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October 6, 2026
6th Tre Valli Varesine Women’s Race 2026 🇮🇹 (1.Pro) WE – Busto Arsizio – Varese : 133,9 km
Tre Valli Varesine Women’s Race is a UCI 1.Pro one-day women’s road race through the hilly terrain of Lombardy,
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October 6, 2026
6th Tre Valli Varesine Women’s Race 2026 🇮🇹 (1.Pro) WE – Busto Arsizio – Varese : 133,9 km
Tre Valli Varesine Women’s Race is a UCI 1.Pro one-day women’s road race through the hilly terrain of Lombardy, combining fast opening roads with repeated climbs, technical descents and a demanding circuit finale. The course typically covers around 120–140 km and features relatively short but frequent ascents, with gradients commonly around 5–9% and steeper ramps creating sharp changes of pace. Narrow roads, wooded sections, tight corners and rapid transitions between climbs and descents make positioning particularly important. The race is shaped by accumulated elevation rather than one long mountain climb, requiring riders to manage repeated high-intensity efforts while conserving energy for the closing circuits. Breakaways can form during the opening section, while the peloton gradually becomes smaller as the climbs accumulate. Descents and flatter roads allow groups to regroup before another acceleration reshapes the race. In the final laps, attacks and counterattacks become increasingly frequent. The finish can come from a solo move, a small reduced group or a short uphill sprint after the final climb.
Eleonora Gasparrini (UAE Team L’IMAD) surged to her first win of the season in Varese, triumphing on the uphill finish to win Tre Valli Varesine Women’s Race.
The Italian beat Sarah Van Dam (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Noemi Rüegg (EF Education-Oatly) to the line after a large chase group caught and passed a two-woman attack group on the final ramp to the finish line.
Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team L’IMAD) and Nikola Nosková (Cofidis) had both been on the move off the front after attacking during the final laps of the hilly 133.9km race. The pair went clear of a group that included Aude Biannic (Movistar), Loes Adegeest (Lidl-Trek), Amber Kraak (FDJ United-SUEZ), Maud Oudeman (Visma-Lease a Bike), and Maud Rijnbeek (VolkerWessels) in the final 30km.
The move had initially gone clear 45km from the line, with the tough race going without a breakaway for a long time beforehand. Swinkels and Nosková proved the strongest of the group, though, pushing on together.
Despite the chase group behind them having greater strength in numbers, it looked as though the pair would stay away to contest the finish among themselves. There was little cooperation among the chase group, but the peloton was closing in behind.
But what was a 35-second gap eventually faded to nothing on the final hill of the race, just a few hundred metres from the finish line.
In a reversal of the final of last month’s GP de Wallonie, where Gasparrini attacked late for Swinkels to follow wheels and sprint to victory, Gasparrini took advantage in the final, outsprinting her rivals to deliver the win for UAE after Silvia Persico’s work to guide her to the front.
Results :
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Tre Valli Varesine Women's Race is a UCI 1.Pro one-day women’s road race through the hilly terrain of Lombardy, combining fast opening roads with repeated climbs, technical descents and a demanding circuit finale. The course typically covers around 120–140 km and features relatively short but frequent ascents, with gradients commonly around 5–9% and steeper ramps creating sharp changes of pace. Narrow roads, wooded sections, tight corners and rapid transitions between climbs and descents make positioning particularly important. The race is shaped by accumulated elevation rather than one long mountain climb, requiring riders to manage repeated high-intensity efforts while conserving energy for the closing circuits. Breakaways can form during the opening section, while the peloton gradually becomes smaller as the climbs accumulate. Descents and flatter roads allow groups to regroup before another acceleration reshapes the race. In the final laps, attacks and counterattacks become increasingly frequent. The finish can come from a solo move, a small reduced group or a short uphill sprint after the final climb.
Eleonora Gasparrini (UAE Team L'IMAD) surged to her first win of the season in Varese, triumphing on the uphill finish to win Tre Valli Varesine Women's Race.
The Italian beat Sarah Van Dam (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Noemi Rüegg (EF Education-Oatly) to the line after a large chase group caught and passed a two-woman attack group on the final ramp to the finish line.
Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team L'IMAD) and Nikola Nosková (Cofidis) had both been on the move off the front after attacking during the final laps of the hilly 133.9km race. The pair went clear of a group that included Aude Biannic (Movistar), Loes Adegeest (Lidl-Trek), Amber Kraak (FDJ United-SUEZ), Maud Oudeman (Visma-Lease a Bike), and Maud Rijnbeek (VolkerWessels) in the final 30km.
The move had initially gone clear 45km from the line, with the tough race going without a breakaway for a long time beforehand. Swinkels and Nosková proved the strongest of the group, though, pushing on together.
Despite the chase group behind them having greater strength in numbers, it looked as though the pair would stay away to contest the finish among themselves. There was little cooperation among the chase group, but the peloton was closing in behind.
But what was a 35-second gap eventually faded to nothing on the final hill of the race, just a few hundred metres from the finish line.
In a reversal of the final of last month's GP de Wallonie, where Gasparrini attacked late for Swinkels to follow wheels and sprint to victory, Gasparrini took advantage in the final, outsprinting her rivals to deliver the win for UAE after Silvia Persico's work to guide her to the front.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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