Amgen Women's Race stage 3 – Race debrief

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Arlenis Sierra (Astana) sprints to victory on stage 3 of the 2018 Amgen Women's Race in Sacr🦹amento(Image credit: Jonathan Devich)

Race: Amgen Women's Race (Women's WorldTour)
Date: May 19, 2018
Distance: 70km
Weather: Sunny, blue skies, 22-25°C

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Amgen Women's Race: Ha♌ll wins queen stage to South ꦜLake Tahoe

ಌHall not letting Amgen Women's Race coꦚme down to bonus sprints

Where the race was won: In her heart-breaking loss at the Amgen Women's Race in 2017, Katie Hall had gone into the final stage with a mere one-second gap over Anna van der Breggen and her powerful Boels-Dolmans team. While Hall is among the best in the mountains, flatter sprint stages don't come easy to a rider of her tiny stature. And despite UnitedHealthcare's incredible team effort to control the race last year, Van der Breggen netted two very valuable seconds in the intermediate s🐷print and secured the win.

Yet nothing stuck, and when the intermediate sprint came with five laps to go, there was little interest from the big teams to contest it. Instead, Shannon Malseed of Team Tibco snuck off early with Brenda Santoyo Perez (Swapit) on her wheel. The two were given enough leeway that th🍰ey easily claimed the sprint points and bonus seconds. Twelve seconds behind them, stage one winner Kendall Ryan (Tibco) claimed the final bonus second.

Final kilometre: Team Sunweb took control of the peloton at the start of the last lap and set the pace ahead of the final sprint. As the peloton headed for the line, Rally set up a train on the left in support of youngster Emma White. On the right, Coryn Rivera (Sunweb) was seeking a repeat win in downtown Sacramento where she's been claiming wins since she was j🔯ust a teenager. But, in the end, it was Astana's powerful sprinter, Arlenis Sierra, who took the victory, just ahead of Canyon-SRAM's Alexis Ryan and Rally's White.

Most aggressive team: Team Sunweb. Winder's first attack came within the opening five kilometres of the race, setting the tone for what was to 𒐪come. The white-and-black team would relentlessly attack throughout the race, and every teammate had her turn while sprinter Rivera saved her legs at the rear of the peloton. Rivera, however, was late🍃r outpaced, and only narrowly missed the podium. But Sunweb wouldn't come away completely empty-handed: Lippert's tireless accelerations were rewarded with the blue 'most courageous rider' jersey.

Unluckiest rider: Canyon-SRAM's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2017 Zwift finalist, Leah Thorvilson, struggled today. She got popped off the back of the bike race barely one lap into the 20-lap race. She then soloed on for another 10 laps before being pulled from the race. Thorvilson told Cyclingnews later that the race marshals had got confused, as Team Illuminate's Alexandra Millard also got dropped😼 and lapped by the pelo♍ton, but had been allowed to finish the race.