There was nothing especially...
read moreAnother Chongming Island Tour Podium for Giorgia Bronzini on Stage Two
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini took her second straight third place finish in the 2015 Tour of Chongming Island on the second stage of the three-day race in Chongxi. Dutch powerhouse Kirsten Wild (Hitec Products) won the stage in a bunch sprint, as she had done the day before, with Roxane Fournier just beating Bronzini to second place this time. “The girls did an amazing job again today to put me in the best position,” Bronzini explained. “For the sprint the girls tried to lead out me but in the end I was again in Wild’s wheel. I...
read moreGiorgia Bronzini takes third in Chongming Island Tour Stage One
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini sprinted to third place at the end of the opening stage of the Tour of Chongming Island, in the Chongbei area of the island across the mouth of the Yangtze River from Shanghai. The former two-time road World Champion was beaten to the line by Dutch super-sprinter Kirsten Wild (Hitec Products) and American Shelley Olds (Bigla) at the end of a largely uneventful 107km stage. “It was a pretty uneventful race, with like four turns in the whole course,” Bronzini said afterwards. “The first intermediate...
read moreChloe Hosking beats Vos to take first 2015 win at the Marianne Vos Classic
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Chloe Hosking has taken her long-awaited first UCI victory of the 2015 season at the Marianne Vos Classic, in Aalburg, Netherlands. The 24-year-old Australian outsprinted former World Champion Vos (Rabo-Liv) herself at the end of the tough, attritional 121km race, ahead of Amy Pieters (Liv-Plantur) and Emma Johansson (Orica-AIS). Hosking’s Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling teammate Elisa Longo Borghini took fourth place, three seconds behind, as an elite leading group began to split in the final kilometres. “It’s so nice to...
read moreHonda Civic – Tourers
At the start of 2014, Honda Motor Europe supplied our team with three Honda Civic Tourers to be used as team cars and we are continue to do so in 2015. This was an exciting moment for everyone in the team, as Honda is one of the World’s leading automotive brands, with a passion for racing on two wheels and four. Honda has a car to suit every lifestyle and we use our Honda vehicles for both team and personal use. Some photos of the Tourers: Website Twitter
read moreAbbott seals fifth Tour of the Gila victory with Gila Monster Road Race win
A second stage victory for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Mara Abbott sealed a record fifth victory in the Tour of the Gila in Pinos Altos, New Mexico. the 29-year-old Coloradan, riding for the Amy D Foundation in memory of the late Amy Dombroski, rode clear of the rest of the field on the fifth and final stage, the Gila Monster Road Race, between Silver City and Pinos Altos. Katie Hall (UnitedHealthcare) took second place on the stage, 37 seconds behind Abbott, with Breanne Nalder (DNA Cycling) in third place, three minutes back. Having led the...
read moreAbbott climbs to sixth victory on Mogollon to take Tour of the Gila stage one
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Mara Abbott won the opening stage of the Tour of the Gila, between Silver City and the mountaintop finish at Mogollon, New Mexico, as she rode the rest of the peloton off her wheel. Riding for the composite Amy D Foundation team, set up in memory of cyclocross rider Amy Dombroski, who was tragically killed while training in Belgium in 2013, Abbott finished 48 seconds ahead of Abby Mickey (UnitedHealthcare), with Jasmin Glaesser (Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) a further five seconds back in third. “It was a good...
read moreJolien D’hoore Wins Bunch Sprint for Second in Dwars door de Westhoek
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Jolien D’hoore won the bunch sprint for second place in the Dwars door de Westhoek, in Boezinge, near Ypres in West Flanders. The Belgian Champion beat Australian Tiffany Cromwell (Velocio-SRAM) and Kirsten Wild (Hitec Products) on the cobbled finishing straight, 30 seconds behind Cromwell’s teammate Elise Delzenne, who had escaped midway through the 135km race. “It was a strange race,” D’hoore said. “Everybody was waiting, and waiting for a bunch sprint. But then one girl got away. “We saw that she had two minutes,...
read moreElisa Longo Borghini looking to add La Flèche Wallonne to Flanders Glory
Elisa Longo Borghini will lead a powerful Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling into Wednesday’s La Flèche Wallonne Femmes, the fourth round of the UCI Women’s Road World Cup. The 23-year-old Italian has finished on the podium of both of the last two editions of the southern Belgian Classic and, after her victory in the Tour of Flanders earlier this month, will be one of the outstanding favourites. She will take the start alongside Belgian teammate Jolien D’hoore, who will proudly wear the World Cup Leader’s Jersey in the second of her country’s events in...
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