2014 Ronde van Drenthe World Cup

2014 Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
2014 UCI Women's Road World Cup, race 1 of 9
Race details
Dates15 March 2014
Stages1
Distance132.8 km (82.52 mi)
Winning time3h 51' 03"
Results
  Winner  Lizzie Armitstead (Great Britain) (Boels–Dolmans)
  Second  Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) (Rabo–Liv)
  Third  Shelley Olds (United States) (Alé–Cipollini)
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UCI Report
2014 UCI Women's Road World Cup
Races
Round 1Ronde van Drenthe
Round 2Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
Round 3Tour of Flanders
Round 4La Flèche Wallonne
Round 5Tour of Chongming Island
Round 6Sparkassen Giro
Round 7Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
Round 8Open de Suède Vårgårda
Round 9GP de Plouay-Bretagne
Teams and riders
2014 UCI Women's Teams and riders

The 2014 Ronde van Drenthe World Cup was the 8th running of the women's Ronde van Drenthe World Cup, a women's bicycle race in the Netherlands. It was the first World Cup race of the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Cup and was held on 15 March 2014 over a distance of 132.8 kilometres (82.5 miles), starting and finishing in Hoogeveen.

In the final of the race Anna van der Breggen and Iris Slappendel rode away from the chasing group. 16 km before the finish, after riding the VAM mountain for the last time, Van der Breggen rode away from Slappendel. Van der Breggen got an advantage of over 1' 30" on the chasing group. It was the Dutch Ellen van Dijk from Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team who closed about the whole gap and launched teammate Lizzie Armitstead, who rode to Van der Breggen. Armitstead outsprinted Van der Breggen in the final and won the race. Armitstead said after the race that it was her best achievement after winning silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics and thanked Van Dijk for chasing down Van der Breggen.[1]

  1. ^ "Help from van Dijk elevates Armitstead". Yorkshire Post. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.