| 2017 UCI Women's World Tour, race 1 of 20 | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | 4 March 2017 | ||||||||||||
| Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 127 km (78.91 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3h 44' 45" | ||||||||||||
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The third edition of the women's Strade Bianche was held on 4 March 2017, in Tuscany, Italy. Elisa Longo Borghini won the race, in bad weather, ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma and the previous year's champion, Lizzie Deignan.
The women's Strade Bianche served as the first event of the second UCI Women's World Tour, the highest level of professional women's cycling.[1][2] The race is organized on the same day as the men's event, at a shorter distance, but on much of the same roads.[2]
- ^ Weislo, Laura. "UCI announces 2016 Women's World Tour". Cycling News. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ^ a b "Siena start for Strade Bianche in 2016. Women's WorldTour to start on dirt roads". Cycling News. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 19 February 2016.