Giorgia Bronzini Takes Second Place In Chongming Island World Cup
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini won the bunch sprint for second place in the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup race after the peloton was sent the wrong way in the closing kilometres and so was unable to catch a lone breakaway rider. Ukrainian Tetyana Riabchenko (Chirio Forno d’Asolo) had escaped with just over 15km to go, and was being hunted down by a strong chase from Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling when the entire peloton was forced to stop. By the time the bunch got started again Riabchenko had built up an unassailable lead and,...
read moreFifth Place For Giorgia Bronzini In Final Chongming Island Tour Stage
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini took fifth place in a hectic bunch sprint at the end of the third and final stage of the Tour of Chongming Island at Shanghai East Beach. The former two-time World road champion was just unable to repeat her stunning victory from the previous day as the sprinters fanned out in the final dash for the line. Commonwealth champion Rochelle Gilmore also sprinted to tenth place, to put two Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling riders in the top ten. “It’s not the result that we wanted,” admitted Wiggle Honda Pro...
read moreBronzini sprints to victory in a rainy second stage of the Chongming Island Tour
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini put the disappointment of the previous day’s eleventh place well and truly behind her with an emphatic sprint victory in the second stage of the Tour of Chongming Island in Chongxi. The former two-time World road champion, who was almost brought down by a crash in the final two kilometres of stage one, found a clear path to the line this time and powered past of Chloe Hosking (Hitec Products) to win by almost a bike length. Annette Edmondson (Orica-AIS) – who was the rider to have been...
read moreBronzini held up by late crash in opening stage of Chongming Island Tour
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini managed to salvage eleventh place in the first stage of the Tour of Chongming Island after almost being taken down in a crash in the final two kilometres. The former two-time road World champion had positioned herself well near the front of the peloton, but the rider in front of her was taken out by a wayward rider and Bronzini was lucky not to have also been brought down. “There was a crash at one of the intermediate sprints, and then one close to the finish, but luckily none of our riders were...
read moreGiorgia Bronzini victorious in Knokke-Heist to Bredene race
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini sprinted to victory once again in the Knokke-Heist to Bredene race, the second round of the Lotto Cycling Cup, on a windy day on Belgium’s North Sea coast. The two-time World road champion was delivered into the headwind finishing straight by a dominant display from her teammates, giving her the perfect launchpad to take her third win of the season so far. Second place went to Belgian champion Jolien D’hoore (Lotto-Belisol), with Martina Zwick (Koga Ladies) third. “It was windy in the final...
read moreJoanna Rowsell, Laura Trott and Dani King to race in IG London Nocturne
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is delighted to announce that Olympic champions Joanna Rowsell, Laura Trott and Dani King will compete in the Elite Women’s Criterium at the IG London Nocturne on Saturday 8th June, where they will race in the strongest-ever elite women’s field at Smithfield Market in London in less than six weeks’ time. British fans who attend the Nocturne will be hugely excited at the chance to see a trio of British medal winners compete on the streets of London, rather than the Olympic Velodrome, after their...
read moreGiorgia Bronzini second on final stage and overall Elsy Jacobs
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Girogia Bronzini was narrowly beaten into second place in the second and final stage of the Festival Luxembourgeois du Cyclisme Féminin Elsy Jacobs, in Mamer, Luxembourg. Having been beaten in the sprint the previous day, World and Olympic champion Marianne Vos (Rabobank-Liv/Giant) attacked into the final bend with half a kilometre to go, and managed to hold off the rest of the peloton all the way to the line. Former two-time World road champion Bronzini outsprinted the rest, just a few lengths behind Vos, ahead of...
read moreGiorgia Bronzini wins tough, attritional first stage of Elsy Jacobs
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini sprinted to victory at the head of a 20-strong group of riders, which was all that remained of the peloton, at the end of an attritional first stage of the Festival Luxembourgeois du Cyclisme Féminin Elsy Jacobs, in Garnich, Luxembourg. The two-time road World champion beat South African champion Ashleigh Moolman (Lotto-Belisol), and Polish champion Katarzyna Pawlowska (GSD Gestion-Kallisto) into second and third, with current World champion Marianne Vos (Rabobank-Liv/Giant) fourth. The 102.6km...
read moreLaura Trott fourth in rainy Elsy Jacobs prologue time trial
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Laura Trott took fourth place in the prologue time trial of the Festival Luxembourgeois du Cyclisme Féminin Elsy Jacobs in the pouring rain of Mamer, Luxembourg. The double Olympic champion, who celebrated her 21st birthday just two days before, completed the 1.8km course in a time of two minutes and 33 seconds, at an average speed of 42.353kph, to finish just four seconds outside the time of winner Annemiek van Vleuten (Rabobank-Liv/Giant). With heavy rain falling throughout the day, and the risk of crashing high,...
read moreLauren Kitchen strong again in Dwars door de Westhoek race
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Lauren Kitchen finished safely at the front end of the peloton at the end of the Dwars door de Westhoek, in Boezinge, near Ypres, West Flanders, but preferred not to take too many risks in the sprint so soon after recovering from illness. The 124.7km race was made up of a 79km loop, followed by four laps of an 11.6km circuit and finished in a mass bunch sprint. “Lauren came to me and said she felt terrible at the beginning but came around towards the end, but the sprint was just chaotic so she backed out of it a...
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