2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup
Races
Table:
Date	Race	Country	Winner	Team

# 1	24 February	Geelong World Cup	Australia	Katheryn Mattis ( USA )	Webcor Builders Cycling Team

# 2	24 March	Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio	Italy	Emma Pooley ( GBR )	Team Specialized Designs For Women

# 3	6 April	Tour of Flanders for Women	Belgium	Judith Arndt ( GER )	Team High Road Women

# 4	12 April	Ronde van Drenthe	Netherlands	Chantal Beltman ( NED )	Team High Road Women

# 5	23 April	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine	Belgium	Marianne Vos ( NED )	DSB Bank

# 6	4 May	Tour de Berne	Switzerland	Susanne Ljungskog ( SWE )	Menikini - Selle Italia

# 7	31 May	La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal	Canada	Judith Arndt ( GER )	Team High Road Women

# 8	30 July	Open de Suède Vårgårda	Sweden	Kori Kelley Seehafer ( USA )	Menikini - Selle Italia

# 9	1 August	Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT	Sweden	Priska Doppmann ( SUI ) Karin Thürig ( SUI ) Christiane Soeder ( AUT ) Carla Ryan ( AUS )	Cervélo-Lifeforce Pro Cycling Team

# 10	24 August	GP de Plouay-Bretagne	France	Fabiana Luperini ( ITA )	Menikini - Selle Italia

# 11	16 September	Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt	Germany	Judith Arndt ( GER )	Team Columbia Women

