The 2013 women's road cycling season was the first year of the team Wiggle–Honda.
Roster
Season On March 3 the team achieved its first ever victory when Emily Collins won the Omloop van het Hageland one day race in Belgium. Collins Shelly Olds (Team TIBCO) and Emma Johansson (Orica–AIS) in a final sprint. On May 18 the team earned its first overall General classification win at the Tour of Zhoushan Island in China where Giorgia Bronzini took overall victory from the Hitec Products UCK pairing of Elisa Longo Borghini and Cecille Gotaas Johnsen by 14 seconds and 1 minute 6 seconds respectively. The team's second overall victory came at the 2013 La Route de France, where Linda Villumsen won stage 7 and in doing so took overall victory from Emma Johansson by 5 minutes 52 seconds. The race will be remembered for the record breaking efforts of Bronzini who won six consecutive stages (1–6) breaking the all-time record for consecutive stage wins in a women's stage racing and meaning that the team won all 7 road stages. The team finished the season 5th in the UCI Rankings (1060 points) and 7th in the Women's World Cup rankings (166 points).
Season victories
Results in major races
Single day races +Results at the 2013 World Cup racesDate#RaceBest riderPlace9 March1Ronde van Drenthe Giorgia Bronzini 24th24 March2Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio Lauren Kitchen 13th31 March3Tour of Flanders Giorgia Bronzini 13th17 April4La Flèche Wallonne Féminine Joanna Rowsell 46th12 May5Tour of Chongming Island Giorgia Bronzini 2nd16 August6Open de Suède Vårgårda TTTWiggle–Honda 5th18 August7Open de Suède Vårgårda Giorgia Bronzini 10th31 August8GP de Plouay - -Final individual classification Giorgia Bronzini 9thFinal team classificationWiggle–Honda 7th +Other major single day racesDateRaceBest riderPlace22 SeptemberUCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial Wiggle–Honda 6th24 SeptemberUCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial Linda Villumsen 2nd28 SeptemberUCI Road World Championships – Women's road race Linda Villumsen 6th
Grand Tours Results of the team in the grand tours Grand tour Giro d'Italia Femminile Rider (classification) Linda Villumsen (14th) Victories1 stage win
UCI World Ranking
The team finished fifth in the UCI ranking for teams.
+ Individual world ranking Rank Rider Points4 Giorgia Bronzini 614
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