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{{Infobox cycling race report
| name               = 2018 Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
| series             = [[2018 UCI Women's World Tour]]
| race_no            = 9
| season_no          = 23
| image              = 2018 LBL Redoute W01.jpg
| image_size         = 320
| image_caption      = From left to right: [[Katarzyna Niewiadoma|Kasia Niewiadoma]], [[Pauline Ferrand-Prévot]], [[Ashleigh Moolman]] and [[Sabrina Stultiens]] leading the peloton on the [[Côte de La Redoute]], at 36&nbsp;km from the finish.
| date               = 22 April 2018
| distance           = 135.5
| unit               = km
| time               = 3h 14' 23"
| speed              = 25.79
| first              = [[Anna van der Breggen]]
| first_team         = {{UCI team code|DLT|2018}}
| first_nat          = NED
| first_color        =
| second             = [[Amanda Spratt]]
| second_team        = {{UCI team code|GEW2|2018}}
| second_nat         = AUS
| third              = [[Annemiek van Vleuten]]
| third_team         = {{UCI team code|GEW2|2018}}
| third_nat          = NED
| previous           = [[2017 Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race)|2017]]
| next               = [[2019 Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race)|2019]]
}}
The second edition of '''[[Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes]]''', a [[road bicycle racing|road cycling]] one-day race in Belgium, was held on 22 April 2018. It was the ninth event of the [[2018 UCI Women's World Tour]]. The race started in [[Bastogne]] and finished in [[Ans, Belgium|Ans]], containing four categorized climbs, covering a total distance of 135.5&nbsp;km.<ref name="Parcours">{{cite web|title=A.S.O. a dévoilé aujourd'hui les parcours de La Flèche Wallonne et de Liège-Bastogne-Liège version féminine, Van Der Breggen se rapproche de Marianne Vos.|url=http://www.velo101.com/feminines/article/lactu-feminine-du-25-janvier--18933|website=velo101.com|access-date=14 April 2018|language=fr}}</ref>
[[Anna van der Breggen]] won the race after she broke clear from [[Amanda Spratt]] on the uphill run-up towards the finish. [[Annemiek van Vleuten]] was third.<ref name="Knöfler">{{cite web|last1=Knöfler|first1=Lukas|title=Anna van der Breggen solos to Liege-Bastogne-Liege victory|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/liege-bastogne-liege-femmes-2018/results/|website=[[Cyclingnews]]|publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]]|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref> It was van der Breggen's second [[Ardennes classics]] win of the week after she won [[2018 Flèche Wallonne (women's race)|Flèche Wallonne]], and her fourth [[2018 UCI Women's World Tour|World Tour]] one-day victory of 2018.<ref name="Rogers">{{cite web|last1=Rogers|first1=Owen|title=Anna van der Breggen continues Ardennes dominance with Liège-Bastogne-Liège victory|url=http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/anna-van-der-breggen-continues-ardennes-dominance-liege-bastogne-liege-victory-377177|website=cyclingweekly.com|access-date=23 April 2018}}</ref>
==Route==
[[File:Liege-Bastogne-Liege women 2017.png|left|thumb|Route of the 2018 women's event]]
The route was identical to that of the [[2017 Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race)|2017 event]]. At 135.5&nbsp;km, the race was approximately half the distance of the men's event. It started in [[Bastogne]], from where it headed north past [[Liège]] to finish in the industrial suburb of [[Ans, Belgium|Ans]] on the same location as the men's race. The route featured four categorized climbs: the Côte de la Vecquée, [[Côte de La Redoute]], Côte de la Roche aux faucons and [[Côte de Saint-Nicolas]]. The top of the last climb of Saint-Nicolas comes at 5.5&nbsp;km from the finish.<ref name="Parcours"/>
==Teams==
Twenty-three teams, each with a maximum of six riders, started the race:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://firstcycling.com/race.php?r=9052&y=2018&k=start|title=2018 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes|work=FirstCycling|access-date=14 March 2019}}</ref>
{{cyclingteamlist|year=2018|title=Professional women's teams|DLT|CSR|MTS women|FUT|CBT|TLP|ALE|WHT|BTC|WAD|CPC|TVW|HPU|ASA2|BPK|DRP|VAL|LSL|MOV2|TIB|DVE2|EXP|HCT}}
==Race summary==
[[Image:TV-icon-2.svg|thumb|110px|'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckdrY_PDPSM UCI Report]''']]
20 riders remained at the front by the top of the climb of [[Côte de La Redoute|La Redoute]], with 36&nbsp;km to go. [[Pauline Ferrand-Prévot]] broke away after the top and soon had a 55-second lead, but was caught back by the chasers on the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, at 20&nbsp;km from the finish. [[Anna van der Breggen]], [[Annemiek van Vleuten]], [[Ashleigh Moolman]] and [[Megan Guarnier]] had a 25-second lead on the top, but were joined by six others 2&nbsp;km later. Australian [[Amanda Spratt]] immediately accelerated and had a gap of 55 seconds with 10&nbsp;km to go.<ref name="Knöfler"/>
On the [[Côte de Saint-Nicolas]], Anna van der Breggen, Moolman and van Vleuten attacked from the chase group, and at the top van der Breggen had dropped the two others to chase Spratt on her own. The Dutch olympic champion caught Spratt with 5km to go and powered away on the uphill run-in to the finish to win her second consecutive Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Spratt finished second at 6 seconds, van Vleuten outsprinted Moolman for third place.<ref name="Knöfler"/><ref name="Rogers"/>
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==Results==
{|
|'''Final general classification'''<ref name="Knöfler" />
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Rider
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Time
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 1
| {{flagathlete|[[Anna van der Breggen]]|NED}}
| {{UCI team code|DLT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | {{nowrap|3h 34' 23"}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| {{flagathlete|[[Amanda Spratt]]|AUS}}
