News – Scottish Women’s Road Race Series for 2014
Are you a female cyclist, looking to do some road cycling? Well the new Scottish National Women’s Road Race could be for you. (more…)
Are you a female cyclist, looking to do some road cycling? Well the new Scottish National Women’s Road Race could be for you. (more…)
The rider line up for the Matrix Fitness-Vulpine racing team for the FriendsLife Womens Tour revealed (more…)
Sweetspot’s FriendsLife Women’s Tour kicks off on Wednesday (May 7) with the worlds best female cyclists – here is the info on the race (more…)
Friends Life Women’s Tour talks to Lizzie Armitstead who stars in the race that starts on May 7-11 in Oundle (Northamptonshire) and finishes in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (more…)
Katie Archibald of Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International solos to victory in the Cheshire Classic (more…)
Tendring is set to turn orange next month for the inaugural FriendsLife Women’s Tour cycling event (more…)
World Cup leader Lizzie Armitstead is second to Ferrand-Prevot in Women’s Flèche Wallonne Féminine (more…)
Mathilde Matthijsse of Bonito Squadra Corse  is tops in the Nigel Measom Womens 2-day Road Race (more…)
Charlotte Broughton wins the 3/4 womens circuit race at round 3 of the Women’s Cyclopark Twilight Series (more…)
Star-studded Cheshire Classic ready for biggest ever race with Olympic and Paralympic Champions and a Dame (more…)
Marianne Vos, the record-holder for most wins in the Flèche Wallonne, will start the 17th edition to battle wih Emma Johansson & Lizzie Armitstead (more…)
An individual time trial, a circuit race and a hilly final stage are among the challenges for the competitors in An Post Rás na mBan 2014 (more…)
Gemma Hayes & Â Clover Murray winners at round 2 of the Women’s Twilight Series at the Kent Cyclopark (more…)
Women! Lotto Cycling Cup have been in contact after Elite club teams from Britain & second year junior women (more…)
Friends Life has been unveiled as the title sponsor of the inaugural Women’s Tour cycle race, which runs from 7th – 11th May (more…)
Jessie Walker sprints to victory in the Women’s Sheffrec Spring Road Race, round 1 of the Yorkshire Women’s Road Race Series (more…)
Nicola Juniper won the first ever Alexandra Women’s Tour of the Reservoir in Northumberland on Saturday, April 12 (more…)
The Women’s Tour by Sweetspot Selects Strava as Queen of the Mountains Jersey competition sponsor (more…)
Lucy Garner is getting closer to taking her first victory of the season after sprinting to third place at today’s Grand Prix Dottignies. (more…)
Three world cups and a first and two seconds for World Cup Leader Lizzie Armitstead as her teammate  Ellen van Dijk  wins at Flanders (more…)
Riders gathered on a warm and sunny morning at Clyst St George for the second round of the Kalas South West Women’s Race Series and the first of the four time trials (more…)
In Trofeo Alfredo Binda on Sunday, Lizzie Armitstead was second to Orica GreenEdge’s Emma Johansson who took her third victory of the season but the British rider now leads the Women’s World Cup (more…)
In an exciting addition to the Tour of the Reservoir, a Women’s race is being held on the Saturday with rider 1 being one of the Worlds top female cyclo-cross riders, Helen Wyman (more…)
Alex Jones & Joanne Blakeley winners in the North West in the latest CDNW Road Race Series on SUnday (March 30) (more…)
Grace Garner (RST Racing) won round two of the Women’s Team Series at Virgina Waters in Surrey on Sunday. (more…)
Laura Massey of Epic Cycles-Scott WRT was the strongest rider up the finishing hill at the Hog Hill course to take victory in the first Women’s Team Race Series event of the 2014 season (more…)
Following last years success, the South West Women’s Race Series is back, bigger and better than ever for the 2014 season. (more…)
Women’s racing in Scotland goes from strength to strength says Scottish Cycling, the National Governing Body for cycling in Scotland (more…)
Britain’s Silver medallist from the Olympics, Lizzie Armitstead has won the first round in the Women’s World Cup (more…)
The top British women’s teams clash in Twickenham CC’s Dave Peck Memorial Ladies Race in round 2 of the Womens Team Series on Sunday 30th March (more…)
