Today's stage of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Tour Women 2025 saw the fastest average spee🎐d of a women's WorldTour stage race, ever.

The 111km stage which featured flat and wide desert roads, with ferocious crosswinds was won by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime).

This wasn't a surprise given her sprinting form and her win yest൩erday, but it was the average speed of the front group, which w🦩as the most notable at 48.407 km/h.

The leading group of five riders, which included Wiebes, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ), alongside teammates Lara Gil꧙lespie and Karlijn Swinkelsm and Lily Williams (Human Powe𓄧red Health) formed an echelon within the first few kilometres of the race and held off the peloton for the duration.

The previous fastest speed record for a WorldTour stage was recorded last year at stage four of La Vuelta Femenina where 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kristen Faulkner 🌺claimed victory with an average speedﷺ of 46.75km/h.

In 2023 the record stood at 45.9km/h which was recordཧed at stage 2 in the Vuelta a Burgos the same year.

"Wow, that's filthy," Williams said to Cyclingnews when we broke the news of the fastest average spee🌌d to her.

"It's crazy, every year the l𓄧evel progresses more and more and it's fun to feel that I'm at the🐼 pointy edge of that."

The Hum𝕴an Po🌃wered Health rider had thought the peloton would catch the breakaway.

"The echelon s🐼tarted immediately and honestly I was thinking the peloton would let us dangle until the second crosswind section and then come with speed after we were fatigued, so I wasn't doing too much in the first bit," W𝓀illiams said.

"But once we hit the tailwind, we had a three-minute gap and we were just riding. Longo Borghini was trying to gain time on GC so UAE were🎐 obligated to do the work, but I was𒉰 really on the limit.

"Longo Borghini was by far the strongest, and Lorena looked quite good. I would have ꦜrolled through more if I could but I was just holding on until the end."

Wi✱lliams is an Olympic gold and bronze medallist and world champion for Team USA in the team pursuit and has spent six of her eight years as a pro cyclist with the US-based team.

She 🐈was surprised at her own ability to keep with the breakaway for the duration.

"I knew I could probably get a result if I sprinted, but I wasn't honestly confident I was going to make it with that group but I did so it's good. It was a tough d𒀰ay for sure."

A worthy addition to the history books.