| {{UCI team code|MTS women|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 6"
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| {{flagathlete|[[Annemiek van Vleuten]]|NED}}
| {{UCI team code|MTS women|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 58"
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| {{flagathlete|[[Ashleigh Moolman]]|RSA}}
| {{UCI team code|CBT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1' 00"
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
| {{flagathlete|[[Ellen van Dijk]]|NED}}
| {{UCI team code|TLP|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1' 13"
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| {{flagathlete|[[Sabrina Stultiens]]|NED}}
| {{UCI team code|WAD|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | s.t.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| {{flagathlete|[[Pauline Ferrand-Prévot]]|FRA}}
| {{UCI team code|CSR|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | s.t.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| {{flagathlete|[[Megan Guarnier]]|USA}}
| {{UCI team code|DLT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | s.t.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 9
| {{flagathlete|[[Shara Gillow]]|AUS}}
| {{UCI team code|FUT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | s.t.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| {{flagathlete|[[Rossella Ratto]]|ITA}}
| {{UCI team code|CPC|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | s.t.
|}
|}
==UCI World Tour==
{{main|2018 UCI Women's World Tour}}
===Attributed points===
[[File:2018 Amstel Gold Race Ladies 212.jpg|right|thumb|Race winner Anna van der Breggen ''(pictured at the [[2018 Amstel Gold Race (women's race)|2018 Amstel Gold Race]])'' increased her lead in the [[2018 UCI Women's World Tour]].]]
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|-
|align="left"| '''Position'''<ref>{{cite web |format= pdf |url= http://fr.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/Rulesandregulation/18/23/94/2-ROA-20180101-F_French.PDF |title= Règlement UCI du sport cycliste - Titre II, épreuves sur route - Chapitre X, classement UCI - Article 2.10.017, Barème des points Femmes Elite, dispositions générales - version au 1er janvier 2018 |website= uci.ch |language= fr |access-date= 20 April 2018 |archive-date= 5 February 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180205184536/http://fr.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/Rulesandregulation/18/23/94/2-ROA-20180101-F_French.PDF |url-status= dead }}</ref> || width=30 bgcolor="#ffffbf"| 1st || width=30 bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| 2nd || width=30 bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| 3rd || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 4th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 5th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 6th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 7th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 8th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 9th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 10th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 11th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 12th  || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 13th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 14th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 15th || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 16-30th  || width=30 bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 31-40th
|-
|align="left"| {{nobr|'''World Tour points'''}} || 200 || 150 || 125 || 100 || 85 || 70 || 60 || 50 || 40 || 35 || 30 || 25 || 20 || 15 || 10 || 5 || 3
|}
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===Individual ranking after Liège–Bastogne–Liège===
{|
|'''World Tour points classification'''{{cn|date=March 2019}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Rider
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Points
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 1
| {{flagathlete|[[Anna van der Breggen]]|NED}} [[File:Jersey violet.svg|20px]]
| {{UCI team code|DLT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 808
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| {{flagathlete|[[Chantal Blaak]]|NED}}
| {{UCI team code|DLT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 538
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| {{flagathlete|[[Amanda Spratt]]|AUS}}
| {{UCI team code|MTS women|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 520
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| {{flagathlete|[[Ashleigh Moolman]]|RSA}}
| {{UCI team code|CBT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 465
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
| {{flagathlete|[[Amy Pieters]]|NED}}
| {{UCI team code|DLT|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 455
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| {{flagathlete|[[Katarzyna Niewiadoma]]|POL}}
| {{UCI team code|CSR|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 415
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| {{flagathlete|[[Jolien D'Hoore]]|BEL}}
| {{UCI team code|MTS women|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 405
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| {{flagathlete|[[Marta Bastianelli]]|ITA}}
| {{UCI team code|ALE|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 370
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 9
| {{flagathlete|[[Annemiek van Vleuten]]|NED}}
| {{UCI team code|MTS women|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 360
|-
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| {{flagathlete|[[Chloe Hosking]]|AUS}}
| {{UCI team code|ALE|2018}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 280
|}
|}
==References==
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{{2018 UCI Women's World Tour}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Liege-Bastogne-Liege, 2018}}
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