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1st Ladies' Tour of Qatar - WE 2.1
Qatar, February 8-10, 2009
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Stage 1 - February 8: Museum Of Islamic Art - Doha Shafallah, 94km
Bronzini takes first ever Qatar gold
By Gregor Brown in Doha, Qatar
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Giorgia Bronzini of Team Italy took the first golden leader's jersey in the inaugural Ladies' Tour of Qatar Sunday in Doha. The 25-year-old sprinted to the win from a key move of 21 riders that formed mid-race in the 94-kilometre stage one.
"Now, I will try to win another one tomorrow. The classification as well!" said Bronzini.
The race is the first professional women's race held in the Middle East.
Bronzini, winner of last year's Züri Metzgete, won ahead of Kirsten Wild of Team Cervélo and Ellen van Dijk of Team Columbia.
The stage stared at Doha's Museum of Islamic Art at noon. It travelled north to Al Khor and then looped back down the Gulf of Bahrain waterfront.
At 10 kilometres into the race a move of eight formed. A larger group also moved clear and joined with the leaders by kilometre 48.
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The riders were Columbia's Chantal Beltman and Ellen Van Dijk; Kirsten Wild, Regina Bruins and Sarah Düster (Cervélo TestTeam); Nürnberger Versicherung's Suzanne De Goede and Christina Becker; Monique Van De Ree and Suzanne Van Veen (Leontien.nl); Susanne Ljungskog, Loes Gunnewijk and Trine Schmidt (Flexpoint); Bigla's Noemi Cantele, Nicole Brändli; Martine Bras (Sella Italia); USA's Katharine Carroll and Brooke Miller; Kirsty Broun (Australia); Italy's Giorgia Bronzini, Alessandra Borchi; and France's Marina Jaunatre.
The 21 built up a maximum 2:10 advantage on a day marked by an easterly wind, but the peloton slowly ate into their lead near the end. Coming into the final kilometres, the group had 55 seconds.
"In the last kilometre I was in the first positions and taking advantage of the other teams' trains," Bronzini said. "In the last curve a rider jumped clear [van Dijk - ed.], we caught her and she was the launch pad for the sprint."
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"Van Dijk attacked and I chased," said Wild. "Unfortunately, Bronzini followed me and I was the first lead-out for her."
Wild won both intermediate sprints during the day. With second on the stage, she claimed the silver point's jersey. "I was confident for the sprint, but they were too fast for me. There was a very hard win," van Dijk said.
Van Dijk donned the blue jersey of best young rider. She was the highest placed under-25 woman.
The three-stage race continues tomorrow from Doha. The riders will travel northwest to Al Shahaniyah, 110 kilometres.
Photography
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- The women's peloton starts the first ever Ladies Tour of Qatar.
- The bunch rode out neutralised at first over a few cobbles.
- Then they were stopped for the real start
- The French team gets its picture taken in front of the Qatar Museum of Islamic Art.
Images by Gregor Brown/Cyclingnews.com
- Doha's Museum of Islamic Art
- Cervélo signs in for the Tour of Qatar.
- Team Bigla's Jennifer Hohl
- Team Flexpoint
- Team Columbia-Highroad
- Leontien.nl's Monique Van De Ree
- Martine Bras (Sella Italia), l.
- The escape.
- USA Champion Brooke Miller
- Kirsten Wild of Team Cervélo
- Ellen van Dijk of Team Columbia
- Giorgia Bronzini (Italy) awarded for the Tour of Qatar stage win.
- Giorgia Bronzini (Italy) and Eddy Merckx.
- Italian Giorgia Bronzini is the first winner of the first professional women's race held in the Middle East.
- Giorgia Bronzini (Italy) celebrates in the the overall leader's jersey.
- Italy's Giorgia Bronzini leads the 1st Tour of Qatar.
- Kirsten Wild of Team Cervélo puts on the silver point's jersey.
- Kirsten Wild (Cervélo) takes the silver point's jersey.
- Ellen van Dijk of Team Columbia
- Ellen van Dijk (Columbia)
- Giorgia Bronzini (Italy), Ellen van Dijk (Team Columbia) and Kirsten Wild (Cervélo), l-r.
- Giorgia Bronzini (Italy), Ellen van Dijk (Team Columbia) and Kirsten Wild (Cervélo), l-r.
Results
1 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italy 2.26.21 (38.45 km/h) 2 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 3 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Women 4 Kirsty Broun (Aus) Australia 5 Martine Bras (Ned) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 0.06 6 Suzanne De Goede (Ned) Nürnberger Versicherung 7 Nicole Brändli (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 8 Marina Jaunatre (Fra) France 9 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Team Flexpoint 10 Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 11 Noemi Cantele (Ita) Bigla Cycling Team 12 Monique Van De Ree (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 13 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) Team Flexpoint 14 Brooke Miller (USA) US National Team 0.21 15 Alessandra Borchi (Ita) Italy 0.26 16 Regina Bruins (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 17 Christina Becker (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 18 Katharine Carroll (USA) US National Team 0.28 19 Sarah Düster (Ger) Cervelo Test Team 20 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Team Columbia Women 0.36 21 Trine Schmidt (Den) Team Flexpoint 1.03 22 Katherine Bates (Aus) Team Columbia Women 1.25 23 Lieselot Decroix (Bel) Cervelo Test Team 24 Agne Bagdonaviciute (Ltu) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 25 Christelle Ferrier-Bruneau (Fra) France 26 Marit Huisman (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 27 Lauren Tamayo (USA) US National Team 28 Peta Mullens (Aus) Australia 29 Katheryn Mattis (USA) US National Team 1.28 30 Robyn De Groot (RSA) South Africa 3.10 31 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 14.01 32 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 33 Lynette Burger (RSA) South Africa 34 Fanny Riberot (Fra) France 35 Xin Liu (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 36 Ayako Toyooka (Jpn) Japan 37 Chisako Harigai (Jpn) Japan 38 Mayuko Hagiwara (Jpn) Japan 39 Nadia Triquet-Claude (Fra) France 40 Li Ping Zhang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 41 Eleonora Soldo (Ita) Italy 42 Pascale Schnider (Swi) Cervelo Test Team 43 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) Australia 44 Catherine Delfosse (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 45 Anriette Schoeman (RSA) South Africa 46 Fei Wang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 47 Cherise Taylor (RSA) South Africa 48 Min Gao (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 49 Kim Schoonbaert (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 50 Gloria Presti (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 51 Magali Mocquery (Fra) France 52 Janel Holcomb (USA) US National Team 53 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Italy 54 Bettina Kuhn (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 55 Jennifer Hohl (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 56 Emilia Fahlin (Swe) Team Columbia Women 57 Grace Verbeke (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 58 Mao Chino (Jpn) Japan 59 Emma Rickards (Aus) Australia 60 Carlee Taylor (Aus) Australia 61 Véra Koedooder (Ned) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 62 Alessia Massaccesi (Ita) Italy 63 Marissa Van Der Merwe (RSA) South Africa 64 Chantal Blaak (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 65 Eva Lutz (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 66 Lisa Brennauer (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 67 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Australia 68 Linda Villumsen (Den) Team Columbia Women 69 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italy 70 Giada Borgato (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 71 Rebecca Much (USA) US National Team 72 Sigrid Corneo (Slo) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 73 Monica Holler (Swe) Bigla Cycling Team 74 Patricia Schwager (Swi) Cervelo Test Team 75 Veronica Andreasson (Swe) Bigla Cycling Team 76 Suzanne Van Veen (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 77 Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 78 Mélanie Bravard (Fra) France 79 Regina Schleicher (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 80 Loes Markerink (Ned) Team Flexpoint 81 Luise Keller (Ger) Team Columbia Women 82 Cashandra Slingerland (RSA) South Africa 83 Iris Slappendel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 84 Marlijn Binnendijk (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 85 Xiao Ling Luo (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 14.59 Sprints Umm Qarn - 36.0 Km 1 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 3 pts 2 Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 2 3 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Team Flexpoint 1 Al Khor - 54.0 Km 1 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 3 pts 2 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italy 2 3 Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 1 Doha Shafallah - 94.0 Km 1 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italy 30 pts 2 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 27 3 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Women 25 4 Kirsty Broun (Aus) Australia 23 5 Martine Bras (Ned) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 21 6 Suzanne De Goede (Ned) Nürnberger Versicherung 19 7 Nicole Brändli (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 17 8 Marina Jaunatre (Fra) France 15 9 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Team Flexpoint 13 10 Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 11 11 Noemi Cantele (Ita) Bigla Cycling Team 10 12 Monique Van De Ree (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 9 13 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) Team