Jul 6, 2016

Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Mara Abbott took a stunning solo victory in the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile, as the race took on the fearsome Mortirolo. The two-time race winner escaped the peloton on the steep slopes of the climb, and opened a gap of almost five minutes over the Pink Jersey group; despite a crash on the technical plateau before the...

Jul 3, 2016

Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Elisa Longo Borghini came within just a few metres of victory in the second stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile, between Tarcento and the uphill finish at Montenars. The Italian Time Trial Champion was narrowly beaten to the line by Evelyn Stevens (Boels-Dolmans), who only managed to squeeze past in the final metres, while Polish...

Jul 2, 2016

Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini won the opening road stage of the 2016 Giro d’Italia Femminile, between Gaiarine and San Fior, in a sprint from a select breakaway group. The former two-time road World Champion outpaced US Champion Megan Guarnier (Boels-Dolmans) in the race for the line, with Lithuanian Rasa Leleivyte (Aromitalia Vaiano) third after...

Jul 1, 2016

Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Elisa Longo Borghini was the black and orange team’s best finisher in the opening prologue of the Giro Rosa, with a solid twelfth place. The newly-crowned Italian Time Trial Champion completed the short, flat, two kilometre course, in Gaiarine, in the province of Treviso, in a time of two minutes, 29 seconds, just six seconds behind...

Jul 1, 2016

Luglio è alle porte e questo mese per me sarà davvero impegnativo. Mi aspettano due corse a tappe lunghe ed impegnative come il Giro Rosa – dall’1 al 10 – e il Thüringen Rundfahrt – dal 15 al 21-. Solamente due anni fa ho fatto due gare così simili in tempi così ristretti, ma quest’anno non partiró per fare la classifica generale...