The Ford RideLondon Classique grew to become a three-day Ladies’s WorldTour occasion in 2022 and continued with this format on Could 24-26. The 397km route contains two phases in Essex and a closing stage in London, with a end on The Mall.
Following an identical path to final 12 months’s race, the organisers have modified the 2 first phases in Essex, whereas the third and closing stage returns to the standard central London circuit.
“The perfect riders on the planet wish to race the Ford RideLondon Classique – the expertise on present within the 2024 area represents the perfect of the elite girls’s peloton. The sprinting on present can be of the very best order and this could possibly be the quickest version of the race ever,” stated Scott Sunderland, race director.
“With a world-class lineup on a world-class course, you possibly can count on to see aggressive group techniques and strategic assaults by riders. The course has been modified in 2024 to reward any such racing in the course of the phases in Essex.”
Stage 1 on Friday, Could 24 will begin within the medieval market city of Saffron Walden, in north-west Essex for 159.2 kilometres to the historic metropolis of Colchester.
After simply 8km of racing, the riders will method Hertford Lane and the primary Queen of the Mountains in Elmdon, rapidly adopted 10 kilometres later by the second QOM in Barkway. The riders will head east on rolling roads earlier than hitting the primary intermediate dash of the day in Halstead, 88km into the stage. Yet one more QOM in Wormingord and second intermediate dash in Mistley can be confronted earlier than the conclusion in Colchester.
Maldon will host the beginning and end of stage 2 on Saturday. The 146.6km stage will head east by means of Goldhanger and Tolleshunt D’Arcy to its most northerly level within the village of Birch earlier than looping west to Tiptree after 28km. The riders will proceed onto Braxted and Beacon Hill earlier than the primary of three loops of the circuit.
The route will loop in the direction of the primary QOM factors at Little Baddow, and the peloton will do its first move by means of Maldon and head in the direction of Wickham Bishops and the primary intermediate dash, 74km into the stage. The 2 additional loops of the circuit comply with, with QOM and Dash factors on the identical factors earlier than a end in Maldon Excessive Avenue.
The race will culminate with the showpiece stage 3 on Sunday, Could 26. The peloton will make eight full laps of the 11.5km Central London circuit for a complete of 92 kilometres earlier than a closing dash for the victory on The Mall.
