2018 Festival Elsy Jacobs
Male Team 27 - 29 Apr

Festival Elsy Jacobs

210 Kilometers 3 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Aude Biannic
  2. Alicia González
  3. Alba Teruel
  4. Rachel Neylan
  5. Lourdes Oyarbide
  6. Gloria Rodríguez
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TV

The event will be streamed live on the event's official website. The broadcast will start at 6pm on Friday, 3.30pm on Saturday and 3pm on Sunday.
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Timetable

The prologue will finish around 7.30pm; stage one (Saturday 28th) should end at 5.30pm; and Sunday 29th's showdown is expected to finish around 5pm.
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Bonus

There will be bonus seconds up for grabs only the finish of stages one and two: 10-6-4" for the top three finishers.
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Social Media

The race's official Twitter account is @Festival_Elsy; the hashtag specified by the organisers is #elsy18. Over at @Movistar_Team we'll be keeping a close eye on our ladies' last trip to Central Europe in this long 'spring', before they take on a big month of May on Spanish soil.

Stages

Analysis

01
Cessange (CRI / ITT) (2.8km)
27 April
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  1. 01 Lisa Klein Canyon-SRAM 4'00"
  2. 02 Amy Pieters Boels-Dolmans "
  3. 03 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig Cervélo-Bigla +1"
  4. 11 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +5"
  5. 28 Alicia González Movistar Team +9"
  6. 30 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
  7. 32 Aude Biannic Movistar Team +11"
  8. 35 Rachel Neylan Movistar Team +13"
  9. 63 Gloria Rodríguez Movistar Team +21"
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Steinfort - Steinfort (98km)
28 April
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  1. 01 Christine Majerus Boels-Dolmans 2h30'10"
  2. 02 Alexis Ryan Canyon-SRAM "
  3. 03 Eugenia Bujak BTC City Ljubljana "
  4. 14 Alicia González Movistar Team "
  5. 28 Aude Biannic Movistar Team "
  6. 31 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
  7. 59 Rachel Neylan Movistar Team "
  8. 61 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
  9. 93 Gloria Rodríguez Movistar Team +2'57"
03
Garnich - Garnich (110km)
29 April
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  1. 01 Letizia Paternoster Astana Women’s Team 2h52'01''
  2. 02 Lotta Lepistö Canyon-SRAM "
  3. 03 Elisa Balsamo Valcar PBM "
  4. 10 Alicia González Movistar Team "
  5. 13 Aude Biannic Movistar Team "
  6. 27 Rachel Neylan Movistar Team + 7''
  7. 64 Alba Teruel Movistar Team + 8'05''
  8. 65 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
  9. 66 Gloria Rodríguez Movistar Team "

Analysis

The Movistar Team will be putting an end to their spring campaign with the second stagerace of their young history. The race which honours the memory of the first ever women’s road cycling world champion is a beautiful, three-day event in Luxembourg, which starts off with a short TT -barely 2.8 kilometers in Cessange (Friday 27th April), just outside the capital- and follows with two rolling, exciting stages around the Grand Duchy, with surely plenty of attacks.

Saturday’s stage one will see riders covering 98km around Steinfort, with six laps of a circuit including the hill of Koerich (300m at almost 8%) and a previous passage through Kopstal (1,400m, 7.8%). Sunday’s stage two (Sunday 29th), in turn, will be a 110km journey, starting and finishing in Garnich, with a climb just after the finish (1,200m, 4.3%) to try and avoid the sprint finish.