Welcome to our live coverage of Gent-Wevelꦅgem🔜 women

T🅘he riders have set off from Ypres for the neutral start 

The first 9.8 km are neutralised. 

There is the potential for some wind today which could split the race, especially from the Kemmelberg where it is rep♔orted that there could be a strong cross/tailwind. Teams will need to be on high alert but pre-race favourite, Lorena Wiebes, has already shown her capabilities in the crosswinds so far this season at UAE Tour Women last month. 

We already have two non-starters today, both from from Visma | Lease a bike: Linda Riedmann and ꧅Margaux Vigié did not start the race. 

We've already mentioned 🌃pre-race൲ favourite, Lorena Wiebes, who won this race in 2024: The European Champion is looking for her 100th career victory today, just a few days after securing her 99th at Brugge-De Panne on Thursday. Can the SD Worx - Protime rider take back-to-back wins and round up that career win tally today? 

If Thursday's race is anything to go by then the rider most likely to stand in Wiebes' way, should the race culminate in a sprint, is Canyon//SRAM - zondacrypto's new signing, Chiara Consonni. The Italian rider lookedꦯ closest to Wiebes in speed in De Panne, taking second place -- can she go one better today?  

Lidl-Trek worked hard all day for their sprinter, Elisa Balsamo, on Thursday but the former World Champion was unable to finish the jo🍨b. She will be hopiꦇng to rectify that today. 

This race doesn't always go the way of the sprinters, however, and there will be plenty looking for a long-range move including UAE Team ADQ's Elisa Longo Borghini. The Italian♏ champion narrowly missed out on Sanremo Women last weekend and will be hoping for a mo🐽ve to stick today. 

More on the favourites for today's race here. 

Official start

The flag is dropped an𒅌d the riders are off for the official start of the race!

Footage of the riders setting off from Ypres eജarl𒁏ier. 

Breakaway

A breakaway has already established: 

Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Health), Beatrice Caudera (BePink - Imatra - Bongioanni) and Britt de Grave (DD Group Pro Cycling Team𓆉) have a gap of 25 seconds ahead of the peloton. 

The three leaders have exten𝔉ded their lead to 42 second💃s already. It looks like the peloton are happy to let this breakaway go. 

There has been a counter move from Maaike Boogaard of VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling Team and 🐈Franziska Brauße of Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team. They are 34 seconds behind the three leaders.

The two chasers🌞 have now joined u꧃p with the three leaders. 

Meanwhile, we have two more chasers in the form of Mia Griffin of Roland and Cleo Kiekens of DD Group Pro Cycling Team. The gap to the peloton is getting sma♋ller, is the front group becoming too big for their liking? 

Breakaway

To recap, the leaders are: 

Katia Ragusa of Human Powered Health, Beatrice Caudera ofBePink - Imatra - Bongioanni, Britt de Grave and Cleo Kiekens of DD Group Pro Cyಌcling Team, Maaike Boogaard of VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling Team and Franziska Brauße of Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team,and Mia Griffin of Roland. Their advantage is now 40 seconds. 

The peloton have sat up and seem content to let this move go. The gap is now 2🐲'07"

145 km to go

The gap between the breakaway a🐎nd the peloton is now 3'38"

Meanwhile, 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:over in the men's race there is echelon action kicking off with 95 km to go. Is this a sign of things t💛o come for the women later on? 

4'09" now for the seven leaders. 

The gap is starting to com☂e down, the leaders now have a 3'37" advantage over the pelo🙈ton which is being led by SD Worx - Protime.

130 km to go

In 17 km the break will reach the first cobbled sector of the day, the Beauvoordestraat🏅. 

The gap between the breakaway and the pe🐲loton has increased again to ꦏ4'28"

The gap has reduced again to 3'42".

117 km to go

The breakaway is in De Moe🍎ren and will soon reach the first cobbles of the day, Beauvoordestraat 

Crash

A crash in the peloton has caused splits.

The peloton is split with a front group of a🥀round 35 riders 

Nienke Veenhoven of Team Visma 🌸| Lease a Bike has abandoned the race following the c🅘rash. 