TV coverage for the 2014 UCI Women Road World Cup as VSquared TV produces series with BBC one of those taking the programmes (more…)
Ladies’ cycling comes together in Paris on July 27 for the inaugural edition of La Course by le Tour de France much to the delight of female professionals (more…)
Eleven of the world’s top fourteen professional women’s teams will race in Britain this May following the announcement of the field for the inaugural Women’s Tour (more…)
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Olympic Champion, Joanna Rowsell, took her second rainbow jersey of the 2014 UCI World Track Championships in Cali (more…)
SweetSpot Group increase their support and commitment to women’s cycling by being a key sponsor of the long-standing women’s classic race, The 3 Days of Bedford (more…)
Reigning World and Olympic Road Race Champion Marianne Vos will take part in The Women’s Tour this May, Britain’s first UCI ranked international stage race for women. (more…)
Sweetspot, organisers of the Tour of Britain, Tour Series and now the Women’s Tour, pleased to share their promo video (more…)
Former Italian junior women’s champion Corinna Defile joins British Women’s team Velosport Pasta Montegrappa (more…)
After wins in 2009, 2010 and 2013, Kirsten Wild captured a fourth crown on the Ladies Tour of Qatar in 2014. (more…)
Kirsten Wilde, Queen of Qatar after much success there won stage 3 just ahead of British champion Lizzie Armitstead (more…)
After a very eventful day of racing north of Qatar, Amy Pieters captured the overall leadership of the Ladies Tour of Qatar whilst Lizzie Armitstead loses time in split (more…)
The 6th edition of the Ladies Tour of Qatar started the same way the last one ended: with a victory from star sprinter Kirsten Wild. Armitstead 5th (more…)
Le Tour organisers ASO announce that a women’s race will take place at this year’s Tour de France on the Champs-Elysées in Paris (more…)
Cheshire Classic Women’s Road Race takes place in Northwich on Sunday 27th April and promises to be the biggest yet (more…)
Hannah Barnes is about to move up to the next phase of her career, racing as a full time pro bike rider for the biggest team in America, the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team (more…)
Talking to Lucy Coldwell (Velosport Past Montegrappa) who will return from Australia to race in Britain from her base in Scotland (more…)
With the 2014 racing season fast approaching, Team Velosport Pasta Montegrappa has announced its line up for next year and its calendar. (more…)
Talking with new signing for Epic Cycles-Scott Contessa Laura Massey about women’s racing (more…)
Felixstowe and the Suffolk Coastal District will host the start of Stage Three of the new-for-2014 Women’s Tour it has been announced. (more…)
Elite women’s single day road race will take place in Thoresby (North Notts) as part of a cycle fest weekend in May 2014 (more…)
Question and Answer with new Epic Cycles-Scott Contessa WRT signing for 2014, Â Karla Boddy, winner of 2013 Cheshire Classic (more…)
Talking to Iona Sewell, Sandra Mackay, Stephania Magri, Linda Young & Karen Poole of the Geoffrey Butler Cycles Ladies Racing Team (more…)
The Southern BC board have agreed that all novice women racers taking part in the coaching sessions at Odd Down throughout December will have their day licence fees paid for their first race. (more…)
Final stage of The Women’s Tour cycle race to begin in Harwich, taking in Essex and Suffolk (more…)
After her recent blog, VeloUK got in touch with the Junior Women’s Hill Climb Champion Alice Cobb with a Q & A  about her cycling obsession (more…)
Bonito Squadra Corse, formed in October 2012, are pleased to announce their team for the 2014 season. (more…)
Hertfordshire and Essex will both host stages of The Women’s Tour in 2014, the new elite cycle race, which will be a highlight of the global women’s cycling calendar. (more…)
Talking to Matrix Fitness rider Jessie Walker from South Yorkshire who made great progress as a new senior rider in 2013 (more…)
A victory in the Superprestige at Ruddervorde but 11th place in Czech World Cup after a bad day makes it a mixed bag for the weekend (more…)
