The stage for the penultimate race of the French European Championships is reserved for the Women Elite. 85 athletes are competing who will have to cover 116.1 kilometers. Start time 2:00 PM.

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The Italian team consists of six riders: Verbania's Elisa Longo Borghini, Bergamo's Silvia Persico, Turin's Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini, Treviso's Soraya Paladin, Trentino's Barbara Malcotti and Cuneo's Erica Magnaldi. Except for Magnaldi, all the others are returning from the World Championship in Rwanda.

The hierarchies in the Italian team remain the same with Longo Borghini in the captain's role and the others supporting the Italian champion. The course suits her, but given what happened at the World Championship, it won't be easy to elude her rivals.

Let's see who are the potential title contenders. On paper, the strongest team is the Netherlands, fielding Vollering, Van Der Breggen, Bredewold, and Van Anrooij, all capable of winning. France also has a strong, cohesive group composed of Labous, Bunel, Kerbaol, and Muzic. The team to be feared is represented by the Swiss Reusser and Chabbey, the experienced Polish rider Niewiadoma, the Spanish Garcia (bronze in Kigali), and the Germans Lippert and Niedermaier. But a surprise is always around the corner, as we learned from the World Championship in Rwanda won by the unexpected Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres.

STARTING LINEUP

NETHERLANDS
1 Mischa BREDEWOLD
2 Femke DE VRIES
3 Femke GERRITSE
4 Riejanne MARKUS
5 Pauliena ROOIJAKKERS
6 Shirin VAN ANROOIJ
7 Anna VAN DER BREGGEN
8 Demi VOLLERING

ITALY
9 Eleonora Camilla GASPARRINI
10 Elisa LONGO BORGHINI
11 Erica MAGNALDI
12 Barbara MALCOTTI
13 Soraya PALADIN
14 Silvia PERSICO

SWITZERLAND
15 Elise CHABBEY
16 Elena HARTMANN
17 Steffi HÄBERLIN
18 Marlen REUSSER
19 Noemi RÜEGG
20 Linda ZANETTI

FRANCE
21 Marion BUNEL
22 Léa CURINIER
23 Cedrine KERBAOL
24 Juliette LABOUS
25 Celia LE MOUEL
26 Marie LE NET
27 Dilyxine MIERMONT
28 Evita MUZIC

POLAND
29 Natalia KRZESLAK
30 Marta LACH
31 Katarzyna Anna NIEWIADOMA
32 Karolina PEREKITKO
33 Nikol PLOSAJ
34 Kaja RYSZ
35 Agnieszka SKALNIAK-SOJKA
36 Dominika WLODARCZYK

SPAIN
37 Mireia BENITO PELLICER
38 Iurani BLANCO CALBET
39 Margarita Victo GARCIA CAÑELLAS
40 Ariana GILABERT VILAPLANA
41 Sara MARTIN MARTIN
42 Maite URTEAGA SORAZU

NORWAY
43 Susanne ANDERSEN
44 Sigrid Ytterhus HAUGSET
45 Tiril JØRGENSEN
46 Mie Bjørndal OTTESTAD

BELGIUM
47 Lotte CLAES
48 Audrey DE KEERSMAEKER
49 Justine GHEKIERE
50 Marieke MEERT
51 Julie VAN DE VELDE
52 Margot VANPACHTENBEKE

GERMANY
53 Ricarda BAUERNFEIND
54 Franziska BRAUßE
55 Romy KASPER
56 Franziska KOCH
57 Liane LIPPERT
58 Antonia NIEDERMAIER

AUSTRIA
59 Carina SCHREMPF
60 Christina SCHWEINBERGER

IRELAND
61 Fiona MANGAN
62 Caoimhe O BRIEN

SLOVENIA
63 Eugenia BUJAK
64 Urška ŽIGART

SWEDEN
65 Caroline ANDERSSON
66 Julia BORGSTRÖM

CZECHIA
67 Veronika JANDOVÁ

DENMARK
68 Rebecca KOERNER
69 Bragh Christina LORENZEN
70 Uttrup Cecilie LUDWIG

HUNGARY
71 Petra ZSANKÓ

SLOVAKIA
72 Nora JENČUŠOVÁ

UKRAINE
73 Yuliia BIRIUKOVA
74 Olha KULYNYCH
75 Olha SHEKEL

LUXEMBOURG
76 Nina BERTON

ESTONIA
77 Aidi Gerde TUISK

LITHUANIA
78 Rasa LELEIVYTĖ

GREECE
79 Argyro MILAKI

TÜRKIYE
80 Melike ÇAKIR
81 Reyhan YAKIŞIR

PORTUGAL
82 Raquel QUEIRÓS

AIN
83 Tamara DRONOVA
84 Natalia FROLOVA

SAN MARINO
85 Valentina VENERUCCI