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Matilda Price

The women's Spring Classics aren't a men's carbon copy, but we can't keep adding races – Analysis

World champion Lotte Kopecky leads the peloton up the Kemmelberg during the 2025 Gent-Wevelgem Women.

If you watch or attend any of the major Spring Classics, from Strade Bianche to Liège-Bastogne-Liège, you'll notice that they all have races for both men and women. It's the norm.

In the grand scheme of cycling history, this is a relatively recent development – you only have to go back to 2020 to find no women's Paris-Roubaix and no Milan-San Remo. Look just five years prior, in 2015, and you'd also see the women's had no Liège and Amstel Gold Race, while Strade Bianche Donne had only just been created.

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