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Megan Guarnier Wins Inaugural UCI Women’s World Tour

With just one race remaining in the first ever UCI Women’s WorldTour Megan Guarnier has already locked up the championship. Guarnier won three times in a four race span between mid-May and mid-July including the multi-stage Tour of California and the multi-stage Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile to seize the lead and has never given it up since. Guarnier raced on the tour for the first time since her win in Italy as she placed fifth in the one day GP de Plouay-Bretagne on Saturday. Guarnier finished with the same time as the leader as did Carmen Small in seventh. Alexis Ryan was 44th, 6:04 back, while Tayler Wiles (61st) and Evelyn Stevens (63rd) also finished in the top 100. Stevens is now fifth in the overall standings and is planning to retire at the end of 2016. Ryan is ranked seventh among riders in the youth classification.

106 Megan Guarnier

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One week previous the tour held both a team time trial and a road race at the Crescent Vargarda event. Stevens was part of the winning Boels-Dolmans team at that event while Ryan was part of the fourth place Canyon SRAM team. In the road race Small placed 13th, 48 seconds back, with Ryan at the same time in 23rd. Finishing close together were Amber Neben in 57th, Wiles in 60th, and Stevens in 61st.

The final event of the 2016 UCI Women’s WorldTour will be the Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta which will take place on the same day as the final stage of the Vuelta a Espana men’s event, September 11th.

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