{"id":204846,"date":"2026-03-09T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=204846"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:37:15","slug":"it-is-so-much-emotions-i-still-cant-realise-it-chabbey-wins-chaotic-strade-bianche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2026\/03\/09\/it-is-so-much-emotions-i-still-cant-realise-it-chabbey-wins-chaotic-strade-bianche\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is so much emotions, I still can\u2019t realise it\u201d: Chabbey Wins Chaotic Strade Bianche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Elise Chabbey delivered the biggest victory of her career at the 2026 Strade Bianche Donne, winning a dramatic edition of the Tuscan gravel classic after several pre-race favourites were taken out of contention by a costly wrong turn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Swiss rider from FDJ-SUEZ held her nerve in a tense finale in Siena, sprinting to victory on the steep Via Santa Caterina before the iconic finish on the Piazza del Campo. Chabbey beat our own We Love Cycling expert Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney in second, while her teammate Franziska Koch completed the podium to seal a double top-three for the French squad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the race\u2019s decisive moment came much earlier. With around 33km remaining, a large chase group containing many of the favourites including Demi Vollering, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot and Lotte Kopecky followed a race motorbike onto the wrong road through vineyards. By the time they rejoined the course, the gap had stretched to around three minutes and their chances were effectively gone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the front, the race remained aggressive across the final gravel sectors. Repeated attacks whittled the leading group down before the brutal climb into Siena, where the race exploded one last time. Chabbey entered the final metres slightly behind but carried more speed through the final corner and launched her sprint with around 250 metres remaining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After crossing the line, the Swiss rider struggled to process the magnitude of the moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is so much emotions that I cannot realise it for now,\u201d Chabbey said. \u201cI was really on the limit so many times. In my head I wanted to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, she kept riding for her teammates, particularly team leader Demi Vollering, who had suffered bad luck earlier in the race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI thought, no, I have to do this for Demi\u2026 and for all the work my teammates did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The victory marks Chabbey\u2019s first win in a WorldTour one-day classic and adds another milestone to a career that has steadily risen in recent seasons.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Final results: Strade Bianche Donne 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>Elise Chabbey (SUI)<\/strong> \u2014 FDJ-SUEZ \u2014 3:35:42<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL)<\/strong> \u2014 Canyon\/\/SRAM zondacrypto<\/li>\n<li><strong>Franziska Koch (GER)<\/strong> \u2014 FDJ-SUEZ<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)<\/strong> \u2014 UAE Team ADQ<\/li>\n<li><strong>Magdeleine Vallieres (CAN)<\/strong> \u2014 EF Education-Oatly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elise Chabbey delivered the biggest victory of her career at the 2026 Strade Bianche Donne, winning a dramatic edition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":204847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[2711,7761,8949,8624,8948],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-204846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-elisa-longo-borghini","tag-elise-chabbey","tag-franziska-koch","tag-kasia-niewiadoma-phinney","tag-strade-bianche-donne-2026","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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