Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs

Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs

The podium at the 2009 edition
Race details
Date April / May
Type Women single-day road race
Organiser Cycling club SaF Zéisséng
History
First edition 2008 (2008)
Editions 4
First winner  Monia Baccaille (ITA)
Most recent  Marianne Vos (NED)

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 and since 2009 UCI 1.1 rated.

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.

Past winners

Year First Second Third
2008  Monia Baccaille (ITA)  Nathalie Lamborelle (LUX)  Marina Romoli (ITA)
2009  Svetlana Bubnenkova (RUS)  Grace Verbeke (BEL)  Iris Slappendel (NED)
2010  Emma Pooley (GBR)  Monia Baccaille (ITA)  Andrea Bosman (NED)
2011  Marianne Vos (NED)  Judith Arndt (GER)  Emma Johansson (SWE)

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