2016 Strade Bianche Women
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| Dates | 5 March 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Stages | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 121 km (75.19 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3h 30' 13" | ||||||||||||
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| Winner |
 Lizzie Armitstead (GBR)
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(Boels–Dolmans) | |
| Second |
 Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)
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(Rabo–Liv) | |
| Third |
 Emma Johansson (SWE)
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(Wiggle High5) |
 2016 UCI Women's World Tour
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| Races | ||||
| Round 1 | Strade Bianche | |||
| Round 2 | Ronde van Drenthe | |||
| Round 3 | Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio | |||
| Round 4 | Gent–Wevelgem | |||
| Round 5 | Tour of Flanders | |||
| Round 6 | La Flèche Wallonne | |||
| Round 7 | Tour of Chongming Island | |||
| Round 8 | Amgen Tour of California | |||
| Round 9 | The Philadelphia Cycling Classic | |||
| Round 10 | Aviva Women's Tour | |||
| Round 11 | Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile | |||
| Round 12 | La Course by Le Tour de France | |||
| Round 13 | Prudential RideLondon Grand Prix | |||
| Round 14 | Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda TTT | |||
| Round 15 | Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda | |||
| Round 16 | GP de Plouay-Bretagne | |||
| Round 17 | Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta | |||
| Teams and riders | ||||
| 2016 UCI Women's Teams and riders | ||||
The second edition of the women's Strade Bianche was held on 5 March 2016, in Tuscany, Italy. British world champion Lizzie Armitstead won the race, in bad weather, ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Emma Johansson.
The women's Strade Bianche served as the first event of the inaugural UCI Women's World Tour, 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.
The Strade Bianche is a one day cycling race starting in and finishing in Siena, notorious for its long sections of white gravel roads (sterrati or strade bianche in Italian). The course runs over hilly terrain in the province of Siena, 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 Piazza del Campo, after a narrow ascent on the roughly-paved Via Santa Caterina in the heart of the medieval city.
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