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Strade Bianche Donne
The Strade Bianche Donne (Strade Bianche Women), also named Strade Bianche Rosa by Italian media, is an annual professional women's road bicycle racing event in Tuscany, Italy. Roughly a quarter of the route is raced on white gravel roads – unpaved country lanes winding through the countryside of the Chianti region – from which the event gets its name. The race finishes in the Piazza del Campo in Siena.
First held in 2015, the race is part of the UCI Women's World Tour, cycling's top-tier female elite competition. It is organized on the same day as the men's race, on the first or second Saturday of March, on much of the same roads but at a shorter distance. Dutch riders Annemiek van Vleuten and Demi Vollering and Belgian rider Lotte Kopecky have each won two editions of the race.
The first women's Strade Bianche was organized in 2015, following the success of the men's event, which was created in 2007. The inaugural edition was won by American Megan Guarnier after distancing her teammate Lizzie Armitstead and Italian Elisa Longo Borghini during the final stretches of the race.
In 2016, the event was upgraded to UCI World Tour level, the highest level of international women's cycling. Britain's Lizzie Armitstead won the race in the rainbow jersey as ruling world road champion. Elisa Longo Borghini won the third edition in 2017, becoming the first Italian winner of the Strade Bianche.
The 2018 race was run in abysmal weather, with cold temperatures and heavy rainfall making the gravel roads exceptionally muddy. Ruling Olympic road race champion Anna van der Breggen won the edition after a 17 km solo attack. Van der Breggen held a one-minute lead on Poland's Kasia Niewiadoma, who finished second for the third consecutive year. Only 59 of 136 starters finished the race and 17 women arrived outside of the time limit.
The 2020 edition of the race was postponed to August due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, Dutch rider Demi Vollering outsprinted her SD Worx teammate Lotte Kopecky at the finish to win the race.
By the mid 2020s, media discussed the possibility of the race being elevated to a "cycling monument" in future.
The Strade Bianche starts and finishes in Siena, crossing the southern half of the province of Siena in Tuscany. The race is run over 136 kilometres (85 mi) on undulating terrain and is characterized by the presence of white gravel roads; unpaved country lanes winding through the hills and vineyards of the Chianti region. There are sectors of gravel in varying lengths and difficulty, with the 2025 edition of the race featuring 50 kilometres (31 mi) of dirt roads.
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Strade Bianche Donne
The Strade Bianche Donne (Strade Bianche Women), also named Strade Bianche Rosa by Italian media, is an annual professional women's road bicycle racing event in Tuscany, Italy. Roughly a quarter of the route is raced on white gravel roads – unpaved country lanes winding through the countryside of the Chianti region – from which the event gets its name. The race finishes in the Piazza del Campo in Siena.
First held in 2015, the race is part of the UCI Women's World Tour, cycling's top-tier female elite competition. It is organized on the same day as the men's race, on the first or second Saturday of March, on much of the same roads but at a shorter distance. Dutch riders Annemiek van Vleuten and Demi Vollering and Belgian rider Lotte Kopecky have each won two editions of the race.
The first women's Strade Bianche was organized in 2015, following the success of the men's event, which was created in 2007. The inaugural edition was won by American Megan Guarnier after distancing her teammate Lizzie Armitstead and Italian Elisa Longo Borghini during the final stretches of the race.
In 2016, the event was upgraded to UCI World Tour level, the highest level of international women's cycling. Britain's Lizzie Armitstead won the race in the rainbow jersey as ruling world road champion. Elisa Longo Borghini won the third edition in 2017, becoming the first Italian winner of the Strade Bianche.
The 2018 race was run in abysmal weather, with cold temperatures and heavy rainfall making the gravel roads exceptionally muddy. Ruling Olympic road race champion Anna van der Breggen won the edition after a 17 km solo attack. Van der Breggen held a one-minute lead on Poland's Kasia Niewiadoma, who finished second for the third consecutive year. Only 59 of 136 starters finished the race and 17 women arrived outside of the time limit.
The 2020 edition of the race was postponed to August due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, Dutch rider Demi Vollering outsprinted her SD Worx teammate Lotte Kopecky at the finish to win the race.
By the mid 2020s, media discussed the possibility of the race being elevated to a "cycling monument" in future.
The Strade Bianche starts and finishes in Siena, crossing the southern half of the province of Siena in Tuscany. The race is run over 136 kilometres (85 mi) on undulating terrain and is characterized by the presence of white gravel roads; unpaved country lanes winding through the hills and vineyards of the Chianti region. There are sectors of gravel in varying lengths and difficulty, with the 2025 edition of the race featuring 50 kilometres (31 mi) of dirt roads.