It looks like the second part of the peloton will catch up t🦋o the first.&💜nbsp;

Just a few ki🌼lometres to𓂃 go until the cobbles of Beauvoordestraat 

The gap between the first part of the p♒eloton and the break is now just 1'48". 

10 seconds between the first and second part of the ♊peloton. 

Peloton back together.

The two groups are now back together. 

1'45" now for the breakaway of seven. 

The break are now on Beauvoordestraat

The pace is high in the pe🌸loton, the lead for the seven breakaway riders is still 1'50" 

The 𒆙third group that split after the crash is now back up to the p꧟eloton.

But not for long, we have more echelons 

100 km to go

T♏he peloto🔯n is back together. The gap to the breakaway is 1'53".

Bike change 𝓰for Le♋tizia Borghesi of EF - Education - Oatly. 

86 km to go

The gap to the breakawa🎃y is 1'40" and we are n🍒ot too far away from the hilly section of this race now. 

There has been an injection of pace and gap is down to 1'14"💛 now as some riders are also gett❀ing dropped from the peloton. 

All together

The break have been caught. The r📖ace is back together!

Bike change for Alison Jackson (ཧEF ♏Education-Oatly) 

The race is on the Scherpenberg climb. 

Crash

Crash in the peloton for two riders.

70 km to go

One of the riders involved in the crash was Elisa Longo Borghini howevไer she is back on her bike and back🥂 in the bunch. 

The peloton are 5 km away from the 🍌Baneberg climb.

UAE Team ADQ, Fenix-Deceuinck, and Uno-X - Mobili💜ty lead th♐e peloton. 

100 km completed

At🔜tack 🦋from Amber Kraak of FDJ SUEZ on the Baneberg

Elisa Longo Borghini is caught out towards the bac💙k&nꦚbsp;

Amber Kraak still leads the pelo🍃tonꦅ over the top of the climb.

The race is strung out 

Attack

Justine Ghekiere of AG Insurance - Soudal ꦗattac🍰ks 

Ghekiere is brought back

Anna He🗹nderson of Lidl-Trek leads the peloton 

Small split 

Back together 

SD Wo꧙rx - Protime have come to the front with🍸 Marta Lach, Lorena Wiebes on her wheel. 

60 km to go

Crash

Crash in the peloton 

Canadian Champion Olivia Baril of Movistar and Ally Wollas✤t🤡on of FDJ SUEZ are involved 

The riders are on the Kemmelberg. Anna 𓃲Henderson of Lidl-Trek leads. 

Lotte Koecky attacks, taking Henderson, Elise Chabbe𝓰y and Letizia Borghesi with her.

Lorena wiebes has madꦇe the front split over the top of the Kemmelberg

Charlott🅠e Kool finds herself behind, as does Elisa Longo Borghini

Anna Henderson is on the front of tꦦhe leading group as they aim to maintain thei🏅r advantage. 

Elisa Longo Borghini leads the chase group 

The front group: 

Kopecky, Wiebes, and Mischa Bredewold of SD Worx - Protime, Henderson, Elisa Balsamo and Lucinda Brand of Lidl-Trek, Elise Chabbey of  FDJ SUEZ, Letizia Borghesi of EF Oatly - Caꩲnnondale, Giada Borghesi of Human Powered Health, Chloe Dygert of Canyon//SRAM - zondacrypto and Margot Vanpachtenbeke of VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling ꦰTeam. 

The꧃ chase group, led by Elisa Longo Borghini, have caught u꧑p to the front group. 

ಌThe next climb is the Scherpenberg in just ovཧer 2 km. 

Attack from Emma Norsgaard of Lidl -Trek 

Norsgaard is brought back and her teammate, Ellen va𝔍n Dijk, counters. 

♕Another Li🍌dl-Trek attack, this time from Lauretta Hanson who gets a small gap. 

50 km to go

Bredewol🙈d of SD Worx - Protime le꧅ads the chase behind Hanson.

A small group has formed off the front. 

Crash

Cat Ferguson of Movis𝄹tar has crashed out of the front group 

Another attack from Ellen van Dijk 

Crash

Crash for Elena Cecchi♑ni of SD Worx - Protime 

Echelons! 

