La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
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Race details | |
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Date | April |
Region | Wallonia, Belgium |
English name | The Walloon Arrow for Women |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Women's Road World Cup (since 1999) |
Type | One-day race |
Organiser | Amaury Sport Organisation |
History | |
First edition | 1998 |
Editions | 17 (as of 2014) |
First winner | Fabiana Luperini (ITA) |
Most wins | Marianne Vos (NED) (5) |
Most recent | Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA) |
La Flèche Wallonne Féminine is a major professional women's bicycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium and is part of the UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup. The race began in 1998 as a women's road race and was held in conjunction with the men's race. From the following year onwards, the women's La Flèche Wallonne is a UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup event. The women race the same course, but do one less circuit.