*** Welcome to piglix ***

Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs

Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
Logo of the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs.jpg
Logo of the event
Date April / May
Region Luxembourg
Local name(s) Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
Discipline Road
Type 2008-2011 Single day race
2012- Stage race
Organiser Cycling club SaF Zéisséng
First edition 2008 (2008)
Editions 9
First winner  Monia Baccaille (ITA)
Most wins  Marianne Vos (NED) (3 wins)
Most recent  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)

The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. Since 2008 this event is on the UCI women's elite cycle racing calendar. Between 2009 and 2011 it was rated as an UCI 1.1 category race and since 2012 the race is a 2.1 category stage race.

The race is named after Elsy Jacobs the first winner of the UCI Road World Championships - Women's Road Race, which took place at Reims, France in 1958 and Hour record holder from 1958 to 1972.



...
Wikipedia

...