Photo gallery: Highlights from the 2015 Tour of Flanders
Elisa Longo Borghini (Wiggle Honda) crossed the finish line in Oudenaarde alone. The Italian won the Tour of Flanders with a bold move just beyond the Kanarieberg with nearly an hour still left to race. She attacked alone and held off an elite group of chasers to win the second World Cup of her young career.
Jolien d’Hoore gave Wiggle Honda further reason to celebrate. Outsprinting a nine-rider chase group to take second place, d’Hoore also moved into the Women’s World Cup series lead. Anna van der Breggen (Rabo Liv) rounded out the podium.
The photo gallery below captures all the cobbled, climby action out Flanders. Looking for our original race report? You can find that here. This race highlights video hosted on the UCI YouTube channel includes pre-race conversations, race footage and an interview with The Suffer Prize presented by The Sufferfest winner Annemiek van Vleuten (Bigla), who was best of the race in fourth place.
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- Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Rabo-Liv) headlined a strong Rabo Liv team for Tour of Flanders
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- Emma Johansson (Orica-AIS) lined up for Tour of Flanders less than three weeks after breaking her collarbone at Novilon Cup. Johansson is an adopted local, and the race goes through her Belgian hometown of Zingem.
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- Bigla has been knocking on the door of a big win these last few weeks. Ashleigh Moolman and Annemiek van Vleuten gave the Swiss-registered squad multiple cards to play.
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- The peloton remained bunched together until the first cobbled climb – the Molenberg.
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- These cobbles are part of Emma Johansson’s regular training routes.
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- Carlee Taylor (Lotto-Soudal) made her Tour of Flanders debut on Sunday
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- Annemiek van Vleuten (Bigla) initiated multiple escapes. This was a solo move just before the Kanarieberg.
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- Ellen van Dijk (Boels-Dolmans) leads the chase. The defending champion seemed to be working in support of her teammate Lizzie Armitstead.
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- Elisa Longo Borghini (Wiggla Honda) launched her race-winning move just beyond the Kanarieberg. She was able to do the distance and hold off the chasers all the way to the finish line in Oudenaarde
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- Trixi Worrack (Velocio-SRAM) gave chase alone but was eventually swallowed up by the peloton.
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- Still solo over the Paterberg. From here, it’s 13km to the finish.
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- An elite nine-rider group formed in Longo Borghini’s wake.
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- The chase group begins to splinter over the Paterberg with World Cup leader Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans) and world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Rabo Liv) leading the way.
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- How hard is Tour of Flanders? This hard.
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- Elisa Longo Borghini is overwhelmed with emotion as she crosses the finish line to win the 2015 Tour of Flanders.
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- Double delight for Wiggle Honda as Joline d’Hoore wins the chase group sprint for second place.
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- 2015 Tour of Flanders podium: 1. Elisa Longo Borghini 2. Jolien d’Hoore 3. Anna van der Breggen (Rabo Liv)
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- Jolien d’Hoore moves into the Women’s World Cup overall lead. She won Ronde van Drenthe, sat out of Trofeo Binda (raced Gent Wevelgem instead) and finished in second at Tour of Flanders.
