2013 Wiggle Honda season

2013 Wiggle-Honda
UCI Team ranking	5th
Season victories
One-day races
Stage race overall
Best ranked rider	Giorgia Bronzini (4th)
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The 2013 women's road cycling season was the first year of the team Wiggle-Honda.

Roster

As of 1 June 2013.^[1]

Rider Date of birth  Elinor Barker (GBR) (1994-09-07) 7 September 1994  Beatrice Bartelloni (ITA) (1993-02-05) 5 February 1993  Charlotte Becker (GER) (1983-05-19) 19 May 1983  Giorgia Bronzini (ITA) (1983-08-03) 3 August 1983  Emily Collins (NZL) (1990-09-16) 16 September 1990  Rochelle Gilmore (AUS) (1981-12-14) 14 December 1981  Dani King (GBR) (1990-11-21) 21 November 1990

Rider Date of birth  Lauren Kitchen (AUS) (1990-11-21) 21 November 1990  Mayuko Hagiwara (JPN) (1986-10-16) 16 October 1986  Amy Roberts (GBR) (1994-12-24) 24 December 1994  Joanna Rowsell (GBR) (1988-12-05) 5 December 1988  Anna-Bianca Schnitzmeier (GER) (1990-07-27) 27 July 1990  Laura Trott (GBR) (1992-04-24) 24 April 1992  Linda Villumsen (NZL) (1985-04-09) 9 April 1985

Season

On March 3 the team achieved its first ever victory when Emily Collins won the Omloop van het Hageland one day race in Belgium. Collins Shelly Olds (Team TIBCO) and Emma Johansson (Orica-AIS) in a final sprint. On May 18 the team earned its first overall General classification win at the Tour of Zhoushan Island in China where Giorgia Bronzini took overall victory from the Hitec Products UCK pairing of Elisa Longo Borghini and Cecille Gotaas Johnsen by 14 seconds and 1 minute 6 seconds respectively.^[2] The team's second overall victory came at the 2013 La Route de France, where Linda Villumsen won stage 7 and in doing so took overall victory from Emma Johansson by 5 minutes 52 seconds.^[3] The race will be remembered for the record breaking efforts of Bronzini who won six consecutive stages (1 – 6) breaking the all-time record for consecutive stage wins in a women’s stage racing and meaning that the team won all 7 road stages.^[4] The team finished the season 5th in the UCI Rankings (1060 points) and 7th in the Women's World Cup rankings (166 points).^[5]

Results in major races

Single day races

Results at the 2013 World Cup races^[6]

Date	#	Race	Best rider	Place
9 March	1	Ronde van Drenthe	Giorgia Bronzini	24th
24 March	2	Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio	Lauren Kitchen	13th
31 March	3	Tour of Flanders	Giorgia Bronzini	13th
17 April	4	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine	Joanna Rowsell	46th
12 May	5	Tour of Chongming Island	Giorgia Bronzini	2nd
16 August	6	Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT	Wiggle Honda	5th
18 August	7	Open de Suède Vårgårda	Giorgia Bronzini	10th
31 August	8	GP de Plouay	-	-
Final individual classification			Giorgia Bronzini	9th
Final team classification			Wiggle Honda	7th

Villumsen (left) finished second at the World Time Trial Championships behind Ellen van Dijk.

Other major single day races

Date	Race	Best rider	Place
22 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial	Wiggle Honda	6th
24 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial[M 1]	Linda Villumsen	2nd
28 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race[M 2]	Linda Villumsen	6th

Grand Tours

Results of the team in the grand tours

Grand tour	Giro d'Italia Femminile
Rider (classification)	Linda Villumsen (14th)[9]
Victories	1 stage win

UCI World Ranking

The team finished fifth in the UCI ranking for teams.^[6]

Individual world ranking^[6]

Rank	Rider	Points
4	Giorgia Bronzini	614

References