Route de France Féminine
The Route de France Féminine is a French stage race in women's cycling .
The race has been running since 2006 after the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) appealed to French race organizers to register a race on the international calendar. At the first event it was in the UCI category 2.2., Since then it has been under 2.1. classified. The race takes place every year in August and comprises between six and nine stages. In 2011 the event was canceled.
After the Tour de France Féminin (since 2010) and the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin (since 2011) have ceased to be held, the Route de France Féminine became the important French stage race for women. In 2017 the race was canceled by the organizers. The UCI is to blame for not including the race in the 2017 UCI Women's WorldTour .
Palmarès
Web links
- Official website
- Route de France Féminine in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Route de France Féminine in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Route de France féminine: Saint-Quentin va donner le top départ de cette course référence. (No longer available online.) Aisnenouvelle.fr, August 5, 2016, archived from the original on September 17, 2016 ; accessed on September 16, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Women's Tour de France canceled in protest over clash of dates. In: Cycling News. March 1, 2017, accessed March 1, 2017 .