ŠKODA V-Women’s Tour | Stage One Preview
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17 Jun 2020
The ŠKODA V-Women’s Tour gets underway at 19:00 on Wednesday 17 June with a largely flat opening stage finishing in Bury St Edmunds.
The ŠKODA V-Women’s Tour gets underway at 19:00 on Wednesday 17 June with a largely flat opening stage finishing in Bury St Edmunds.
The chosen route replicates the final 38.4 kilometres of the final stage from the inaugural Women’s Tour in May 2014, when Marianne Vos completed a hat trick of stage wins as she won the first Tour (pictured below)
While many of the riders involved that day have retired from the sport or aren’t taking part, Lucy van der Haar (nee Garner) was up there contesting the bunch sprint on her way to seventh overall and the Best British Rider jersey, and will be pulling on the virtual jersey of Hitec Products – Birk Sport in this week’s ŠKODA V-Women’s Tour.
You can watch a fly through of the route using Relive here or find out more about Stage One below.
Fact File
- 38.4km
- 311m ascent
- 19:00 BST, Wednesday 17 June, Watch LIVE here
- Rider List
Ride with Us
Stage One is available on RGT Cycling Open Roads between Thursday 18 and Saturday 20 June. Group Rides and Fan Races three times during Thursday 18 June from 07:00. Find out more here.
Did you know?
As well as Lucy van der Haar, five other riders who finished Stage Five in Bury St Edmunds back in May 2014 will also be racing this week: Alice Maria Arzuffi (Bizkaia Durango); Katie Hall (Boels Dolmans); Shara Marche (FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope); Jo Tindley (CAMS-Tifosi); and Ruth Winder (Trek-Segafredo) are the others.
