The Trofeo Alfredo Binda is one of the longest-standing one-day races in the women's calendar, run on the punchy circuits around Cittiglio in the hills of Varese. It is named for Alfredo Binda, the great Italian champion of the 1920s and 1930s, and it has drawn the best riders in the sport for decades. Marianne Vos and Maria Canins share the record with four wins each, two riders who dominated their eras. The repeated short climbs make it a race for puncheurs and a useful marker of spring form before the cobbled Classics. In 2026 Karlijn Swinkels took the win from a reduced group. It is a race with real history and no male equivalent.