Date July/August Type One-day race First winner Susanne Ljungskog | English name Swedish Open Vårgårda Discipline Road bicycle racing | |
Region Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden First edition Road race: 2006 (2006)
Team time trial: 2008 (2008) Editions Road race: 11 (as of 2016)
Team time trial: 9 (as of 2016) Competition UCI Women's WorldTour (2016–) | ||
Open de Suède Vårgårda is an elite professional women's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden. Created in 2006, the Open de Suède Vårgårda was part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup until 2015 and sanctioned by the Swedish Cycling Federation. Since 2016, the race has been part of the new UCI Women's World Tour.
Since 2008, a team time trial has been held in conjunction with the main race as a part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup.
References
Open de Suède Vårgårda Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA