Strade Bianche Women 2025
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| Date | March 8, 2025 | 
| Start location | Siena, Italy | 
| Finish location | Siena, Italy | 
| Category | Women's WorldTour | 
| Distance | 136km | 
| Previous edition | 2024 Strade Bianche Women | 
| 2024 Winner | Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) | 
  
Strade Bianche Women 2025 Results
Demi Vollering (FDJ-SUEZ) beat a resurgent Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-ProTime) to win Strade Bianche for the second time. Pauline Ferrand Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) was third in her return to road racing.
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Strade Bianche Women 2025 information
Strade Bianche Women is a relatively young race, with its inaugural edition in 2015, but has gained popularity for its trek across the scenic white gravel roads of Tuscany, in its seven editions. The event has been part of the Women's WorldTour since the series' inception in 2016.
Organized by Giro d'Italia organisers RCS Sport, the Strade Bianche Women will take place on March 8, held on the same day as the men's Strade Bianche.
Lotte Kopecky was the winner of the 2024 edition, succeeding teammate Demi Vollering as the champion from the previous year.
Previous winners also include Annemiek van Vleuten, who won two editions of Strade Bianche, and other past winners Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx), Lizzie Deignan and Elisa Longo Borghini of Trek-Segafredo, and Megan Guarnier (Boels Dolmans).
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Strade Bianche Women 2025 route


The Strade Bianche organizers added more gravel sectors to the route for 2025, with 13 sectors totalling 50.3km of gravel - find out more about the 2025 Strade Bianche Women route.
Strade Bianche 2025 Contenders
  
Cyclingnews highlights the favourites for one of the most popular one-day races of the Spring Classics season including Demi Vollering.
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Strade Bianche Women8 March 2025 | Siena | Women's WorldTour 
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How to watch Strade Bianche 2025 – Live streams, TV channels for spectacular gravel ClassicAll of the broadcast information for the Italian gravel one-day race
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'I've taken another step' - Puck Pieterse one of Demi Vollering's biggest rivals at Strade Bianche'The goal should just be to compete for the prizes' says cross-country mountain bike world champion
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'Perfect gravel for great racing' - Lidl-Trek ready to race after Strade Bianche recon rides'To focus solely on Pogačar would be to waste our energy' says Quinn Simmons
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Demi Vollering: Swearing at 2023 Strade Bianche 'wasn't meant for Lotte Kopecky'SD Worx-ProTime duo explain awkward ending to last year's race ahead of Saturday's return to the sterrato
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