Giorgia Bronzini wins overall Tour of Zhoushan Island
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini took her first ever overall stage race victory in the 2013 Tour of Zhoushan Island, in China, as she held on to her overall lead on the hilly final stage. With only second place overall Elisa Longo Borghini (Hitec Products) to worry about in the general classification, the two-time former World champion managed to stay with the Trofeo Binda World Cup race winning climber on the hilly course, and finished one place ahead of her at the finish. The stage was won by Longo Borghini’s teammate Cecilie...
read moreBronzini maintains lead with second place in Zhoushan Island stage two
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini maintained her overall lead in the Tour of Zhoushan Island as she sprinted to second place on the second stage of the race. In a chaotic final few hundred metres the former two-time World champion was just beaten to the line by Norwegian Cecilie Johnsen (Hitec Products) at the end of the flat 89.7km stage. Chinese Taipei rider Huang Ting Ying finished third for the second day in a row. “It was extremely close,” said Bronzini’s Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling teammate and team manager. “There...
read moreBronzini wins opening stage of Zhoushan Island Tour in breakaway sprint
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini continued her winning ways as she took victory in the opening stage of the Tour of Zhoushan Island, outsprinting Trofeo Binda World Cup winner Elisa Longo Borghini in a two-up sprint. The two Italians had escaped a breakaway group with 15km of the hilly 81.3km course remaining, with climber Longo Borghini doing all she could to shake off sprinter Bronzini on the way to the finish. Third place was taken by Chinese Taipei rider Huang Ting Ying, at the head of a seven-rider group a minute and 12...
read moreSchnitzmeier can’t resist High5′s caramel sports bar
Whether you’re racing on weekends, or you’re racing Grand Tours, you expend a lot of energy on the bike. To fuel your body, you need to make sure you are providing it with all the essential nutrients – and something that tastes good too. I can confidently tell you that High5 products are exactly what your body is looking for. That feeling you get when you grab your bar out of your pocket, knowing it is fuelling your performance (and it is going to taste amazing) is an absolutely satisfied feeling. Just imagine you’re in a stage race,...
read moreMayuko Hagiwara takes her first European victory in hilly Dinant race
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Mayuko Hagiwara took the first European victory of her career at the Championnat de Wallonie Kermesse in Foy Notre Dame, near Dinant in Southern Belgium on Sunday. The eight-time Japanese champion, resplendent in her distinctive “Hinomaru” flag jersey, escaped from a select group of riders on the last of the race’s seven 12.7km laps and soloed to the finish. Behind Hagiwara, Kaat Hannes (Lotto-Belisol) outsprinted CycleLive Plus-Zannata duo Annelies Van Doorslaer and Liz Hatch in the race for second...
read moreBronzini comments on her Campagnolo EPS super record components
What comes up in your mind when I ask you about cycling and Italy? For sure one of the first words will be Campagnolo. It’s probably the most famous brand from Italy. I’m proud to ride Campagnolo on my bike this year, even if I’m Italian, I can say – it’s defiantly the best shifter in the world. Having the possibility to change gears as fast as you want, to know its working correct in every race is just giving me a one hundred percent safe feeling on the bike. I’ve already won four races this year on my Colnago...
read moreGiorgia Bronzini Takes Second Place In Chongming Island World Cup
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini won the bunch sprint for second place in the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup race after the peloton was sent the wrong way in the closing kilometres and so was unable to catch a lone breakaway rider. Ukrainian Tetyana Riabchenko (Chirio Forno d’Asolo) had escaped with just over 15km to go, and was being hunted down by a strong chase from Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling when the entire peloton was forced to stop. By the time the bunch got started again Riabchenko had built up an unassailable lead...
read moreFifth Place For Giorgia Bronzini In Final Chongming Island Tour Stage
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini took fifth place in a hectic bunch sprint at the end of the third and final stage of the Tour of Chongming Island at Shanghai East Beach. The former two-time World road champion was just unable to repeat her stunning victory from the previous day as the sprinters fanned out in the final dash for the line. Commonwealth champion Rochelle Gilmore also sprinted to tenth place, to put two Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling riders in the top ten. “It’s not the result that we wanted,” admitted Wiggle Honda...
read moreBronzini sprints to victory in a rainy second stage of the Chongming Island Tour
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini put the disappointment of the previous day’s eleventh place well and truly behind her with an emphatic sprint victory in the second stage of the Tour of Chongming Island in Chongxi. The former two-time World road champion, who was almost brought down by a crash in the final two kilometres of stage one, found a clear path to the line this time and powered past of Chloe Hosking (Hitec Products) to win by almost a bike length. Annette Edmondson (Orica-AIS) – who was the rider to have been...
read moreBronzini held up by late crash in opening stage of Chongming Island Tour
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini managed to salvage eleventh place in the first stage of the Tour of Chongming Island after almost being taken down in a crash in the final two kilometres. The former two-time road World champion had positioned herself well near the front of the peloton, but the rider in front of her was taken out by a wayward rider and Bronzini was lucky not to have also been brought down. “There was a crash at one of the intermediate sprints, and then one close to the finish, but luckily none of our riders were...
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