2018 Lotto Belgium Tour
Male Team 04 - 07 Sep

Lotto Belgium Tour

346 Kilometers 4 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Aude Biannic
  2. Alicia González
  3. Alba Teruel
  4. Małgorzata Jasińska
  5. Lourdes Oyarbide
  6. Gloria Rodríguez
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Timetable

All four stages will finish at different times: the prologue should end around 6pm; the arrival to Dadizele is expected at 5pm; the Herselt circuit will conclude around 4.20pm; and the Geraardsbergen finale is scheduled at 3.15pm.
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Bonus

There will only be 10-6-4" bonuses at the finish of the three road stages.
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Social Media

The race's official Twitter account is @LottoBelgTour; the hashtag should be #LottoBelgiumTour.

Stages

Analysis

01
Nieuwpoort (CRI / ITT) (3.6km)
04 September
  1. 01 Aude Biannic Movistar Team 4'51"
  2. 02 Riejanne Markus WaowDeals +2"
  3. 03 Anouska Koster WaowDeals +3"
  4. 14 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +14"
  5. 16 Małgorzata Jasińska Movistar Team +15"
  6. 27 Alba Teruel Movistar Team +21"
  7. 30 Alicia González Movistar Team +23"
  8. 37 Gloria Rodríguez Movistar Team +25"
02
Moorslede - Dadizele (119.3km)
05 September
  1. 01 Lotte Kopecky Lotto Soudal 3h00'33"
  2. 02 Monique Van de Ree WaowDeals "
  3. 03 Emilia Fahlin Wiggle High5 "
  4. 10 Aude Biannic Movistar Team "
  5. 20 Małgorzata Jasińska Movistar Team "
  6. 28 Alicia González Movistar Team "
  7. 32 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
  8. 42 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
  9. 113 Gloria Rodríguez Movistar Team +4'18"
03
Herselt (109.9km)
06 September
  1. 01 Jeanne Korevaar WaowDeals 2h48'39"
  2. 02 Emilia Fahlin Wiggle High5 "
  3. 03 Lotte Kopecky Lotto Soudal "
  4. 07 Aude Biannic Movistar Team +1"
  5. 08 Alicia González Movistar Team "
  6. 11 Małgorzata Jasińska Movistar Team "
  7. 30 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
  8. 49 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
  9. 110 Gloria Rodríguez Movistar Team +2'49"
04
Geraardsbergen (115.8km)
07 September
  1. 01 Liane Lippert Team Sunweb 3h00'09"
  2. 02 Aude Biannic Movistar Team +10"
  3. 03 Emilia Fahlin Wiggle High5 +37"
  4. 08 Małgorzata Jasińska Movistar Team +44"
  5. 23 Alicia González Movistar Team +1'20"
  6. 43 Alba Teruel Movistar Team +3'21"
  7. 46 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
  8. 75 Gloria Rodríguez Movistar Team +7'14"

Analysis

The 5th edition of the Lotto Belgium Tour -a sort of women’s Tour of Belgium, though ridden entirely on Flemish roads- will be the final stagerace on foreign soil for the Movistar Team in their debut 2018 season. The month of September will kick off for the ladies directed by Jorge Sanz with a four-day even characterized by the climb, on the last stage (Friday 7th), of the biggest symbol in Belgian cycling: the Kapelmuur / Mur de Grammont.

Three days earlier (Tuesday 4th), the race will start in Nieuwpoort, in the Flemish coast, with a prologue of less than four kilometers, which will set some significant first differences. Stage one (Wednesday 5th) will bring the sprinters a clear chance, with only the gentle Kerkhof Moorslede hill as main obstacle into Dadizele’s circuit.

The ascents of the Eikenstraat and the Kapiteelberg during stage two in Herselt (Thursday 6th) will try and split the peloton before the decisive stage atop the ‘Muur’, also including two other hills pretty close to each other and Grammont: the Onzerkelestraat and the Edingsesteenweg.