2016 Strade Bianche Women

2016 Strade Bianche Donne

2016 UCI Women's World Tour, race 1 of 17
Race details
Dates	5 March 2016
Stages	1
Distance	121 km (75.19 mi)
Winning time	3h 30' 13"
Results
Winner  Lizzie Armitstead (GBR) (Boels–Dolmans)   Second  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL) (Rabo–Liv)   Third  Emma Johansson (SWE) (Wiggle High5)
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The second edition of the women's Strade Bianche was held on 5 March 2016, in Tuscany, Italy. British world champion Lizzie Armitstead won the race, in bad weather, ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Emma Johansson.^[1]

The women's Strade Bianche served as the first event of the inaugural UCI Women's World Tour, the highest level of professional women's cycling.^[2][3] The race is organized on the same day as the men's event, at a shorter distance, but on much of the same roads.^[3]

The Strade Bianche is a one day cycling race starting in and finishing in Siena,^[3] notorious for its long sections of white gravel roads (sterrati or strade bianche in Italian). The course runs over hilly terrain in the province of Siena, for a total of 121 km, featuring seven sectors and 22.4 km of dirt roads.^[3][4] Six sectors were in common with the men's route.^[5] The race finished on Siena's Piazza del Campo, after a narrow ascent on the roughly-paved Via Santa Caterina in the heart of the medieval city.

Result

Rank	Rider	Team	Time
1	Lizzie Armitstead (GBR)	Boels–Dolmans	3h 30' 13"
2	Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)	Rabo–Liv	+ 3"
3	Emma Johansson (SWE)	Wiggle High5	+ 13"
4	Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)	Wiggle High5	+ 1' 04"
5	Anna van der Breggen (NED)	Rabo–Liv	+ 1' 07"
6	Megan Guarnier (USA)	Boels–Dolmans	+ 1' 07"
7	Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)	Orica–AIS	+ 1' 13"
8	Claudia Lichtenberg (GER)	Lotto–Soudal Ladies	+ 1' 17"
9	Lauren Kitchen (AUS)	Team Hitec Products	+ 1' 17"
10	Leah Kirchmann (CAN)	Team Liv–Plantur	+ 1' 21"

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