There are many beautiful names on the list of participants of the first gravel riding World Cup. Starting: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Elisa Longo-Borghini, Tiffany Cromwell, Eva Lechner, Lauren Stephens, Riejanne Markus, Rachel Neylan and Puck Moonen.
The women will be pushed under the wheels for 140 km between the center of Vicenza and the Citadel of the northern Italian city. At the start of the race there are two climbs, after which it goes almost all the time along two rivers (Bacchiglione and Brenta) to the finish.
The division of the course is as follows: 32% unpaved roads, 24% hard gravel, 1% cobblestones, 10% “hard surface” and 31% asphalt. A total of 700 vertical meters have to be conquered.
Who will be the first world champion in this discipline?