A few splits formed but the reduced gr꧃oup is all back together. 

Lucinda Brand attacks for Lidl-Trek and is joined by Alexandra Manly of 🦩AG Insurance - Soudal 

A small group has gone clear 

Manly, Brand, Mischa Bredewold of SD Worx - Protime, Jeanne Korevaar o🔯f Liv AlUla Jayco, Marta Jaskulska of Ceratizit, and Anneke Dijkstra of VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling Team.

The leading six have a gap of 15 seconds 

The gap is now 26 seconds as Canyon//SRAM - zondacrypto lead the chase behind with Sor﷽aya Paladin 

The leading group have reached the Baneberg

Just 9 seconds now for the leaders 

The lead g🦹roup don't sꦏeem to be pushing too hard at the moment 

Luc🐼inda Brand comes to the front towards the top of t🃏he climb

Back together 

The peloton is strung out 

38 km to go

Mischa Bredewold brinꩲ🍸gs Lorena Wiebes to the front of the group 

Lidl-Trek are riding on the front 

Liv AlUla Jayco come to the front 

Lotte Kopecky attacks from the bottom of the Kem🦋melberg 

Huge split over the top of the Kemmelberg 

Lo🎀tte Ko🎃pecky, Lorena Wiebes, and Elisa Longo Borghini go clear 

Letizia Borghesi and Chloe Dyger🐓t join the leading trio  

Anna Hen💛derson and Christina Schweinbe💟rger are just behind

Behꦍind Henderson and Schweinberger Ellen van Dijk leads a chasing group containing Elisa Balsamo 

ꦜW🔜orld Champion Lotte Kopecky is on the front of the lead group 

12 secondဣs is the gap between the lead🌟ers and the chasers

Lorena Wiebes attacks from the front group 

Longo Borghini closes the gap 

The front gr𒈔oup are 🌌now working together but the gap is down to just 8 seconds 

Lidl-Trek are closing the༒ gap to the leadin♌g group 

The pace has gone out of the front group

26 km to go

Attack from Daniek Hengveld of WNT 

Kopecky closes 

Lidl-Trek take to the front of the peloton 

Chiara Consonni is back at the team car 

Attack from a rider from Volkerwessels 

Mischa Bredewold of SD Worx - Protime chases

The peloton are passing through Ypres 

Lotte Kopecky is towards the back of the pelot﷽on 

The rid𒐪ers are passing under the Menin Gate Memorial where the race started earlier today. 

A𝓀lison Jackson of EF Education - Oatl🔴y leads the second group 

20 km to go

L💫idl - Trek, Liv AlUla Jayco and Pfeiffer Georgi of Team Picnic PostNL♛ set a high pace at the front 

Lotte Kopecky now comes to the front 

It's a tailwind towards the finish now 

There's not much pace in this group now. Many of the teams 🐓will be looking for a sprint, but will we see others go for a long-range attack? 

Riders are chatting amongst each other 

Anneke Dijkstra and Eline Jansen and VolkerWessels Women🍷's Pro Cycling Team attack 

The pair are brought♐ back as the chase group make the juncture to the front group 

Floortje Mackaij of Movistar attacks 

Elena Cecchini of SD Worx ProTime come♒s to the front of📖 the group alongside teammate Marta Lach 

10 km to go

Looks like we are heading towards a bunch sprint. Can Lorena Wiebe♏s take her 100th win today? 

SD Worx -𝓡 Protime are lined out at the front keeping the pace high 

It's still SD Worx Protime on the front with Lidl-Trek bꦐehind leading into the final 7 km&nb🧸sp;

The whole SD W𒈔orx - Protime team are lined out in front i𝐆ncluding Wiebes and Kopecky

Behind, other teams such as Picnic PostNL appear to be struggling to orꦦganise themselves. 

