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Much like final yr’s route, the eighth version of Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes runs 147.6km from Bastogne to Liège, and options 9 climbs, another than final yr. The ladies will comply with the identical course from Bastogne to Liège as the lads clashing on climbs such because the Wanne, Stockeu and Haute-Levée triptych.
The primary climb of the day, the Côte de Saint-Roch (1km at 11.2%), is available in 19km into the race which continues on rolling terrain for 43km earlier than the fast successions of climbs.
The sphere will make it to the highest of Côte de Wanne (3.6km at 5.1%) at 85 kilometres to go, then rapidly hit the Côte de Stockeu (1km at 12.5%) and Côte de Haute-Levée (2.2km at 7.5%) tackling all three climbs inside simply 15 kilometres.
Subsequent comes the Col du Rosier, the longest of the eight key climbs of the race, with 4.4km at 5.9%, which peaks with 60.1km to go.
The ultimate 4 ascents start at Côte de Desnié, which was added in 2021. The 1.6-km climb, averaging 8.1 per cent, has a very stinging part midway up. Then the peloton reaches the Côte de la Redoute, essentially the most well-known and troublesome of the categorised climbs, because it averages virtually 10 per cent, adopted by the incategorised Côte de Cornémont and the Côte des Forges.
Lastly, at 13.4km from the end line in Liège, the ultimate climb of the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, the place Annemiek Van Vleuten delivered her second assault in 2022 and rode towards a solo victory. Final yr, eventual race winner Demi Vollering escaped with Elisa Longo Borghini on the ultimate climb to battle to the end line.
Even after the crest of the ninth and closing climb, the challenges proceed with a brief descent to a false flat adopted with one other brief incline earlier than the ultimate blast by Liège to a flat end of the ultimate race of the Ardennes Classics.
Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2024 climbs
Côte de Saint-Roch (1km at 11.2%)Côte de Wanne (3.6km at 5.1%)Côte de Stockeu (1km at 12.5%)Côte de Haute-Levée (2.2km at 7.5%)Col du Rosier (4.4km at 5.9%)Côte de Desnié (1.6km at 9.4%)Côte de la Redoute (1.6km at 9.4%)Côte des Forges (1.3km at 7.8%)Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons (1.3km At 11%)