Oundle, Hinckley and Bedford to all feature on route for inaugural Women’s UCI international cycle race in Britain (more…)
Britain’s Rachel Heal (Commonwealth Games medallist 2002), joins UnitedHealthcare from her recent stint as a team director with Optum Pro Cycling’s women’s team. (more…)
Continuing a series talking to women racers in Britain with Les Filles Racing Team’s Nicole Oh from London (more…)
Jon Miles continues his look at the battle women have had to rage against a governing body to be given equal opportunities (more…)
With the sport of women’s cycle racing getting ever popular and a UCI stage racing to these shores in 2013, Jon Miles looks back at the history of it in Britain (more…)
The Madison Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Team announces rider roster for the 2014 season (more…)
The SweetSpot Group are delighted to announce that The Women’s Tour has been awarded 2.1 status by the UCI, the sport’s governing body, for its 2014 launch. (more…)
An ambitious bid has been made to bring the first ever Women’s Tour of Britain cycling event to the streets of Tendring (Essex) says a story on the web (more…)
Epic Cycles – Scott Contessa Women’s Racing Team reveal 2014 line-up including Karla Boddy, Anna Christian, Hannah Walker & others (more…)
Matrix Fitness rider Corrine Hall has won the Scratch race at the National Championship in spectacular style beating two Olympic champions in the race to the title. (more…)
Dillon’s Triple as Siggard Takes the Final Stage and two jerseys for Britain’s Hannah Barnes in in An Post Rás na mBan (Women’s Stage race, Ireland) (more…)
Hannah Barnes (DID Electric) powered up the finishing hill in Lisdoonvarna to take her third victory of the week in the An Post ‘Cliffs of Moher’ stage five of An Post Rás na mBan 2013. (more…)
Hannah Barnes took her second victory of the An Post Rás na mBan 2013 (Irish Women’s Stage Race) when she sprinted in to win stage four circuit race at Ballyalla, County Clare on Friday night. (more…)
Team Ireland took a comfortable victory in the stage three team time trial of An Post Rás na mBan in County Clare this morning. (more…)
Irish national road-race champion Melanie Späth outsprinted her Ireland team mate Olivia Dillon to take stage two honours in An Post Rás na mBan as Dillon assumed the overall lead by the narrowest of margins from Späth. (more…)
Hannah Barnes sprinted to victory on the Fixx Coffee Stage One of An Post Rás na mBan in Ennis, Wednesday evening. (more…)
Julie Erskine of Granite City RT wins the Feew-side Womens Road Race in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) on Saturday (more…)
Lee Craigie wins the Munlochy Women’s Road Race in the Scottish Highlands last Sunday (more…)
Another win for Elizabeth Malins of Abergavenny RC, this one in the CDNW Women’s Road Race League at Great Budworth on Sunday (more…)
Hannah Barnes of MG-Maxifuel wins the last round of the Women’s National Series and with it, takes the overall series for the Jo Bruton trophy (more…)
British Road Race Champion for Women, Lizzie Armitstead was second to Emma Johansson who wins Thüringen Rundfahrt opener (more…)
Mathilde Pauls & Bethany Hayward were winners of the first two stages on day 1 in the Women’s National Series two day in Essex (more…)
Lauryn Therin wins the Women’s event at the CDNW Women’s League, Event 11 at Pimbo (more…)
Clemence Copie wins the Surrey League Women’s Road Race at Kirdford on June 23 (Sunday) (more…)
Amy Roberts wins the Women’s CDNW ‘Surf and Turf’ Weekend in the North West from final stage winner Eileen Roe (more…)
Eileen Roe won stage 3 of the Women’s CDNW ‘Surf and Turf’ Weekend (more…)
Amy Roberts wins stage 2 (circuit race) Â of the CDNW ‘Surf and Turf’ Women’s stage race in Blackpool (more…)
Katie Archibald of City of Edinburgh RC winner of the prologue for the Women’s CDNW ‘Surf and Turf’ in the North West (more…)
MG Maxifuel’s Hannah Barnes bounces back from crash to win in Woking whilst her team MG Maxifuel are the on verge of clinching clean sweep of Johnson Health Tech honours (more…)
Vanessa Whitfield of VC St Raphael wins the 2013 Holme Valley Wheelers Women’s Stage Race (more…)