Human Powered Health are coming towards t🅷he front as are Liv AlUla Jayco 

AG Insurance - Soudal come to the front 

5 km to go

Megan Jastrab of Picnic PostNL leads

SD Worꦆx Protime have been somewhat swamped by Picnic PostNL and AG Insuran🏅ce Soudal 

AG Iജnsurance 𝐆- Soudal, Picnic PostNL, Liv AlUla Jayco and SD Worx Protime are lined out at the front 

3 km to go

2 km to go

Teams are looking to line up t♎heir sprinters 

Team Picnic PostNL are looking organꦯise🗹d, SD Worx Protime less so

It's down to ju🦋st Kopecky and Wiebes for SD Worx Protime ♑with the World Champion getting ready to lead the European Champion out 

1 km to go

Kopecky is right at the front with ꦐWiebes on her whe🐎el 

Kopecky is powering towards the♈ finish to lead out her teamma𝓀te

Chloe Dyget brings Consonni up in th🥃e middle for Canyon//SRAM 

Finish

Lorena Wiebes takes the win! Her 1💛00th cಌareer victory 

Elisa Balsamo of Lidl-Trek takes second

Charlotte Kool of Picnic PostNL takes third 

Top-10

Interview

Lorena Wiebes: 

It looked easy for her on the Kemmelberg

"It felt good, and then we were with a small group in front but the cooperatio🏅n was not so good so the group came back."

Nobo൩dy wanted to take her to the finish? "Yes, we e💧xpected that already." 

Talk us through the sprint:

"I knew that I had Lotte in the final and we chose to do only me and Lotte. The other girls did an amazing job with pulling before. She wentr eally🍷 long with the leadout so at one point I said 'ok I start now'." 

"I am very very happy, you always want to win and every time it works out it's fantastic. Lotte was super important she could do whatever she wanted on the climbs."&n💖bsp;

"We knew we had to go for a bunch sprint, that🎉 was the plan. The other girls kept the pace high and Lotte did the leadout. I can trust her completely, I just had to follow her. She was all the time with her head in the wind and did a fantastic leadout for me."

Is she confident going into Flanders?

"I hope to be there still iꦍn the final 🌺and I can help the team." 

Not for her own ambitions?

"I don't think so. There's no expectations from me to do something like this in the Tour of Flanders, Lotte will be the leader ✃and we will have more cards to play."

Interview

Elisa Balsamo

"In this period she [Wiebes] is rea🍨lly strong. She is the strongest now but I am quite satisfied about my sprint. Of course we are always racing to win but also a podium of an important race like this is also good."

L🎀orena Wiebes went long, were you surprised? 

"No, I know she is real♕ly strong so she can do a long sprint. I just t🌳ried to do the best sprint I could and it was not enough."

Is she happy? 

"Yes, I think as a team we were really aggressive, unluckily there was not enough wind because we were really trying to do some echelons but it was not working. But yes a𒅌nother time I want to say thank you to all my teammates because they always do a great job and always believe in me, and I really hope that one day I can win for them." 

Maybe next week?

ꦬ"I will race on Wednesday [at Dwars door Vlaanderen] so for sure we will try again." 

Interview

Charlotte Kool: 

In the final Wiebes is alwไays difficult to beat, how are you feeling now? 

"Satisfied. I think i did a really good race𓂃. I was there in the front, it came all back together which was nice for us to have some extra for the leadout. I think we came a bit early so the last bit was quite a bit of surfing but I gavꦯe my all and this is what it was for today." 

How hard was the 𒐪last climb of the Kemmelberg? 

"Yeah, like always it's really, really hard and you think it never ends but I was quite satisfied that I was quite💯 close to the𝕴 front." 

Did you think aftಌer Kemmelberg you would see the fron💎t again? 

"I thought that maybe the good thing that Lorena is climbing so well and nobody wants to go with her to the finish. So if there is a little group up front it's inevitable they work together to bring it back. So Trek want⛎ed to follow and help us bring them back."  

Were you surpris🅰ed by the size of the group? 

"In the end there wasn't really any tempo in the group which was strange. For us it wasn't a problem because we were luc📖ky to have riders who could help us with the leadout but I didn't expect such a big group like this." 

Kopecky started early, were you surprised?

"No, not at all.🦂 We would expect that and they were so strong in doing this. The last part I just had to follow the other riders but this was the best I could do." 

"I🎃t's giving me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season."