Women's Cycling

Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish produced two world record-winning performances for Britain Friday

Friday morning saw a women's team sprint record broken, just to have it broken again in the afternoon

The pair beat their own record, clocking a time of 32.828sec

• 1. Anne Samplonius, Now Cycling/now And Novartis For Ms, in 59'06
• 2. Kristin Armstrong Savola, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at s.t.
• 3. Lauren Hall, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at s.t.
• 4. Kristin McGrath, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at 3
• 5. Kristin Sanders, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at 6

ASPEN, Colo. (VN) — With the excitement of the incoming 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge as a backdrop, Olympic champion Kristin Armstrong of the Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12 team rode to overall victory in the inaugural 2011 Aspen/Snowmass Women's Pro Stage Race Wednesday before tens of thousands of cycling fans on the streets of downtown Aspen.

Stage

• 1. Kristin Armstrong Savola, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, in 1.35'58"
• 2. Janel Holcomb, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at 40  
• 3. Anne Samplonius, Now Cycling/now And Novartis For Ms, at 2:37  
• 4. Kristin Mcgrath, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at 2:37  
• 5. Andrea Dvorak, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at 2:37  

SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. (VN )— Kristin Armstrong (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) soloed to victory in Tuesday's 35 mile stage 2 road race to take the overall lead in the 2011 Aspen/Snowmass Women's Pro Stage Race.

• 1. Kristin McGrath (Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12) 0:29:15.50
• 2. Kristin Armstrong-Savola (Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12) 0:00:03.52
• 3. Janel Holcomb (Colavita / Forno D'Asolo) 0:00:16.34
• 4. Amanda Miller (HTC Columbia Women's Team) 0:00:46.93
• 5. Kelly Crowley (Metromint Cycling) 0:00:47.83

ASPEN HIGHLANDS, Colo. (VN) — Kristin McGrath of the Peanut Butter & Co.-TWENTY 12 team won the opening stage of the three-day Aspen Snowmass Women’s Pro Stage Race on Monday, completing the 7.8 mile course from the Aspen Highlands ski resort up Maroon Bells Road in 29 minutes and 15 seconds, climbing about 1,500 feet in altitude along the way.

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HTC-Highroad ended the three-day Giro di Trentino stage race on a high note as Judith Arndt fended off her rivals to claim the overall victory on Sunday.

Specialized's new carbon hardtail is billed as the first race-ready 29er rig built specifically for women.

After a 23-year hiatus, Aspen, Colorado, will once again host international professional men’s cycling this summer, when the USA Pro Cycling Challenge comes to town. But two-time national champion and Aspen resident Jessica Phillips wasn’t content to simply watch the men. She wanted women to have a chance to race as well.

2011 Women’s Tour of Flanders

• 1. Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Nederland Bloeit, in 3:36:03
• 2. Tatiana Antoshina (Rus) Gauss, at 0:01
• 3. Marianne Vos (Ned) Nederland Bloeit, at 0:10
• 4. Emma Johansson (Swe) Hitec Products-UCK, at 0:10
• 5. Judith Arndt (Ger) HTC Highroad Women, at 0:10

The Women's Prestige Cycling Series kicks off Thursday with the Redlands Bicycle Classic in California.

• 1. Emma JOHANSSON, (SWE) Team Hitec Products Uck, in 3:38:05
• 2. Andrea BOSMAN, (NED), at s.t.
• 3. Chantal BLAAK, (NED) Leontien.Nl, at s.t.
• 4. Loes GUNNEWIJK, (NED), at s.t.
• 5. Elisa LONGO BORGHINI, (ITA) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo Raxy Line, at 4

Final Overall:

• 1. Judith ARNDT, (GER) HTC-Highroad, at 11:50:56
• 2. Catherine CHEATLEY, (NZL), at 4
• 3. Ruth CORSET, (AUS), at 12
• 4. Shara GILLOW, (AUS), at 1:05
• 5. Emily COLLINS, (NZL), at 1:29

Luna's new Sport clothing line was inspired by the women on the Luna Pro Team, which consists of mountain and road riders and triathletes.

After thinking her days in Holland were over, Neben finds herself back — and actually enjoying the racing this time.

Grace Verbeke wins the women's Tour of Flanders.

Grace Verbeke (Lotto) wins the women’s Tour of Flanders.

Contested Sunday alongside the Ronde Van Vlaanderen will be the seventh running of the women’s Tour of Flanders, or Ronde Van Vlaanderen Vrouwen, which begins in the town of Oodenarde and loops east, also ending in Meerbeke, near Ninove.

The women’s 10-round World Cup series continues Sunday with the 7th Tour of Flanders in Belgium.

Fontana Pro XCT 2010: Pro men and women short-track results.

Shelley Evans (Team USA) takes the final stage and the overall title as the Women's Tour of New Zealand concludes.

2010 Women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad results

American Shelley Evans retook the overall lead at the Tour of New Zealand, winning the tour’s fifth stage in a field sprint ahead of Australian champion Ruth Corset and China's Xin Liu and gaining enough bonus time to move ahead of teammate Amber Neben.

Shelley Evans of the U.S. National Team is undefeated so far at the 2010 Women's Tour of New Zealand, after winning the second stage in a field sprint ahead of Xin Liu Gia and Yiu Wong Wan, both of China's Giant Pro Cycling Team.

Shelley Evans, racing for the U.S. national team, won the opening stage of the Women's Tour of New Zealand Wednesday and takes the first leader's jersey of the six-stage race.

2010 Women's Tour of New Zealand results