# 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland

The 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland was the inaugural and only edition of the Women's Tour of Scotland, a women's cycling stage race held in Scotland, UK. It was run from 9 to 11 August 2019. The race was scheduled for 3 stages, covering a total of 359.2 kilometres (223.2 miles), but the race's opening stage was abandoned due to adverse weather conditions. It was classified as a class 2.1 event by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The race was won by American rider Leah Thomas, riding for the Bigla Pro Cycling team. Having finished fourth in the second stage in Perth – won by Canada's Alison Jackson (Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank) – Thomas won the final stage in an eight-rider sprint at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, and with bonus seconds accumulated at intermediate sprints during the day, Thomas assumed the leader's jersey from Jackson by five seconds. The podium was completed by Norwegian rider Stine Borgli, riding for a Norwegian national team, a further two seconds back, after two third-place stage finishes.
The Bigla Pro Cycling team won the other three jerseys that were on offer during the race. Thomas was the winner of the points classification alongside her general classification victory, while the team's leader Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig led the mountains classification from start-to-finish, and Nikola Nosková was the winner of the young rider classification, after a ninth-place finish on the final stage allowed her to take the jersey from Rally UHC Cycling's Emma White. The best Scottish rider during the race was Scottish junior national road race champion Anna Shackley, who finished in thirteenth place overall.

## History

The first and only edition was held in 2019 as a 2.1 category race on the UCI women's road cycling calendar. The event folded when the organizers, Zeus Sports, ceased trading having failed to pay debts following the 2019 event.

## Jerseys

* Classification
* General classification
* Sprints classification
* Mountains classification
* Young rider classification
* Best Scottish rider

## Teams

Sixteen teams participated in the race.
Professional women's teams
* Alé–Cipollini
* Bigla Pro Cycling
* BTC City Ljubljana
* Drops
* Lotto–Soudal Ladies
* Parkhotel Valkenburg
* Rally UHC Cycling
* Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank
* Valcar–Cylance
National teams
* Great Britain
* Norway
* Scotland
* South Korea
Non-UCI teams
* Brother UK–Tifosi p/b OnForm
* Team Jadan Weldtite–Vive Le Velo
* Torelli–Assure–Madison

## Route

Stage characteristics and winners :
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner |
| 1 | 9 August | Dundee to Dunfermline | 103.1 km (64 mi) | Hilly stage | No winner |
| 2 | 10 August | Glasgow to Perth | 138.7 km (86 mi) | Flat stage | Alison Jackson (CAN) |
| 3 | 11 August | Edinburgh to Edinburgh | 117.4 km (73 mi) | Hilly stage | Leah Thomas (USA) |

## Stages
### Stage 1
#### 9 August 2019 — Dundee to Dunfermline, 103.1 km (64 mi)

The opening stage of the race was abandoned after 62 kilometres (39 miles), due to adverse weather conditions. Prior to the abandonment, two intermediate sprints and one categorised climb were held and these points counted towards the respective classifications. The red sprinters' jersey went to BTC City Ljubljana's Eugenia Bujak on countback from Alé–Cipollini's Marjolein van't Geloof, while Bigla Pro Cycling rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig was first on the ascent at the Grange of Lindores to take the blue and white polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification.

### Stage 2
#### 10 August 2019 — Glasgow to Perth, 138.7 km (86 mi)

Stage 2 result :
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
| 1 | Alison Jackson (CAN) | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank | 3h 24' 37" |
| 2 | Emma White (USA) | Rally UHC Cycling | + 0" |
| 3 | Stine Borgli (NOR) | Norway (national team) | + 0" |
| 4 | Leah Thomas (USA) | Bigla Pro Cycling | + 0" |
| 5 | Belle de Gast (NED) | Parkhotel Valkenburg | + 0" |
| 6 | Ilaria Sanguineti (ITA) | Valcar–Cylance | + 0" |
| 7 | Jessica Roberts (GBR) | Great Britain (national team) | + 0" |
| 8 | Abby-Mae Parkinson (GBR) | Drops | + 0" |
| 9 | Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL) | Torelli–Assure–Madison | + 0" |
| 10 | Eugenia Bujak (SLO) | BTC City Ljubljana | + 0" |
General classification after Stage 2 :
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
| 1 | Alison Jackson (CAN) | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank | 3h 24' 27" |
| 2 | Emma White (USA) | Rally UHC Cycling | + 4" |
| 3 | Stine Borgli (NOR) | Norway (national team) | + 4" |
| 4 | Leah Thomas (USA) | Bigla Pro Cycling | + 7" |
| 5 | Eugenia Bujak (SLO) | BTC City Ljubljana | + 8" |
| 6 | Na Ah-reum (KOR) | Alé–Cipollini | + 9" |
| 7 | Belle de Gast (NED) | Parkhotel Valkenburg | + 10" |
| 8 | Ilaria Sanguineti (ITA) | Valcar–Cylance | + 10" |
| 9 | Jessica Roberts (GBR) | Great Britain (national team) | + 10" |
| 10 | Abby-Mae Parkinson (GBR) | Drops | + 10" |

### Stage 3
#### 11 August 2019 — Edinburgh to Edinburgh, 117.4 km (73 mi)

Stage 3 result :
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
| 1 | Leah Thomas (USA) | Bigla Pro Cycling | 3h 10' 04" |
| 2 | Elise Chabbey (SUI) | Bigla Pro Cycling | + 0" |
| 3 | Stine Borgli (NOR) | Norway (national team) | + 0" |
| 4 | Alison Jackson (CAN) | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank | + 0" |
| 5 | Eugenia Bujak (SLO) | BTC City Ljubljana | + 0" |
| 6 | Eri Yonamine (JPN) | Alé–Cipollini | + 0" |
| 7 | Julie Van de Velde (BEL) | Lotto–Soudal Ladies | + 0" |
| 8 | Hanna Nilsson (SWE) | BTC City Ljubljana | + 0" |
| 9 | Nikola Nosková (CZE) | Bigla Pro Cycling | + 3" |
| 10 | Nadia Quagliotto (ITA) | Alé–Cipollini | + 6" |
Final general classification :
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
| 1 | Leah Thomas (USA) | Bigla Pro Cycling | 6h 34' 24" |
| 2 | Alison Jackson (CAN) | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank | + 5" |
| 3 | Stine Borgli (NOR) | Norway (national team) | + 7" |
| 4 | Eugenia Bujak (SLO) | BTC City Ljubljana | + 13" |
| 5 | Elise Chabbey (SUI) | Bigla Pro Cycling | + 14" |
| 6 | Eri Yonamine (JPN) | Alé–Cipollini | + 20" |
| 7 | Hanna Nilsson (SWE) | BTC City Ljubljana | + 20" |
| 8 | Julie Van de Velde (BEL) | Lotto–Soudal Ladies | + 20" |
| 9 | Nikola Nosková (CZE) | Bigla Pro Cycling | + 23" |
| 10 | Emma White (USA) | Rally UHC Cycling | + 26" |

## Classification leadership table

Classification leadership by stage :
| Stage | Winner | General classification | Points classification | Mountains classification | Young rider classification | Best Scottish rider classification | Combativity award |
| 1 | No winner | Not awarded | Eugenia Bujak | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 2 | Alison Jackson | Alison Jackson | Leah Thomas | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | Emma White | Jennifer George | Brodie Chapman |
| 3 | Leah Thomas | Leah Thomas | Leah Thomas | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | Nikola Nosková | Anna Shackley | Ann-Sophie Duyck |
| Final | Final | Leah Thomas | Leah Thomas | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | Nikola Nosková | Anna Shackley | No final award |