Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s World Championship Road Race 2017

Lizzie Armitstead wins the 2015 Women's World Road Championships in Richmond Virginia

The Women’s road race has to be my favorite one-day road race after Paris-Roubaix and de Ronde van Vlaanderen. Those two races are obviously on a pedestal that no mortal race could ever hope to achieve.

But what I love about those classics is also what I love about the women’s road race: unpredictability. Set over a tough course, the girls are sure to make an interesting race around Bergen – especially with powerhouse riders like Mary V and Queen Lizzy being on the comeback trail and lacking some of their usual dominance.

So start your engines, check the start list, and good luck.

frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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David van Dijk says:

Sep 22 2017 at 10:51 am
I have to mention Ellen somewhere, we share surname after

all (not related as far as I know though)

VSP PICKS:
1. Vos
2. Borghini
3. vd Breggen
4. Riviera
5. van Dijk
tony macaroni says:

Sep 22 2017 at 10:52 am
VSP PICKS:
1. van der Breggen
2. Coryn Rivera
3. Chloe Hoskin
4. van Vleuten
5. Borghini
mulebeatsdrums says:

Sep 22 2017 at 12:00 pm
Lizzie just had an operation to get her appendix removed. That's arguably disadvantageous, but I theorise she just wanted to shed those few appendix grammes!

Also I totally agree with @frank that women's Worlds is one of the best races on the calendar.

VSP PICKS:
1. Van Der Breggen
2. Ferrand-Prevot
3. Van Vleuten
4. Hosking
5. Deignan
taon24 says:

Sep 22 2017 at 1:47 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Vleuten
2. Ferrand-Prevot
3. Deignan
4. Vos
5. Borghini
MangoDave says:

Sep 22 2017 at 2:02 pm
Really hoping it's Vos, despite putting her 2nd here.

VSP PICKS:
1. van der Breggen
2. Vos
3. van Dijk
4. van Vleuten
5. Ferrand-Prevot
LeoTea says:

Sep 22 2017 at 3:10 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Coryn Rivera
2. Anna van der Breggen
3. Bronzini
4. Van Vleuten
5. Queen Lizzie
Quadzilla says:

Sep 22 2017 at 4:02 pm
double rainbow

VSP PICKS:
1. Van Vleuten
2. Vos
3. Anna van der Breggen
4. Elvin
5. Where’s Lizzie
dancollins says:

Sep 22 2017 at 4:51 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Annemiek Van Vleuten
2. Anna van der Breggen
3. Jolien d'Hoore
4. Coryn Rivera
5. Elisa Longo Borghini
wiscot says:

Sep 22 2017 at 5:12 pm
To the divine Ms Vos, forgve me for putting you in 4th. Prove me wrong!'

Rivera rode TOAD in my wee home town of

West Bend, WI this summer. That's reason enough for me to put her #1.

VSP PICKS:
1. Rivera
2. Deignan
3. van der Breggen
4. d"hooore
5. Vos
sthilzy says:

Sep 22 2017 at 5:58 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. van Vleuten
2. van der Breggan
3. Rivera
4. Niewiadoma
5. Broghini