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Summer Olympics 2016: Road Race - Women

Summer Olympics 2016 Rio: Van der Breggen takes gold ahead of Johansson and Longo Borghini

At 141 kilometers, the women's Olympic road race is played out a grueling parcours with tough climbs and cobbles. Van Vleuten is in the lead in the last descent when she crashes. Mara Abbott takes over, yet she is caught by a chasing group with Van der Breggen in the last few hundred metres. Then the Dutchie sprints to victory.

Summer Olympics 2016 Rio: Route road race – women

Summer Olympics 2016 Rio: Route road race – women

Sunday, August 7, 2016 – At 141 kilometers, everything is there in the women's Olympic road race: tough climbs, flat sections, cobbles... The route in Rio is definitely one to look foward to.

Summer Olympics 2016 Rio: Riders road race – women

The Olympic road race women is held on Sunday 7 August. Title defender Marianne Vos faces strong competition by the likes of World Champion Elizabeth Armitstead and former World Champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list for the women's road race at the Summer Olympics in Rio.

Summer Olympics 2016 Rio: Favourites road race – women

The Olympic road race for women is played out on a mountainous circuit, while the finale is on flat roads. So in order to win you definitely need to be a climber, yet that's not the whole story. Given the finale a fast sprint or time trialing skills would come in handy, too.

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