Cycling. Gravel – Worlds – Course and favorites of the Elite Women race in Louvain

THE Gravel World Championships will celebrate their 3rd edition this weekend, and among the events which will take place on Saturday in Belgium, there will be the Elite Women race! At 12 p.m., the candidates for the succession of the Polish woman Katarzyna Niewiadomaabsent by personal choice, will set off from Halle for 135 kilometers towards Louvain, a city in which the one who has been able to prove herself the strongest on a steep course but less difficult than that of last year in Veneto will be titled.

Video – After the road, gravel for Lotte Kopecky

A second rainbow jersey in a week for Lotte Kopecky?

You have to look for the favorites among the bitumen specialists who will be at the start, and they will be extremely numerous. A week after keeping her road world champion jersey for another year, Lotte Kopecky will try to win a rainbow tunic in a third different discipline, which has also been titled on the track in the past. Will the Belgian succeed in doing the road-gravel double at the Worlds ? Response Saturday around 4 p.m.

Facing the one which will evolve on its Flemish lands, we will find a large Dutch colony, including the 2023 European champion Lorena Wiebes – who had been crowned less than 10 kilometers from Louvain and will find, on the final circuit of 47 kilometers, quite a few roads and paths that she had to take during her coronation – but also the mountain bike world champion cross country Puck Pietersethe European and world cyclo-cross champion Fem van Empelthe former cyclo-cross world champion Lucinda Brand and the former road and cyclo-cross world champion Marianne Vos. The Australian Tiffany Cromwellthe Italian Silvia Persico – silver medalist last year – the Hungarian Blanka Vas or the American Lauren Stephens are also applying for the world title. Announced at the start, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot2022 world champion in the discipline, finally withdrew this Friday.