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2011 Sparkassen Giro

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ16274875 ↗
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The women's race of the 2011 Sparkassen Giro Bochum took place on 31 July 2011. It was the 11th women's edition of the Sparkassen Giro Bochum. The race started and ended in Bochum, Germany and spanned 73 km (45.4 mi). The race is a UCI 1.1 category race.

Ellen van Dijk, who won the race at the 2010 Sparkassen Giro Bochum, did not participate in this edition.

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This entry incorporates text from “2011 Sparkassen Giro” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.