Birthday Girl Jolien D’hoore Wins the Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Jolien D’hoore celebrated the occasion of her 25th birthday with victory in the Boels Rentals Ronde van Drenthe, the opening round of the 2015 UCI Women’s Road World Cup, in Hoogeveen, Netherlands. The Belgian Champion was expertly delivered to the finishing straight by a lead out from teammates Chloe Hosking, Audrey Cordon-Ragot and Elisa Longo Borghini at the end of a fascinating 138km race that saw several breakaway groups get away. Amy Pieters (Liv-Plantur) finished second, with Ellen van Dijk (Boels-Dolmans)...
read moreGiorgia Bronzini Wins Drentse 8 In Breakaway Sprint
Giorgia Bronzini took Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s second victory in five days as she won the Molecaten Drentse 8 van Westerveld in Dwingeloo, Netherlands, in a sprint from a group of seven riders. The former two-time road World Champion was by far the fastest of the breakaway that arrived at the finish at the end of the 138km race, beating Valentina Scandolara (Orica-AIS) and Annemiek van Vleuten (Bigla) into second and third. “I told the girls that I wasn’t feeling so good today, because of my wrist and I have a cold, so I would work for...
read moreJolien D’hoore takes first victory of 2015 in Omloop van het Hageland
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Jolien D’hoore took the team’s first victory of 2015 – and her first ever for the black and orange team – in the Omloop van hat Hageland, in Tielt-Winge, to the east of Brussels, with a dominant sprint over a group of eleven riders. The Belgian champion had plenty of time to sit up and show her black, yellow and red driekleur jersey as she crossed the line several lengths clear of Chantal Blaak (Boels-Dolmans) in second place, with Sara Mustonen (Liv-Plantur) just behind the Dutch rider in third. Wiggle...
read moreElisa Longo Borghini Takes Third Place In First Ever Women’s Strade Bianche
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Elisa Longo Borghini took an excellent third place in the first ever edition of the Women’s Strade Bianche, across the unmade white roads of Tuscany. The 23-year-old Italian was just beaten to the line, in Siena’s historic Piazza del Campo, by Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans) as they raced for second place, 37 seconds behind Armitstead’s teammate Megan Guarnier’s solo victory. “I’m really happy with this race,” Logo Borghini said. “The team worked really well until the longest section of gravel. They managed to put...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling Ready For The First Women’s Strade Bianche
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s athletes are ready to race in Saturday’s inaugural edition of the Strade Bianche for women, which is almost certain to be one of the most prestigious and spectacular events of the season. Despite only having been run since 2007, the Strade Bianche has already taken on something of a Classic status thanks to the beautiful Tuscan landscape that it crosses, and the way it harks back to the Golden Age of cycling. The 103km race will depart from the Piazza Duomo in the iconic Medieval hilltop town of San Gimignano, with...
read moreFourth and Fifth for Hosking and D’hoore at Le Samyn des Dames
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Chloe Hosking and Jolien D’hoore finished fourth and fifth respectively in Le Samyn des Dames, a 112km race close to Mons, Belgium, in the French-speaking Walloon province. The race finished in a bunch sprint, won by Chantal Blaak (Boels-Dolmans), ahead of Anna van der Breggen (Rabo-Liv) and Emma Johansson (Orica-AIS), but only after a six-rider group that included Hosking was chased down inside the final kilometres. “It was a good race for the team,” Belgian Champion D’hoore explained. “We were very aggressive; we...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling Belgian Training Camp: Day 4
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is in Ghent, Flanders, for the first training camp of the year, with the aim of welcoming the new riders to the black and orange team, and having some fun, along with the serious business of preparing for the season ahead. Day four was to be the day that the team was officially presented to the World, with an invited crowd of sponsors and journalists attending the launch at Ghent’s Monasterium PoortAckere. Each rider was introduced individually, along with the newly designed kit that the riders have been wearing...
read moreWiggle Honda has D’hoore and Longo Borghini cards to play in the Omloop
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling will line up at the start of Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in Ghent, Belgium, with two big cards to play in the form of Belgian Champion Jolien D’hoore and Italian Elisa Longo Borghini. The 120km race forms part of the Flemish “Openingsweekend,” which sets the Northern Classics season in motion. Ghent local D’hoore rode last week’s UCI Track World Championships, having competed in the Tour of Qatar earlier in February, but is reasonably confident about her form as she heads into her home race. “I really don’t know...
read moreWiggle Honda aiming to be the Number One Team in the World in Third Year
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling was presented to an invited group of media and team partners at the Monasterium PoortAckere, a converted monastery, in Ghent, Belgium with the stated ambition of finishing the 2015 season at the top of the UCI Rankings. 14 of the black and orange team’s 15-rider roster were present to officially launch the new jersey, complete with main sponsor Wiggle’s new logo design. “Our aim for the season is to end the year as the number one team in the World,” said Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Team Manager Rochelle Gilmore. “The...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling Belgian Training Camp: Day 3
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is in Ghent, Flanders, for the first training camp of the year, with the aim of welcoming the new riders to the black and orange team, and having some fun, along with the serious business of preparing for the season ahead. Chloe Hosking drills it on the Molenberg; the final climb of Saturday’s race After the mostly fun events of the camp so far, day three got serious with a team reconnaissance of the course of Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Similar weather to yesterday’s ride, along with the far more challenging...
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