The team took on their second stage race this summer on the border of Belgium and Nederland.  Therace started with a 1.9 km prolog, where Susanne was our best with 11th. On the first stage, 2 riders awat, we did a leadout for Nina for the 3d place, but went a little to early and no result. To make it worse, Vita crashed and was taken to hospital with a broken finger. The next day started with a short road race, stage 2A.  Again 2 riders escaped late, Tone and Ingvild worked hard to keep it back but, couldnt, Nina was 3d in the peloton sprint and 5th overall. Cecilei was having a bad day and decided to not start the ITT on stage 2B. Marianne Vos was best on the day, again Susanne sis a good TT and was our best with 11th. On the last stage, Nina went in a long breakaway with Trevisi (Cipollini team), tha thad at the most 1:05. They where catched with 10km to go, and today it sticked together for a bunch sprint. Susanne did a great sprint and finished 3d, behind overall winner Marianne Vos and vd Ree (Lares Waovdeals). In the GC Susanne finished 9 and Nina 18. It was a encouraging stage race, Susanne delivered again, Nina was strong, Ingvild in progress. The only really bad thing was Vitas little finger, which was broken.
Team: Ingvild, Vita, Susanne, Nina, Tone, Cecilie
Results.

Nina raced as a guest rider to practice her sprint legs. She came back with 2 podiums and a 4th place.
Team: N/A
Results: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13127

Nina Kessler

As the longest race on the calendar, it was not a great succes for us in the GC. Our captain Katrine had to stop on the 9th stage wih a heatstroke. Furthermore Miriam crashed out of the 7th stage with a bad shoulder, but not broken. The positive from the race was Emilies 3 x top 10 placements. Anna vd Breggen (Boels) won the race.
Team: Katrine, Miriam, Thea, Simona, Emilie, Ilona, Charlotte
Results: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13479

30-06-2017: Wielrennen: Giro Rosa: GRADO:
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We started with 9 girls against a peloton who was determined to break us. CK Victoria with 13 girls and Grimstad with 7 was expected to be the strongest. We opened very hard in the tough course, and broke the peloton to pieces in the first hill, with hard work from our climbers Vita/Ingvild/Katrine/Cecilie/Miriam. After the hill, 6 girls rode away with Susanne and Thea in it. Later, Katrine rode up to the group, which took away the desire to race from the other teams.  After another few hard rides up the hills we ehere reduced to a group of 12 in the front where we had 6 riders, Susanne, Miriam, Vita, Katrine and Cecilie. On the 4th lap Katrine and Vita attacked the group of 12 and rode away with Ingrid Lorvik (CK Victoria). After getting 3 minutes, Katrine and Vita stated attacking Ingrid, but in a whole lap they could not get a single meter. In the mean time, Miriam and Susanne had escaped from the group behind and was on their way up to the trio in fromnt. We decided to wait and let Ingrid pull the trio almost to the line. Vita attacked on 300 meter and sprinted to her second consecutive title. Katrine outsprinted Ingrid for the silver. Miriam followed alone on 4th, and Susanne followed alone on 5th. We also had Cecilie on 7th, Thea on 10th, Tone on 19th and Ingvild on 23d place. Emilie had become sick and stopped after 3 laps.
Video: www.tv2.no/v/1210265/
Team: Tone, Susanne, Ingvild, Miriam, Vita, Cecilie, Emilie, Katrine, Thea
Results:  http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13674

A spectacular show-off from the team in Levanger centre, in a technical course with 8x left turns and 4 x right turns in just over a KM per lap. After the first hard laps, which saw Tone crash out, a group of 4 riders escaped where we had Emilie & Susanne. Emilie escaped and rode alone for 10 laps, when Susanne attacked from the group behind and joined her. Emilie was already pretty exhausted and Susanne rode on alone. She won the race solo with roughly 30 seconds, and took her first Woman Elite Nationals gold. Behind, Malin Eriksen (CK Victoria) attacked with Thea on the wheel. Thea outsprinted Malin and took the silver. Emilie ended on 5th place and Ingvild on 8th place.
Team: Miriam, Thea, Tone, Emilie, Ingvild, Susanne
Results: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13138

Vita Heine defended her title in style with a crushing time in Trondheim. Thea Thorsen took her first UCI-podium by coming second, while Katrine Aalerud took the last podium spot. Cecilie had to settle for a dissapointing 4th on home soil after some sickness. Emilie Moberg took a nice 6th place and Tone a 16th place. Miriam had a puncture and DNF’ed. Anyway a nice start to the week with a full podium.
Results:http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13137

Simona in Italy nationals had a nice 7th on the ITT, but had to settle for 25th on the hard road race. In the terribly hard competition in Holland, Nina took a nice 9th place in the road race while Ilona was 62nd. On the ITT only Ilona rode to a 25th place. In Germany, Charlotte dinished 6th in the ITT but took a great 3d place in the RR.
Results:
Germany ITT: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13167
Germany RR: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13168
Netherlands ITT: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13193
Netherlands RR: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13194
Italy ITT: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13667
Italy RR: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13668

The saturday ranking race, where Tone, Ingvild & Susanne raced, started badly, both Tone & Ingvild out with mechanicals. Susanne was in great shape, however and won the race in a tight bunch sprint over Line Gulliksen. On the sunday, the team was reinforced with Nina Kessler. We had full control of the race. We let go a break of Ingvild and Julie Solvang (Grimstad), believing Ingvild would win the 2 rider sprint. It was not to be, Julie won it. Again Syusanne won the bunch sprint for 3d.
Team: Nina, Tone, Susanne & Ingvild
Results:
Ranking Race: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13531
Norwegian Cup: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13401

The Womens Tour in England was a fantastic race, with the best possible start list, and loads of spectators all through the 5 stages. The most spectacular stage was the last in London centre, with start and finish at Picadilly Circus. Overall, Vita was our strongest for the week with a 16th place. Emilie was a strong sprinter with 2 x 11th places and a 9th place. The race was won by Kasia Niewadome (WMN3), that incredibly was allowed to ride away on the first day, d never let go of her lead after that.
Team: Vita, Katrine, Miriam, Thea, Simona, Emilie
Results: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13118

Nina took her greatest win of her career in a bunch sprint in this Belgian classic. A strong team performance placed her in a good position, where she made her own way in the final kilometer to beat Monique vd Ree (Lares) for the win.
Team: Tone, Nina, Ilona, Cecilie, Charlotte
Results: http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=13127