2006 Tour of Flanders for Women

the men's race 2006 Tour of Flanders 2006 Tour of Flanders 2006 UCI Women's Road World Cup 3 12 2 April 2006 112 km 3h 16' 57"Jones Jeff Decaluwé Brecht 3rd Women's Ronde van Vlaanderen - CDM. Belgium, April 2, 2006 http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/worldcup06/rvv06/?id=wresults autobus.cyclingnews.com 29 April 2018April 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Mirjam Melchers FLX 2006 NED Christiane Soeder CWT 2006 AUT Loes Gunnewijk FLX 2006 NED 2005 2007 The third running of the Tour of Flanders for Women, a women's road cycling race in Belgium, was held on 2 April 2006. The race started in Oudenaarde and finished in Meerbeke, taking in 12 climbs and covering a total distance of 112 km off.O'Shea Sadhbh Women's Tour of Flanders: Six of the best http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/womens-tour-of-flanders-six-of-the-best/ Cyclingnews Immediate Media Company 23 April 2018 It was the third round of the 2006 UCI Women's Road World Cup.Jones Jeff 3rd Women's Women's Ronde van Vlaanderen - CDM http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/apr06/rvv_w06/ autobus.cyclingnews.com 28 April 2018 Dutch rider Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel won her second consecutive Tour of Flanders in a two-up sprint with Austrian Christiane Soeder. Race summary 159 riders started the race in Oudenaarde at 11:30. The peloton thinned out on the wet and slick cobbled sector of the Paddestraat at the 24 km mark, leaving only 50 riders at the front of the race. On the cobbled sector of the Haaghoek, after 69 km, Mirjam Melchers, Christiane Soeder, Edwige Pitel and Kimberly Anderson broke clear. Anderson was dropped 6 km later, on the Berendries climb, and the leading trio increased their lead to over a minute on the peloton as they addressed the Valkenberg, at 32 km from the finish. Melchers accelerated on the Valkenberg and dropped the other two, with Tenbosse, the Muur van Geraardsbergen and the Bosberg still to come. Melchers crested the top of the Muur with a one-minute lead on Soeder, who left Pitel behind, but began to lose speed on the Bosberg. The Austrian set off in pursuit of Melchers and bridged across in Ninove, with two kilometres remaining. The race was decided in a two-up sprint in Meerbeke, with Melchers taking the honours before a worn-out Soeder. Dutchwoman Loes Gunnewijk broke clear from the chasing group and completed the podium at 53 seconds. Melchers would later say that she "experienced the race like a war". Result thumb|Josephine Groenveld (in blue) and Fabiana Luperini (in orange) in the back of the peloton on the Muur van Geraardsbergen during the 2006 race. Result 1 Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel NED FLX 2006 3h 16' 57" 2 Christiane Soeder AUT CWT 2006 + 01" 3 Loes Gunnewijk NED FLX 2006 + 53" 4 Zulfiya Zabirova RUS TBG 2006 + 58" 5 Edwige Pitel FRA Bianchi Alverti Kookai s.t. 6 Nicole Cooke GBR CWT 2006 + 1' 20" 7 Theresa Senff GER AAD 2006 s.t. 8 Susanne Ljungskog SWE FLX 2006 s.t. 9 Judith Arndt GER T-Mobile Professional Cycling s.t. 10 Sharon Van Dromme BEL Vlaanderen-Capri Sonne-T-Interim + 1' 32" References 40em External links http://www.rondevanvlaanderen.be/en/rvv/elite-women 2006 Tour Category:2006 UCI Women's Road World Cup