| 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland | |
| Date: | 9–11 August 2019 |
| Stages: | 2 |
| Distance: | 256.1 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 6h 34' 24"[1] |
| Speed: | 38.932 |
| First: | Leah Thomas |
| First Nat: | USA |
| First Color: | yellow |
| Second: | Alison Jackson |
| Second Nat: | CAN |
| Third: | Stine Borgli |
| Third Nat: | NOR |
| Third Team: | Norway (national team) |
| Points: | Leah Thomas |
| Points Nat: | USA |
| Points Color: | red |
| Mountains: | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig |
| Mountains Nat: | DEN |
| Mountains Color: | white dots on blue |
| Youth: | Nikola Nosková |
| Youth Nat: | CZE |
| Youth Color: | white |
| Next: | 2020 |
The 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland was the inaugural and only edition of the Women's Tour of Scotland, a women's cycling stage race held in Scotland, UK.[2] It was run from 9 to 11 August 2019. The race was scheduled for 3 stages, covering a total of 359.2km (223.2miles), but the race's opening stage was abandoned due to adverse weather conditions.[3] It was classified as a class 2.1 event by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The race was won by American rider Leah Thomas, riding for the team.[4] Having finished fourth in the second stage in Perth – won by Canada's Alison Jackson – Thomas won the final stage in an eight-rider sprint at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, and with bonus seconds accumulated at intermediate sprints during the day, Thomas assumed the leader's jersey from Jackson by five seconds.[1] [5] The podium was completed by Norwegian rider Stine Borgli, riding for a Norwegian national team, a further two seconds back,[1] after two third-place stage finishes.
The team won the other three jerseys that were on offer during the race.[6] Thomas was the winner of the points classification alongside her general classification victory,[7] while the team's leader Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig led the mountains classification[8] from start-to-finish, and Nikola Nosková was the winner of the young rider classification, after a ninth-place finish on the final stage allowed her to take the jersey from 's Emma White.[9] The best Scottish rider during the race was Scottish junior national road race champion Anna Shackley, who finished in thirteenth place overall.[1] [10]
The first and only edition was held in 2019 as a 2.1 category race on the UCI women's road cycling calendar.[11] The event folded when the organizers, Zeus Sports, ceased trading having failed to pay debts following the 2019 event.[12]
| Classification | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|
| General classification | ||
| Sprints classification | ||
| Mountains classification | ||
| Young rider classification | ||
| Best Scottish rider |
Sixteen teams participated in the race.
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 August | Dundee to Dunfermline | 103.1km (64.1miles) | Hilly stage | No winner | ||
| 2 | 10 August | Glasgow to Perth | 138.7km (86.2miles) | Flat stage | |||
| 3 | 11 August | Edinburgh to Edinburgh | 117.4km (72.9miles) | Hilly stage | |||
The opening stage of the race was abandoned after 62km (39miles), due to adverse weather conditions. Prior to the abandonment, two intermediate sprints and one categorised climb were held and these points counted towards the respective classifications.[14] The red sprinters' jersey went to 's Eugenia Bujak on countback from 's Marjolein van't Geloof, while rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig was first on the ascent at the Grange of Lindores to take the blue and white polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification.[15]
| Stage | Winner | General classification | Points classification | Mountains classification | Young rider classification | Best Scottish rider classification | Combativity award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1[16] | No winner | Not awarded | Eugenia Bujak | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | |
| 2[17] | Alison Jackson | Alison Jackson | Leah Thomas | Emma White | Jennifer George | Brodie Chapman | ||
| 3[18] | Leah Thomas | Leah Thomas | Nikola Nosková | Anna Shackley | Ann-Sophie Duyck | |||
| Final | Leah Thomas | Leah Thomas | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | Nikola Nosková | Anna Shackley | No final award | ||