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The Australia World Cup was a women 's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Australia from 1998 to 2008 as part of the UCI Women 's Road World Cup . The location of the race varied : in 1998 , it was held in Sydney ; from 1999 to 2001 , it was held in Canberra ; in 2002 it was held in the Snowy Mountains and ; from 2003 to 2008 it was held in Geelong , Victoria .
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia , is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent , the island of Tasmania , and numerous smaller islands . It is the largest country in Oceania and the world 's sixth-largest country by total area . The population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard . Australia 's capital is Canberra , and its largest city is Sydney . The country 's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne , Brisbane , Perth , and Adelaide . Indigenous Australians inhabited the continent for about 65,000 years prior to the first arrival of Dutch explorers in the early 17th century , who named it New Holland . In 1770 , Australia 's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788 , a date which became Australia 's national day . The population grew steadily in subsequent decades , and by the time of an 1850s gold rush , most of the continent had been explored and an additional five self-governing crown colonies established . On 1 January 1901 , the six colonies federated , forming the Commonwealth of Australia . Australia has since maintained a stable liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy , comprising six states and ten territories . Australia is the oldest , flattest , and driest inhabited continent , with the least fertile soils . It has a landmass of 7,617,930 square kilometres ( 2,941,300 sq mi ) .
Katheryn Curi ( born May 29 , 1974 in Goshen , Connecticut ) is an American racing cyclist who rides for the Webcor Builders Women 's Professional Cycling Team . She won the United States National Road Race Championships in Park City , Utah in June 2005 . In February 2008 she won the Geelong World Cup thereby claiming the UCI World Cup leader 's jersey . Curi received a B.A . in psychology from Mount Holyoke College in 1996 and began competing as a professional cyclist in 1999 .
Webcor Builders is a commercial construction contractor with headquarters in San Francisco , California . The firm also has regional offices in Alameda , Los Angeles , San Diego , and Hawaii , and is among the largest builders in California with clients including Starwood Lodging , Lucasfilm , Oracle Corporation , The California Academy of Sciences , eBay and Electronic Arts . It has been part of Obayashi since 2007 .
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a women 's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the comune ( municipality ) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy . Since 2008 , the Trofeo Alfredo Binda serves as the second race of the UCI Women 's Road World Cup . In 2016 the Trofeo Alfredo Binda became part of the new UCI Women 's World Tour The field of riders complete a 15.5 km circuit 8 times to determine the winner . The circuit traces Cittiglio , Brenta , Casalzuigno , Casale Alto , Cuveglio , Cuvio , Azzio , Gemonio before returning to Cittiglio . The race consists of two significant climbs on the circuit , which are the Casale Alto , in the early part of the circuit and the climb of Azzio , which typically separates the field as it is located just before the conclusion of the circuit .
Italy ( Italian : Italia [ iˈtaːlja ] ( listen ) ) , officially the Italian Republic ( Italian : Repubblica Italiana [ reˈpubblika itaˈljaːna ] ) , is a European country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands . Italy is located in south-central Europe , and it is also considered a part of Western Europe . The country covers a total area of 301,340 km2 ( 116,350 sq mi ) and shares land borders with France , Switzerland , Austria , Slovenia , and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino . Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland ( Campione ) and a maritime exclave in the Tunisian Sea ( Lampedusa ) . With around 60 million inhabitants , Italy is the third-most populous member state of the European Union . The capital and largest city is Rome ; other major cities are Milan , Naples , Turin , Palermo , Genoa , Bologna , Florence and Venice . Due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean , Italy has historically been home to myriad peoples and cultures . In addition to the various ancient peoples dispersed throughout what is now modern-day Italy , the most predominant being the Indo-European Italic peoples who gave the peninsula its name , beginning from the classical era , Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded colonies mostly in insular Italy , Greeks established settlements in the so-called Magna Graecia of Southern Italy , while Etruscans and Celts inhabited central and northern Italy respectively . An Italic tribe known as the Latins formed the Roman Kingdom in the 8th century BC , which eventually became a republic with a government of the Senate and the People . The Roman Republic initially conquered and assimilated its neighbours on the Italian peninsula , eventually expanding and conquering parts of Europe , North Africa and Asia . By the first century BC , the Roman Empire emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranean Basin and became a leading cultural , political and religious centre , inaugurating the Pax Romana , a period of more than 200 years during which Italy 's law , technology , economy , art , and literature developed . Italy remained the homeland of the Romans and the metropole of the empire , whose legacy can also be observed in the global distribution of culture , governments , Christianity and the Latin script .
Emma Jane Pooley ( born 3 October 1982 ) is an English sportswoman and former presenter on the Global Cycling Network . A former professional cyclist who specialised in time trials and hilly races , she later transferred to endurance running , duathlon and triathlon , and is currently a professional triathlete and duathlete , and the reigning quadruple world champion in long distance duathlon . She won an Olympic silver medal in the time trial in 2008 and was world time trial champion in 2010 . She has won six UCI Women 's Road World Cup one-day races , as well as several stage races including the ten-day Tour de l'Aude . She is three-times a British time trial champion and in 2010 also won the British road race championships . Pooley retired from professional cycling after the 2014 Commonwealth Games to concentrate on triathlon , duathlon and long-distance running , having won the Lausanne Marathon and the Swissman triathlon the previous year . She went on to win the ITU Powerman Duathlon World Championships at Poweran Zofingen in September 2014 and again in 2015 . On 16 December 2015 , Pooley announced that she would be returning temporarily to cycling , seeking to qualify to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio , as she felt the unusually mountainous time trial course on offer played to her strengths . [ citation needed ] In June 2016 , Pooley came out of retirement and re-signed for her former team , Lotto-Soudal Ladies , in time for the 2016 Giro Rosa . After racing in the Olympic time trial and road race she returned to duathlon with two further world championship titles at ITU Powerman Duathlon World Championships at Poweran Zofingen in September 2016 and 2017 as well as a European middle distance duathlon title in 2017 . Between February 2018 and March 2019 Pooley worked at Global Cycling Network as a presenter .
Team Specialized Designs for Women ( UCI Code : TSW ) was an elite women 's professional road bicycle racing team licensed in Switzerland that competed in national events ( NE ) , UCI-rated events ( 2.HC , 2.1 , 2.2 , 1.HC , 1.1 and 1.2 ) and UCI Women 's Road World Cup ( WC ) events . After operating under various names for seven years , it disbanded at the end of the 2008 season .
The Tour of Flanders for Women ( Dutch : Ronde van Vlaanderen voor Vrouwen ) is the women 's edition of the Tour of Flanders , an annual road bicycle racing event in Flanders , Belgium , held in early April . It is held on the same day as the men 's race , on much of the same roads but at a shorter distance . Dutch rider Mirjam Melchers and German Judith Arndt hold the record with two wins . Dutch rider Anna van der Breggen won the most recent race in 2018 . The event has been held annually since 2004 on the same day as the men 's race . From 2004 to 2015 it was part of the UCI Women 's Road World Cup . Since 2016 , the race is included in the UCI Women 's World Tour , cycling 's top-tier female elite competition . Since the first edition , organisers have included more climbs and extended the race gradually from 94 km in the first edition to 157 km in 2019 .
Belgium , [ A ] officially the Kingdom of Belgium , is a country in Western Europe . It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north , Germany to the east , Luxembourg to the southeast , France to the southwest , and the North Sea to the northwest . It covers an area of 30,689 km2 ( 11,849 sq mi ) and has a population of more than 11.5 million , making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe , with a density of 376 per square kilometre ( 970/sq mi ) . The capital and largest city is Brussels ; other major cities are Antwerp , Ghent , Charleroi and Liège . The sovereign state is a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system . Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional and linguistic grounds . It is divided into three highly autonomous regions : the Flemish Region in the north , Wallonia in the south , and the Brussels-Capital Region . Brussels is the smallest and most densely populated region , as well as the richest region in terms of GDP per capita . Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups or communities : the Dutch-speaking Flemish Community , which constitutes about 60 percent of the population , and the French-speaking Community , which comprises about 40 percent of all Belgians . A small German-speaking Community , numbering around one percent , exists in the East Cantons . The Brussels-Capital Region is officially bilingual ( French and Dutch ) , although French is the dominant language . Belgium 's linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in its political history and complex system of governance , made up of six different governments .
Judith Arndt ( born 23 July 1976 ) is a retired German professional cyclist , who last rode for the GreenEDGE-AIS cycling team . She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m pursuit event at the 1996 Summer Olympics when she was 20 . In 2004 , she won the world road race championship and came second in the Olympic road race .
Velocio-SRAM Pro Cycling , formerly known as Specialized-lululemon , was a professional cycling team based in the United States that competes in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling events . The final-season title sponsors were SRAM Corporation and Cervelo bicycles . Velocio Sports was the holding company for the team and the place-holder during a larger search for a title sponsor . Before 2012 , the team was owned by Bob Stapleton 's High Road Sports and was known in 2011 as HTC-Highroad Women . Following HTC 's withdrawal of sponsorship and the failure to find a replacement sponsor , a new company , Velocio Sports , directed by High Road 's former Marketing and Communications officer Kristy Scrymgeour , was set up to own the team , but most of the riders and other staff remained the same . High Road also operated an elite men 's professional team known most recently as HTC-Highroad , which disbanded . Prior to 2008 , the team was named T-Mobile Women . Columbia Sportswear were a title sponsor from July 2008 until the end of 2010 . In August 2015 , Scrymgeour announced that the team would be disbanded at the end of the 2015 season . Under Scrymgeour 's management , and with the introduction of team time trials world championships for trade teams in 2012 , the team has won every TTT world championships in the team 's existence .