Flexpoint 8 14 Brooke Miller (USA) US National Team 7 15 Alessandra Borchi (Ita) Italy 6 16 Regina Bruins (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 5 17 Christina Becker (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 4 18 Katharine Carroll (USA) US National Team 3 19 Sarah Düster (Ger) Cervelo Test Team 2 20 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Team Columbia Women 1 Young rider 1 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Women 2.26.21 2 Suzanne De Goede (Ned) Nürnberger Versicherung 0.06 3 Monique Van De Ree (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 4 Regina Bruins (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 0.26 5 Trine Schmidt (Den) Team Flexpoint 1.03 6 Lieselot Decroix (Bel) Cervelo Test Team 1.25 7 Agne Bagdonaviciute (Ltu) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 8 Marit Huisman (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 9 Peta Mullens (Aus) Australia 10 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 14.01 11 Xin Liu (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 12 Chisako Harigai (Jpn) Japan 13 Mayuko Hagiwara (Jpn) Japan 14 Li Ping Zhang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 15 Eleonora Soldo (Ita) Italy 16 Pascale Schnider (Swi) Cervelo Test Team 17 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) Australia 18 Fei Wang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 19 Cherise Taylor (RSA) South Africa 20 Kim Schoonbaert (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 21 Gloria Presti (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 22 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Italy 23 Jennifer Hohl (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 24 Emilia Fahlin (Swe) Team Columbia Women 25 Grace Verbeke (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 26 Carlee Taylor (Aus) Australia 27 Alessia Massaccesi (Ita) Italy 28 Chantal Blaak (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 29 Lisa Brennauer (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 30 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Australia 31 Linda Villumsen (Den) Team Columbia Women 32 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italy 33 Giada Borgato (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 34 Rebecca Much (USA) US National Team 35 Monica Holler (Swe) Bigla Cycling Team 36 Suzanne Van Veen (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 37 Mélanie Bravard (Fra) France 38 Loes Markerink (Ned) Team Flexpoint 39 Luise Keller (Ger) Team Columbia Women 40 Iris Slappendel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 41 Marlijn Binnendijk (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 42 Xiao Ling Luo (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 14.59 Teams 1 Team Flexpoint 7.19.21 2 Cervelo Test Team 0.36 3 Team Columbia Women 1.43 4 Usa 1.56 5 Bigla Cycling Team 13.55 6 Italy 14.09 7 Nürnberger Versicherung 14.15 8 Australia 15.08 9 France 15.14 10 Selle Italia-Ghezzi 11 Team Leontien.Nl 12 South Africa 30.54 13 Giant Pro Cycling 41.45 14 Japan 15 Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam General classification after stage 1 1 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italy 2.26.09 2 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 3 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Women 0.08 4 Kirsty Broun (Aus) Australia 0.12 5 Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 0.15 6 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Team Flexpoint 0.17 7 Martine Bras (Ned) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 0.18 8 Suzanne De Goede (Ned) Nürnberger Versicherung 9 Nicole Brändli (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 10 Marina Jaunatre (Fra) France 11 Noemi Cantele (Ita) Bigla Cycling Team 12 Monique Van De Ree (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 13 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) Team Flexpoint 14 Brooke Miller (USA) US National Team 0.33 15 Alessandra Borchi (Ita) Italy 0.38 16 Regina Bruins (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 17 Christina Becker (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 18 Katharine Carroll (USA) US National Team 0.40 19 Sarah Düster (Ger) Cervelo Test Team 20 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Team Columbia Women 0.48 21 Trine Schmidt (Den) Team Flexpoint 1.15 22 Katherine Bates (Aus) Team Columbia Women 1.37 23 Lieselot Decroix (Bel) Cervelo Test Team 24 Agne Bagdonaviciute (Ltu) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 25 Christelle Ferrier-Bruneau (Fra) France 26 Marit Huisman (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 27 Lauren Tamayo (USA) US National Team 28 Peta Mullens (Aus) Australia 29 Katheryn Mattis (USA) US National Team 1.40 30 Robyn De Groot (RSA) South Africa 3.22 31 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 14.13 32 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 33 Lynette Burger (RSA) South Africa 34 Fanny Riberot (Fra) France 35 Xin Liu (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 36 Ayako Toyooka (Jpn) Japan 37 Chisako Harigai (Jpn) Japan 38 Mayuko Hagiwara (Jpn) Japan 39 Nadia Triquet-Claude (Fra) France 40 Li Ping Zhang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 41 Eleonora Soldo (Ita) Italy 42 Pascale Schnider (Swi) Cervelo Test Team 43 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) Australia 44 Catherine Delfosse (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 45 Anriette Schoeman (RSA) South Africa 46 Fei Wang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 47 Cherise Taylor (RSA) South Africa 48 Min Gao (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 49 Kim Schoonbaert (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 50 Gloria Presti (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 51 Magali Mocquery (Fra) France 52 Janel Holcomb (USA) US National Team 53 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Italy 54 Bettina Kuhn (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 55 Jennifer Hohl (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 56 Emilia Fahlin (Swe) Team Columbia Women 57 Grace Verbeke (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 58 Mao Chino (Jpn) Japan 59 Emma Rickards (Aus) Australia 60 Carlee Taylor (Aus) Australia 61 Véra Koedooder (Ned) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 62 Alessia Massaccesi (Ita) Italy 63 Marissa Van Der Merwe (RSA) South Africa 64 Chantal Blaak (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 65 Eva Lutz (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 66 Lisa Brennauer (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 67 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Australia 68 Linda Villumsen (Den) Team Columbia Women 69 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italy 70 Giada Borgato (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 71 Rebecca Much (USA) US National Team 72 Sigrid Corneo (Slo) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 73 Monica Holler (Swe) Bigla Cycling Team 74 Patricia Schwager (Swi) Cervelo Test Team 75 Veronica Andreasson (Swe) Bigla Cycling Team 76 Suzanne Van Veen (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 77 Silvia Valsecchi (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 78 Mélanie Bravard (Fra) France 79 Regina Schleicher (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 80 Loes Markerink (Ned) Team Flexpoint 81 Luise Keller (Ger) Team Columbia Women 82 Cashandra Slingerland (RSA) South Africa 83 Iris Slappendel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 84 Marlijn Binnendijk (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 85 Xiao Ling Luo (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 15.11 Points classification 1 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 33 pts 2 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italy 32 3 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Women 25 4 Kirsty Broun (Aus) Australia 23 5 Martine Bras (Ned) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 21 6 Suzanne De Goede (Ned) Nürnberger Versicherung 19 7 Nicole Brändli (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 17 8 Marina Jaunatre (Fra) France 15 9 Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 14 10 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Team Flexpoint 14 11 Noemi Cantele (Ita) Bigla Cycling Team 10 12 Monique Van De Ree (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 9 13 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) Team Flexpoint 8 14 Brooke Miller (USA) US National Team 7 15 Alessandra Borchi (Ita) Italy 6 16 Regina Bruins (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 5 17 Christina Becker (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 4 18 Katharine Carroll (USA) US National Team 3 19 Sarah Düster (Ger) Cervelo Test Team 2 20 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Team Columbia Women 1 Young rider classification 1 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Women 2.26.17 2 Suzanne De Goede (Ned) Nürnberger Versicherung 0.10 3 Monique Van De Ree (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 4 Regina Bruins (Ned) Cervelo Test Team 0.30 5 Trine Schmidt (Den) Team Flexpoint 1.07 6 Lieselot Decroix (Bel) Cervelo Test Team 1.29 7 Agne Bagdonaviciute (Ltu) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 8 Marit Huisman (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 9 Peta Mullens (Aus) Australia 10 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 14.05 11 Xin Liu (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 12 Chisako Harigai (Jpn) Japan 13 Mayuko Hagiwara (Jpn) Japan 14 Li Ping Zhang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 15 Eleonora Soldo (Ita) Italy 16 Pascale Schnider (Swi) Cervelo Test Team 17 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) Australia 18 Fei Wang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 19 Cherise Taylor (RSA) South Africa 20 Kim Schoonbaert (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 21 Gloria Presti (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 22 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Italy 23 Jennifer Hohl (Swi) Bigla Cycling Team 24 Emilia Fahlin (Swe) Team Columbia Women 25 Grace Verbeke (Bel) Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam 26 Carlee Taylor (Aus) Australia 27 Alessia Massaccesi (Ita) Italy 28 Chantal Blaak (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 29 Lisa Brennauer (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 30 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Australia 31 Linda Villumsen (Den) Team Columbia Women 32 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italy 33 Giada Borgato (Ita) Selle Italia-Ghezzi 34 Rebecca Much (USA) US National Team 35 Monica Holler (Swe) Bigla Cycling Team 36 Suzanne Van Veen (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 37 Mélanie Bravard (Fra) France 38 Loes Markerink (Ned) Team Flexpoint 39 Luise Keller (Ger) Team Columbia Women 40 Iris Slappendel (Ned) Team Flexpoint 41 Marlijn Binnendijk (Ned) Team Leontien.nl 42 Xiao Ling Luo (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 15.03 Teams classification 1 Team Flexpoint 7.19.21 2 Cervelo Test Team 0.36 3 Team Columbia Women 1.43 4 US National Team 1.56 5 Bigla Cycling Team 13.55 6 Italy 14.09 7 Nürnberger Versicherung 14.15 8 Australia 15.08 9 France 15.14 10 Selle Italia-Ghezzi 11 Team Leontien.Nl 12 South Africa 30.54 13 Giant Pro Cycling 41.45 14 Japan 15 Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam
