2017 Tour of Flanders for Women
The 2017 Tour of Flanders for Women was the 14th running of the Tour of Flanders for Women, a women's bicycle race in Belgium. It was held on 2 April 2017, as the fifth race of the 2017 UCI Women's World Tour season over a distance of 153.2 kilometres.
The Muur van Geraardsbergen was the seventh of 12 climbs.
Elisa Longo Borghini (pictured at Oude Kwaremont) lost the Women's World Tour leader's jersey to race winner Coryn Rivera.
Tour of Flanders for Women
The Tour of Flanders, formerly the Tour of Flanders for Women, is 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 riders Mirjam Melchers, Annemiek van Vleuten, Belgian Lotte Kopecky and German Judith Arndt hold the record with two wins each. Elisa Longo Borghini won the most recent edition in 2024.
Josephine Groenveld (in blue) and Fabiana Luperini (in orange) at the 2006 race on the Muur van Geraardsbergen
Peloton on the lower slopes of Oude Kwaremont at the 2015 event.
Lizzie Deignan leads a group ahead of Anna van der Breggen and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot on Oude Kwaremont.
Start of the 2018 Tour of Flanders on the market square in Oudenaarde.