Ronde van Drenthe ( English : Tour of Drenthe ) is an elite men 's and women 's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe , Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union . Since 1998 there is also a women 's event , known as Novilon Internationale Damesronde van Drenthe and since 2007 there is also a Ronde van Drenthe for women which was part of the UCI Women 's Road World Cup until 2015 . In 2016 , the race became part of the new UCI Women 's World Tour . Since 2005 , the men 's event is UCI 1.1 rated and is part of the UCI Europe Tour .
The Netherlands ( Dutch : Nederland , [ ˈneːdərlɑnt ] ( listen ) ) , informally Holland , is a country in Northwestern Europe with some overseas territories in the Caribbean . In Europe , it consists of 12 provinces that border Germany to the east , Belgium to the south , and the North Sea to the northwest , with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom . Together with the Caribbean Netherlands - Bonaire , Sint Eustatius and Saba - it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . The official language is Dutch and a secondary official language in the province of Friesland is West Frisian . In the north and east of the country , Low Saxon is also spoken , and in the southeast , Limburgish . In the Caribbean Netherlands English and Papiamento are recognised languages . The five largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam , Rotterdam , The Hague , Utrecht and Eindhoven . Amsterdam is the country 's most populous city and nominal capital , while The Hague holds the seat of the States General , Cabinet and Supreme Court . The Port of Rotterdam is the busiest seaport in Europe , and the busiest in any country outside Asia . Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the busiest airport in the Netherlands , and the third busiest in Europe . The country is a founding member of the EU , Eurozone , G10 , NATO , OECD and WTO , as well as a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union . It hosts several intergovernmental organisations and international courts , many of which are centered in The Hague , which is consequently dubbed 'the world 's legal capital ' .
Chantal Beltman ( born 25 August 1976 in Slagharen , Overijssel ) is a former Dutch professional cyclist . She was part of the 2008 Team High Road Women team . In 2007 this was called the T-Mobile Women cycling team . In 2006 , Beltman raced for Vrienden van het Platteland team . She is the older sister of Ghita Beltman , who is a former cyclist .
La Flèche Wallonne Féminine is a professional women 's bicycle road race held each year in Wallonia , Belgium , in April . It is part of the UCI Women 's World Tour , cycling 's season-long competition of top-tier races , in which it is the third-oldest single-day event after the Trofeo Alfredo Binda in Italy and the Emakumeen Euskal Bira in the Basque Country . The event is raced on the same day as La Flèche Wallonne for men . The race was inaugurated by Tour de France organizers ASO in 1998 and quickly became a road race classic . From 1999 onwards , the women 's Flèche Wallonne was a UCI Women 's Road Cycling World Cup event . In 2016 , the race became part of the new UCI Women 's World Tour . The Flèche Wallonne Féminine is held in conjunction with the men 's race , on much of the same roads but at a shorter distance . Likewise , the race always finishes on the steep Mur de Huy . Two Dutch riders hold the record with five wins . Marianne Vos between 2007 and 2013 . Fellow Dutch Anna van der Breggen won her fifth consecutive Flèche Wallonne in 2019 .
Marianne Vos ( pronunciation ( help·info ) ; born 13 May 1987 ) is a Dutch cyclo-cross , road bicycle racer , mountain bike racer and track racer , who currently rides for UCI Women 's WorldTeam CCC Liv . Vos has drawn comparison to Eddy Merckx as being the finest cyclist of [ her ] generation . After winning a junior European and world championship in road racing , she continued her success in senior cycling by becoming world champion in cyclo-cross and road racing at the age of 19 . Vos added track racing world championships when she won the points race in 2008 and the scratch race in 2011 . At the 2008 Summer Olympics , she won the gold medal in the points race ; at the 2012 Summer Olympics , gold in the women 's road race . She is a 3 times World Road Race Champion - in 2006 , 2012 and 2013 - and 7 times World Cyclocross Champion - in 2006 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 and 2014 .
CCC Liv ( UCI Code : CCC ) is a women 's professional cycling team , based in the Netherlands . The title sponsors are CCC , a Polish-based shoe retailer and Liv , a sub-brand of Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer Giant Bicycles . The team 's directeur sportif is Jeroen Blijlevens . Riders for CCC Liv compete in the UCI Women 's World Tour and other Elite Women 's Cycling events throughout the world .
Tour de Berne is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held in Berne , Switzerland with races for men and women .
Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a country situated in the confluence of western , central , and southern Europe . [ note 4 ] It is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons , with federal authorities seated in Bern . [ note 1 ] Switzerland is a landlocked country bordered by Italy to the south , France to the west , Germany to the north , and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east . It is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau , the Alps , and the Jura , spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 ( 15,940 sq mi ) , and land area of 39,997 km2 ( 15,443 sq mi ) . While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory , the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million is concentrated mostly on the plateau , where the largest cities are located , among them the two global cities and economic centres of Zürich and Geneva . The establishment of the Old Swiss Confederacy dates to the late medieval period , resulting from a series of military successes against Austria and Burgundy . Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire was formally recognized in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 . The Federal Charter of 1291 is considered the founding document of Switzerland which is celebrated on Swiss National Day . Since the Reformation of the 16th century , Switzerland has maintained a strong policy of armed neutrality ; it has not fought an international war since 1815 and did not join the United Nations until 2002 . Nevertheless , it pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world . Switzerland is the birthplace of the Red Cross , one of the world 's oldest and best known humanitarian organisations , and is home to numerous international organisations , including the second largest UN office . It is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association , but notably not part of the European Union , the European Economic Area or the Eurozone .
Susanne Ljungskog ( born 16 March 1976 in Halmstad ) is a Swedish cyclist . A four-time Olympian ( 1996 , 2000 , 2004 and 2008 ) , she won the world road race championship in 2002 and 2003 . The same years , she was UCI points champion . She has also won two World Cup races . Ljungskog received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 2002 .
The Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal ( English : Women 's Cycling World Cup of Montreal , or simply Montreal World Cup ) was an elite women 's professional road bicycle racing event held annually between 1998 and 2009 in Montréal , Quebec , Canada as part of the UCI Women 's Road Cycling World Cup season .
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America . Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean , covering 9.98 million square kilometres ( 3.85 million square miles ) , making it the world 's second-largest country by total area . Its southern border with the United States , stretching some 8,891 kilometres ( 5,525 mi ) , is the world 's longest bi-national land border . Canada 's capital is Ottawa , and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto , Montreal , and Vancouver . As a whole , Canada is sparsely populated , with most of its land area dominated by forest and tundra . Its population is highly urbanized , with over 80 percent of its inhabitants concentrated in large and medium-sized cities , and 70 percent residing within 100 kilometres ( 62 mi ) of the southern border . Canada 's climate varies widely across its vast area , ranging from Arctic climate in the north to hot summers in the southern regions , with four distinct seasons . Various indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization . Beginning in the 16th century , British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast . As a consequence of various armed conflicts , France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 . In 1867 , with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation , Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces . This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom .
Open de Suède Vårgårda is an elite professional women 's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden . Created in 2006 , the Open de Suède Vårgårda was part of the UCI Women 's Road World Cup until 2015 and sanctioned by the Swedish Cycling Federation . Since 2016 , the race has been part of the new UCI Women 's World Tour . Since 2008 , a team time trial has been held in conjunction with the main race as a part of the UCI Women 's Road World Cup .
Sweden ( Swedish : Sverige [ ˈsvæ̌rjɛ ] ( listen ) ) , officially the Kingdom of Sweden ( Swedish : Konungariket Sverige [ ˈkôːnɵŋaˌriːkɛt ˈsvæ̌rjɛ ] ( listen ) ) , is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east , and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund Strait . At 450,295 square kilometres ( 173,860 sq mi ) , Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe , the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area . The capital city is Stockholm . Sweden has a total population of 10.3 million of which 2.5 million have a foreign background . Persons who have foreign backgrounds are defined as persons who are foreign born , or born in Sweden with foreign born parents . It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre ( 57/sq mi ) and the highest urban concentration is in the central and southern half of the country . Sweden is part of the geographical area of Fennoscandia . The climate is in general mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence . In spite of the high latitude , Sweden often has warm continental summers , being located in between the North Atlantic , the Baltic Sea and the vast Eurasian Russian landmass . The general climate and environment varies significantly from the south and north due to the vast latitudal difference and much of Sweden has reliably cold and snowy winters . Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural , while the north is heavily forested and includes a portion of the Scandinavian Mountains .
Kori Kelley Seehafer ( born 30 April 1975 ) is a road cyclist from United States . She represented her nation at the 2005 and 2008 UCI Road World Championships .
The 2008 Open de Suède Vårgårda - team time trial was the first team time trial running on the Open de Suède Vårgårda . It was held on 1 August 2008 over a distance of 32 kilometres ( 19.9 miles ) and was the ninth race of the 2008 UCI Women 's Road World Cup season .
Priska Doppmann ( born 10 May 1971 ) is a Swiss road racing cyclist , born in Cham . She was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1999 . She finished 7th in the Women 's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics . Currently [ when ? ] , she is a manager for the women 's team Garmin-Cervélo .
