Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2022 - Elisa Longo Borghini times move to perfection to win Hell of the North

Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek – Segafredo) timed her move to perfection to win Paris-Roubaix Femmes on Saturday. The Italian champion timed her move to perfection – some 34km out – after a day of breakaways to solo her way to her first win of the season in a consummate performance. Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx) finished second and Lucinda Brand (Trek – Segafredo) took third.

Ad/> The biggest moment of note other than Longo Borghini’s stunning ride was Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) being disqualified when she took a bottle from the team car and held on a little too long for the commissaries' liking. Paris — RoubaixParis-Roubaix LIVE — Balsamo disqualified, Longo Borghini hunting victory7 HOURS AGO Conditions could not have been a larger contrast to last year’s inaugural race. Blue skies and sunshine greeted the riders at the start line in Denain, and it was a quick one from word go with a number of attacks off the front as the peloton set off for their initial laps of the French town.

They were minus Marianne Vos, the pre-race favourite unluckily testing positive for Covid pre-race and pulling out as a result. A group of five quickly established themselves, formed of Leonie Bos (Parkhotel Valkenburg), Amalie Lutro (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team), Katie Clouse (Human Powered Health), Tanja Erath (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB), Gaia Masetti (AG Insurance — NXTG Team) — Erath having had to work the hardest having missing the initial break to cross the gap and turn the lead group into a quintet. They led up to the first section of cobblestones, with a gap of 1m 30s.