| 2016 UCI Women's World Tour, race 1 of 17 | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | 5 March 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 121 km (75.19 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3h 30' 13" | ||||||||||||
| Results | |||||||||||||
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The second edition of the women's Strade Bianche was held on 5 March 2016, in Tuscany, Italy. British world champion Lizzie Armitstead won the race, in bad weather, ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Emma Johansson.[1]
The women's Strade Bianche served as the first event of the inaugural UCI Women's World Tour, the highest level of professional women's cycling.[2][3] The race is organized on the same day as the men's event, at a shorter distance, but on much of the same roads.[3]
The Strade Bianche is a one day cycling race starting in and finishing in Siena,[3] notorious for its long sections of white gravel roads (sterratiorstrade bianche in Italian). The course runs over hilly terrain in the province of Siena, for a total of 121 km, featuring seven sectors and 22.4 km of dirt roads.[3][4] Six sectors were in common with the men's route.[5] The race finished on Siena's Piazza del Campo, after a narrow ascent on the roughly-paved Via Santa Caterina in the heart of the medieval city.
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Lizzie Armitstead (GBR)
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Boels–Dolmans | 3h 30' 13" |
| 2 |  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)
|
Rabo–Liv | + 3" |
| 3 |  Emma Johansson (SWE)
|
Wiggle High5 | + 13" |
| 4 |  Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)
|
Wiggle High5 | + 1' 04" |
| 5 |  Anna van der Breggen (NED)
|
Rabo–Liv | + 1' 07" |
| 6 |  Megan Guarnier (USA)
|
Boels–Dolmans | + 1' 07" |
| 7 | Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)
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Orica–AIS | + 1' 13" |
| 8 |  Claudia Lichtenberg (GER)
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Lotto–Soudal Ladies | + 1' 17" |
| 9 |  Lauren Kitchen (AUS)
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Team Hitec Products | + 1' 17" |
| 10 |  Leah Kirchmann (CAN)
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Team Liv–Plantur | + 1' 21" |