1-2 for Matrix Fitness as Corrine Hall wins the Shutt VR Women’s Team Series event, the Banbury Star Road Race on Sunday (more…)
Clean sweep for Hannah Barnes in Colchester -Â Solo victory for MG Maxifuel rider puts her into Series lead post Round Two (more…)
Lloyd Chapman & Laura Massey winners in the East London Velo Road Race at Hatfield Heath, Essex on Sunday (more…)
Gordon Wiseman catches up with the winner of the Stoke round of the Women’s Tour Series event, Natalie Creswick (more…)
Awesome solo performance from Natalie Creswick as she leads her Mule Bar team to victory in opening round (more…)
Cycling Development North West (“CDNWâ€) are hosting a round of the National Women’s Road Series on 15 & 16 June, the Surf & Turf 2 Day (more…)
Double Olympic and World Champion Laura Trott OBE, did not fail to impress in her appearances in the Elveden Road Races (more…)
Sophie Faulkner of Solihull CC wins the Millbrook Classic for Women for category 3/4 riders on Monday (more…)
Day 2- A classic in the British Women’s Racing Calendar, the Shutt VR Bedford 3 Day is now on! VeloUK is there … (more…)
Win for birthday girl Hannah Barnes (MG Maxifuel Pro Cycling Team) on stage 1 of the Bedford 3 Day on Saturday (more…)
Karla Boddy of MG-Maxifuel Pro Cycling has won the Women’s British event, the Cheshire Classic (more…)
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Laura Trott took fourth place in the prologue time trial of the Festival Luxembourgeois du Cyclisme Féminin Elsy Jacobs in the pouring rain of Mamer, Luxembourg (more…)
The SWWRS Race 2 went off with a bang, or a metaphorical bang of speed if you like. There was no messing around says Elena Bremer (Exeter Wheelers)Â ! (more…)
Julie Erskine of Granite City RT wins the Glasgow Wheelers Women’s Road Race (more…)
Dutch 25-year-old Marianne Vos (Rabo Women Cycling Team) added a fifth Flèche Wallonne to her tally to go with those she won in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. (more…)
Alice Barnes won the Twickenham CC Dave Peck Memorial from a small break in the Shutt RV Women’s Team Series race in Surrey (more…)
Anne Ewing wins the first round of the Jo Bruton Women’s National Series in Scotland from Hannah Barnes and Eileen Roe. Barnes wins final stage. (more…)
Double Olympic champion on the track, Laura Trott, misses break in the Energiewacht Tour but remains in white jersey contention after a strong team chase (more…)
Olympic champion Laura Trott (Wiggle Honda) ended day 1 in the Energiewacht Tour in the best young rider jersey after a chaotic first stage in the north east of Holland. (more…)
Chloe Fraser of Deeside Thistle CC wins the Women’s only race at Garlogie in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) (more…)
Paul Burgoine writes about what it is like to cover the Women’s Tour of Flanders and talks to Lizzie Armitstead and Lucy Garner (more…)
Video from the Women’s World Cup, Tour of Flanders on Sunday won by Marrianne Vos (more…)
London Olympic champion Joanna Rowsell swaps the warmth and smooth boards of the velodrome for the Baltic conditions and cobbles in Belgium (more…)
Organisers of the Tour Series and Tour of Britain, Sweetspot, look at organising a Women’s only UCI five day stage race in Britain in 2014 (more…)
Two-time World champion, Wiggle Honda’s Giorgia Bronzini, sprinted to second place in the Drentse 8 race in Dwingeloo, in the north eastern Netherlands whilst first year senior Lucy Garner was best Brit in 8th. (more…)
Katharine Broadbent winner of the Women’s Season Starter at the Croft Racing Circuit in North Yorkshire on Saturday (more…)
Australian Tiffany Cromwell wins the Women’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for Orica-GreenEdge (more…)
The Netherland’s Kirsten Wild conquered a third Ladies Tour of Qatar after triumphing on the final stage of the 5th edition. (more…)
Stage 3 of the Ladies Tour of Qatar was as fast as it was eventful with an impressive average speed of over 45km/h climaxed by Kirsten Wild capturing her second consecutive stage win and taking command of the overall standings. (more…)
Kirsten Wild captures her first success of the year, claiming a record fourth stage victory on stage 2 of the Ladies Tour of Qatar after a windy day in the desert. (more…)