Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs

Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
Race details
Date April / May
Region Luxembourg
Local name(s) Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
Discipline Road
Type Single day race (2008–2011)
Stage race (2012–present)
Organiser Cycling club SaF Zéisséng
History
First edition 2008 (2008)
Editions 10 (as of 2017)
First winner  Monia Baccaille (ITA)
Most wins  Marianne Vos (NED) (3 wins)
Most recent  Christine Majerus (LUX)
GP Elsy Jacobs 2009 podium

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.

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)
2012  Marianne Vos (NED)  Annemiek Van Vleuten (NED)  Adrie Visser (NED)
2013  Marianne Vos (NED)  Giorgia Bronzini (ITA)  Emma Johansson (SWE)
2014  Anna van der Breggen (NED)  Marianne Vos (NED)  Shelley Olds (USA)
2015  Anna van der Breggen (NED)  Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)  Lucinda Brand (NED)
2016  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)  Katrin Garfoot (AUS)  Anna van der Breggen (NED)
2017  Christine Majerus (LUX)  Eugenia Bujak (POL)  Ashleigh Moolman (RSA)
2018  Letizia Paternoster (ITA)  Christine Majerus (LUX)  Lotta Lepistö (FIN)


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