2018 Setmana Valenciana
Male Team 22 - 25 Feb

Setmana Valenciana

488 Kilometers 4 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Mavi García
  2. Alicia González
  3. Alba Teruel
  4. Lorena Llamas
  5. Eider Merino
  6. Lourdes Oyarbide
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TV

There should be live images from every stage at Sportpublic's YouTube channel.
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Timetable

The two opening stages (Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd) will be held in the afternoon, 2pm to 5pm Euro time. Saturday 24th's long ride to Valencia will be raced from noon to 3.45pm. Fhe final stage (Benidorm, Sunday 25th) will be a ridden from noon to 3.15pm (average expected finish).
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Bonus

There will be 10-6-4 seconds up for grabs at all finishes, with 3-2-1" awarded at each of the two intermediate sprints available in every stage.
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Social Media

The race's official Twitter handle is @SetmanaCiclista; the hashtag used by the organisers is #SCV2018. Our account @Movistar_Team will include thorough coverage of this debut race for our squad in the UCI Women's peloton, sharing space with the men's Abu Dhabi Tour also held this week.

Stages

Analysis

01
Ròtova - Gandia (118km)
22 February
  1. 01 Hannah Barnes Canyon-SRAM 3h06'21''
  2. 02 Ashleigh Moolman Cervélo-Bigla m.t.
  3. 03 Marta Bastianelli Alé Cipollini m.t.
  4. 04 Alicia González Movistar Team m.t.
  5. 14 Mavi García Movistar Team +3''
  6. 21 Lorena Llamas Movistar Team +6''
  7. 22 Eider Merino Movistar Team +13"
  8. 33 Alba Teruel Movistar Team + 2'37''
  9. 52 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team m.t.
02
Castellón - Villarreal (115km)
23 February
  1. 01 Marta Bastianelli Alé Cipollini 3h00'35"
  2. 02 Hannah Barnes Canyon-SRAM m.t.
  3. 03 Alicia González Movistar Team m.t.
  4. 05 Mavi García Movistar Team m.t.
  5. 06 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team m.t.
  6. 09 Alba Teruel Movistar Team m.t.
  7. 62 Lorena Llamas Movistar Team m.t.
  8. 64 Eider Merino Movistar Team m.t.
03
Sagunto - Valencia (137km)
24 February
  1. 01 Nicole Steigenga Swabo 3h33'11"
  2. 02 Lotta Lepistö Cervélo-Bigla +8"
  3. 03 Marta Bastianelli Alé Cipollini m.t.
  4. 09 Alicia González Movistar Team m.t.
  5. 13 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team m.t.
  6. 44 Mavi García Movistar Team m.t.
  7. 59 Eider Merino Movistar Team m.t.
  8. 81 Lorena Llamas Movistar Team m.t.
  9. 119 Alba Teruel Movistar Team m.t.
04
Benidorm (118km)
25 February
  1. 01 Hannah Barnes Canyon-SRAM 3h'07'29"
  2. 02 Ashleigh Moolman Cervélo-Bigla m.t.
  3. 03 Alicia González Movistar Team m.t.
  4. 05 Mavi García Movistar Team m.t.
  5. 20 Lorena Llamas Movistar Team +2'39"
  6. 23 Eider Merino Movistar Team m.t.
  7. 34 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +7'23"
  8. 87 Alba Teruel Movistar Team +11'35"

Analysis

The 2nd edition of the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana will be a landmark for the Abarca Sports organisation, competing with a UCI Women’s team for the first time in its history. The six riders selected to wear the Blue colours at the Spanish event will have to tackle a really interesting course, with no easy days and tough, long stages that should see fireworks from start to finish.

The province of Valencia will hold the inaugural stage (118km, Thursday 22nd), the route going through Benigànim -the hometown of Alba Teruel- and covering two lumpy climbs in its finale: Barxeta (Cat-3) and most notably Barx (Cat-2), 6km at 5.6%. A day later (Friday 23rd), the Desierto de las Palmas ascent (Cat-1; 7.5km at 5%) will try to avoid a sprint finish in Villarreal, though the distance from its summit (40k) could make easier for the fastmen to go for the win in this Castellón stage.

Valencia’s City Council square will receive the riders at the end of the longest stage (Saturday 24th), 137km with the Alto del Oronet (Cat-2) around fifty kilometers from the finish. The decisive stage (Sunday 25th) will, in turn, be the hardest one, with three laps of a long circuit in Alicante, through Benidorm, La Vila and most notably the Finestrat (Cat-2), seven kilometers long with a 5% average gradient.