Karin Thürig ( born 4 July 1972 in Rothenburg ) is a Swiss professional racing cyclist and triathlete . She is the winner of the 2004 and 2005 UCI Road World Championships - Women 's time trial . In 2011 , she took second at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship .
Christiane Soeder ( born January 15 , 1975 in Remscheid , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German-born Austrian road racing cyclist and former duathlete who now lives in Vienna . She won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2004 , 2006 and 2009 . She finished fourth in the 2008 Olympic road race with a time of 3h 32′ 28 . She rides professionally for Garmin-Cervélo .
Carla Ryan ( born 21 September 1985 ) is a former Australian professional racing cyclist . She was previously a distance runner before taking up cycling in 2005 as a result of a Queensland Academy of Sport talent ID programme . She has won multiple Australian National Road Race Championships .
Garmin-Cervélo was an elite professional women 's cycling team registered in Great Britain and racing on the UCI Women 's Road World Cup circuit . The team was previously known was Cervélo-Lifeforce Pro Cycling Team , but in 2009 , with the creation of the UCI Professional Continental team Cervélo TestTeam , the women 's team changed names to match the men 's team . When the men 's Cervélo TestTeam merged with Garmin-Transitions for the 2011 season , the team changed names again , becoming Garmin-Cervélo to again match the men 's team . In 2007 , the team was known as Raleigh-Lifeforce-Creation and prior to 2007 , the team was known as the Univega Pro Cycling Team . The Garmin-Cervélo women 's team disbanded at the end of 2011 due to funding problems . Six of its ten riders , including all four Britons , transferred to the AA Drink-leontien.nl team for the 2012 season .
The Grand Prix de Plouay - Lorient Agglomération is an elite professional women 's road bicycle race held in Plouay , France . It is organized annually since 2002 , on the day of the men 's race and on the same circuit . The race consists of four 26,9 km laps and two 13,9 km lap , totalling 135,4 km . The race was part of the UCI Women 's Road World Cup until 2015 . In 2016 , the race became part of the new UCI Women 's World Tour .
France ( French : [ fʁɑ̃s ] ( listen ) ) , officially the French Republic ( French : République française , pronounced [ ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz ] ( listen ) ) , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . [ XIII ] The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . It is bordered by Belgium , Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast , Switzerland and Italy to the east , and Andorra and Spain to the south . The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . The country 's 18 integral regions ( five of which are situated overseas ) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres ( 248,573 sq mi ) and a total population of 67.02 million ( as of July 2019 [ update ] ) . France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris , the country 's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban areas include Lyon , Marseille , Toulouse , Bordeaux , Lille and Nice . France , including its overseas territories , has the most number of time zones of any country , with a total of 12 . During the Iron Age , what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls , a Celtic people . Rome annexed the area in 51 BC , holding it until the arrival of Germanic Franks in 476 , who formed the Kingdom of Francia . The Treaty of Verdun of 843 partitioned Francia into East Francia , Middle Francia and West Francia . West Francia , which became the Kingdom of France in 987 , emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages , following its victory in the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337-1453 ) .
Fabiana Luperini ( born 14 January 1974 in Pontedera ) is an Italian professional cyclist . Luperini has won the Giro d'Italia Femminile a record five times , with four consecutive victories in 1995-1998 and a fifth ten years later , in 2008 . She has won the Grande Boucle Féminine three times consecutively , from 1995 to 1997 . In 1998 she won the Tour de l'Aude , and in 2006 she won the Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira .
Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt ( English : Tour of Old Town Nuremberg ) is an elite men 's and women 's professional road bicycle racing event held each September in the old town section of Nuremberg , Germany .
Germany ( German : Deutschland , German pronunciation : [ ˈdɔʏtʃlant ] ) , constitutionally the Federal Republic of Germany ( German : Bundesrepublik Deutschland , listen ( help·info ) ) , [ f ] is a country in Central and Western Europe . It borders Denmark to the north , Poland and the Czech Republic to the east , Austria and Switzerland to the south , France to the southwest , and Luxembourg , Belgium , and the Netherlands to the west . Germany includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres ( 137,988 sq mi ) , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With 83 million inhabitants , it is the second most populous state of Europe after Russia , the most populous state lying entirely in Europe , as well as the most populous member state of the European Union . Germany is a very decentralised country . Its capital and largest metropolis is Berlin , while Frankfurt serves as its financial capital and has the country 's busiest airport . Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity . A region named Germania was documented before AD 100 . Beginning in the 10th century , German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire . During the 16th century , northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation . After the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire , the German Confederation was formed in 1815 . The German revolutions of 1848-49 resulted in the Frankfurt Parliament establishing major democratic rights .