2016 UCI Women's World Tour, race 1 of 17 | |||||||||||||
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Dates | 5 March 2016 | ||||||||||||
Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
Distance | 121 km (75.19 mi) | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 3h 30' 13" | ||||||||||||
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The second edition of the women's Strade Bianche was held on 5 March 2016, in Tuscany, Italy. British world champion Lizzie Armitstead won the race, in bad weather, ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Emma Johansson.[1]
The women's Strade Bianche served as the first event of the inaugural UCI Women's World Tour, the highest level of professional women's cycling.[2][3] The race is organized on the same day as the men's event, at a shorter distance, but on much of the same roads.[3]