2017_Liège–Bastogne–Liège_(women's_race)
2017 Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
Cycling race
The first edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, a road cycling one-day race in Belgium, was held on 23 April 2017. It was the eighth event of the 2017 UCI Women's World Tour. The race started in Bastogne and finished in Ans, containing four categorized climbs and covering a total distance of 135.5 km.[1] 139 riders started the race, 98 finished.[2]
Dutch rider and reigning Olympic road race champion Anna van der Breggen won the event, thus completing a set of wins in all three races of the Ardennes classics.[2] Van der Breggen had already won Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne in the week leading up to Liège–Bastogne–Liège. All three races had the same runner-up and third-place finisher on the podium.[3]