| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Date | late May-early June |
| Region | Sweden |
| Discipline | road bicycle racing |
| Type | one-day |
| History | |
| First edition | 1990 |
| First winner | Marianne Berglund, Sweden |
| Most wins | Leoniten-Zilijaard van Moorsel, Netherlands (5) |
| Most recent | Majken Lidén, Sweden |
Tjejtrampet was an annual road bicycle racing event which, as the name tells, was only for female participants. The events were held in Sweden by lagte May between 1990-2009. The race was held for first time on 13 May 1990 and was won by Marianne Berglund. [1]
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously and race to set finish point; and time trials, where individual riders or teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively.
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the Swedish-Danish border. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.5 million has a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi). The highest concentration is in the southern half of the country.
Marianne Berglund is a Swedish former road racing cyclist. On 3 September 1983 she won the women's road race during the UCI Road World Championships in Altenrhein, Switzerland. She also won the Tour of Texas. She rode in the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1990, she won the first edition of Tjejtrampet.
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In 2006, the competitions were moved from Stockholm to Västerås. [2]
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous urban area in the Nordic countries; 962,154 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Just outside the city and along the coast is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the capital of Stockholm County.
Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some 100 kilometres west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 119,372 inhabitants in 2016, out of the municipal total of 150,000 (2017). Västerås is the seat of Västerås Municipality, the capital of Västmanland County and an episcopal see.
