Jolien D’hoore: “I want to pay tribute to what happened in Brussels”
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Jolien D’hoore will be wearing her Belgian Champion’s jersey with pride in Sunday’s Gent-Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, which will be the next round of the Women’s WorldTour. The event is one of the big events of the Spring Classics season, and has been named in tribute to those that fell in the region in the First World War; D’hoore will be also racing in tribute to others this weekend, however, after the horrific events in the Belgian capital on Tuesday. “I want to pay tribute to what happened in Brussels,”...
read moreAmy Pieters wins third straight Dwars door Vlaanderen in Wiggle High5 one-two
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Amy Pieters won her third consecutive edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen, in Waregem, West Flanders, even after the peloton had caught the 13-rider group that she had been part of. Belgian Champion Jolien D’hoore completed a one-two for the black and orange squad on an emotional day for her country, while 2015 Wiggle Honda rider Eileen Roe (Lares-Waowdeals) completed the podium in third place. “The race was good. I think we did a good job as a team,” Pieters explained. “We all rode well as a team. After the...
read moreEmma Johansson just inches from Trofeo Binda Podium
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Emma Johansson came within just a few inches of the podium of the Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Comune di Cittiglio this afternoon, as came down to a fight between just eight riders. The race, run just to the north of the city of Varese, was the third in the 2016 Women’s World Tour, and was won by World Champion Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans) as she chased across to lone attacker Jolanda Neff (Servetto-Footon) in the closing kilometres. Armitstead’s teammate, Megan Guarnier was able to sprint past Neff to take...
read moreEmma Johansson: “Binda is always a nice race because it has a bit of everything”
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling will be led by former winner Emma Johansson in Sunday’s Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, which will be race three in the new Women’s World Tour. Johansson won the 2014 edition of the race, which was then a World Cup, as she outsprinted a group of eight riders on the uphill finishing straight. Unfortunately, Elisa Longo Borghini, who won what was an epic 2013 edition through some of the worst weather seen by the professional peloton in many years, has been forced to sit the race out through illness. “Binda is...
read moreJolien D’hoore: “I will try to make Drenthe as awesome as last year”
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Belgian Champion Jolien D’hoore will make her debut on the road this season in Saturday’s Ronde van Drenthe in Hoogeveen, Netherlands. The 25-year-old celebrated her birthday in style in last year’s edition of the race, with her first ever victory in the road World Cup. The World Cup has been replaced by the Women’s World Tour in 2016, and the Ronde van Drenthe will be the second event in the new season-long competition. “I’m really looking forward to join my teammates again on the road,” D’hoore said. “Maybe the...
read moreJohansson and Longo Borghini third and fourth in Strade Bianche
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Emma Johansson and Elisa Longo Borghini took third and fourth places respectively in today’s second edition of the Strade Bianche, in the iconic Piazza del Campo, in the centre of the beautiful, historic Tuscan city of Siena. The 121km race, which was the first ever event in the Women’s WorldTour, was won by World Champion Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans) with an attack in the final, steep kilometre into the centre of Siena, ahead of European Champion Kasia Niewiadoma (Rabo-Liv). Swedish Champion Johansson was just...
read moreElisa Longo Borghini: “I’m excited and delighted to race Strade Bianche”
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Elisa Longo Borghini is looking forward to leading the black and orange team in Saturday’s second edition of the Strade Bianche. The Italian race, which takes in the White Roads – as well as some of the most spectacular scenery – of Italy’s Tuscany region, will be an historic one in a number of ways; most notably that it will be the first ever event in the first ever Women’s World Tour. “I’m excited and delighted to race Strade Bianche,” Longo Borghini said. “It’s the first Women’s WorldTour...
read moreJohansson and Pieters second and third in tough Le Samyn race
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Emma Johansson and Amy Pieters finished second and third respectively in Le Samyn, in Dour, in the French-speaking Walloon region of Belgium. Swedish Champion Johansson was just unable to overcome 2015 winner Chantal Blaak (Boels-Dolmans) in a two-up sprint for the line, while Pieters was able to take the sprint for third place at the head of a group, 14 seconds later. “It was pretty good,” Johansson said. “We were all there in the front in the crosswind, with the whole team, but then it went into a tail-cross, and...
read moreEdmondson and D’hoore go head to head in UCI Track World Championships
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Nettie Edmondson and Jolien D’hoore are set to go head to head at the UCI Track World Championships at the Lea Valley VeloPark, London, this weekend. Riding in the colours of Australia, Edmondson will be battling to retain her World titles in both the Team Pursuit and Omnium, on the boards where she took her Olympic Silver Medal almost four years ago, while D’hoore will be riding in search of her first senior rainbow as both riders focus their aim on Rio 2016. Having taken Australian National titles in both the...
read moreEmma Johansson: “Classics. Cobbles. Strong team. It’s going to be good!”
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling is ready to begin its European season on Saturday with the traditional Belgian “Openingsweekend” race of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. The 123.8km race, which is – like many other Belgian Classics – run alongside the equivalent men’s event, takes in many of the legendary cobbles and hills of Flanders. The black and orange team will line up at the start in Ghent with two previous winners, in 2016 recruits Emma Johansson and Amy Pieters, along with 2015 Tour of Flanders winner Elisa Longo Borghini. “Obviously I...
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