2015 Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
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| 2015 UCI Women's Road World Cup, race 5 of 10 | |||||||||||||
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| Race details | |||||||||||||
| Dates | 17 May 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 125 km (78 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3h 09' 45" | ||||||||||||
| Results | |||||||||||||
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 2015 UCI Women's Road World Cup | |
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| Races | |
| Round 1 | Ronde van Drenthe |
| Round 2 | Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio |
| Round 3 | Tour of Flanders |
| Round 4 | La Flèche Wallonne |
| Round 5 | Tour of Chongming Island |
| Round 6 | The Philadelphia Cycling Classic |
| Round 7 | Sparkassen Giro |
| Round 8 | Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda TTT |
| Round 9 | Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda |
| Round 10 | GP de Plouay-Bretagne |
| Teams and riders | |
| 2015 UCI Women's Teams and riders | |
The 2015 Tour of Chongming Island World Cup was a one-day road cycling race, run as part of the ninth Tour of Chongming Island, which included both a multi-stage event and a single-stage event. The single-stage race, which was part of the 2015 UCI Women's Road World Cup, was held on 17 May 2015, in Shanghai, China.
On wide, mostly flat highways, there were no significant breakaways in the first half of the race, until the duo of Liang Hongyu (China Chongming–Liv–Champion System) and Anastasia Chulkova (BePink–La Classica) established a one-minute lead over the peloton. Their advantage was slowly broken down, predominately due to the work of the Team Hitec Products riders, and they were reabsorbed into the peloton with 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) to go. In a bunch sprint, the Italian rider, Giorgia Bronzini (Wiggle–Honda) won, beating 2014 winners Kirsten Wild (Team Hitec Products) and Fanny Riberot (France national team).
Ten of the UCI women's teams entered the race, each featuring five or six riders. They were joined by eight national teams containing either four or five riders, bringing the total entry up to 93 riders.[1]
UCI Teams
- France
- Russia
- Hong Kong China
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- South Korea
- China
- Indonesia
Course
The route changed from previous years. The race started at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center and took place almost entirely on wide, straight highways, with corners predominantly being expansive ninety-degree bends. The course initially followed the Middle Ring Road, the Huaxia Elevated Road and the G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway, before entering the 10-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) tunnel under the Yangtze river to reach Changxing Island, shortly followed by a 8-kilometre-long (5.0 mi) bridge to Chongming Island, from where the route followed the course of previous years, along slightly smaller roads to the finish.[2]
Preview
After four rounds of the 2015 UCI Women's Road World Cup, there had been four different winners; Jolien D'Hoore at the Ronde van Drenthe, Lizzie Armitstead at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, Elisa Longo Borghini at the Tour of Flanders, and Anna van der Breggen at the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine. Van der Breggen led the World Cup standings as the racing moved to China for the Tour of Chongming Island, with 290 points, but her Rabobank-Liv Woman Cycling Team were not invited to take part in the event. Kirsten Wild won both the stage race and the World Cup event in 2014, and repeated her success in the 2015 stage race. She was the pre-race favourite to win the 2015 World Cup race on a course that favoured sprinters.[3]
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