The second edition of the women's Strade Bianche was held on 5 March 2016, in

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. British world champion

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won the race, in bad weather, ahead of

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and

Emma Johansson Emma Karolina Johansson (born 23 September 1983) is a Swedish retired professional racing cyclist. Nicknamed ''Silver Emma'', Johansson accumulated many second and third places at major championships and one-day classics. In 2013 in women's roa ...

. The women's Strade Bianche served as the first event of the inaugural

UCI Women's World Tour The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour. , the tour includes 27 events in Europe, Asia and Oceania – with one-day races such as Strade Bianche Donne and Paris–Roubaix Femmes, stage races such as Wo ...

, the highest level of professional women's cycling. The race is organized on the same day as the men's event, at a shorter distance, but on much of the same roads.

Route

The Strade Bianche is a one day cycling race starting in and finishing in

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, notorious for its long sections of white gravel roads (''sterrati'' or ''strade bianche'' in Italian). The course runs over hilly terrain in the

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, for a total of 121 km, featuring seven sectors and 22.4 km of dirt roads. Six sectors were in common with the men's route. The race finished on Siena's

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, after a narrow ascent on the roughly-paved Via Santa Caterina in the heart of the medieval city.

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Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...

Strade Bianche

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Results

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