Vollering wins opening stage at Itzulia Women
Rooijakkers and Faulkner round out pod𓃲ium in Labastida

















168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx) won stage 1 of the inaugural 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Itzulia Women stage race after being very active in the final. The Dutchwoman beat Pauliena Rooijakkers (Canyon-Sram) and Kristen Faulkner (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) to the line in Labastida.
Elise Chabbey (Canyon-Sram) a🥂ttacked over the top of the last classified climb and was joined by Vollering, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (Team SD Worx), and Lucinda Brand (Trek-Segafredo) on the descent.
When this group had been caught, Faulkner counterattacked 16 km from the finish 🍰and got a small gap. Rooijak🐻kers and Vollering went on the chase with 13 km to go and quickly bridged to Faulkner. They increased their advantage to 41 seconds at the finish line.
On the final kilometre, Rooijakke🧸rs attacked with 200 metres to go and entered the steep finishing straight first, but Vollering fought back and won the stage ahead of Rooijakkers and Faulkner. Liane Lippert (Team DSM) won the sprint of the peloton for fourth place.
"It was a hard race," Voller꧋ing said after the finish. "I was in the first group after the downhill, but we couldn't make it into the fina𝐆l. Then I thought, 'ok, now I need to try to recover and then find a good moment to attack again'. I found a good moment and then Pauliena came with me. She is a nice person to have in the break, she is always riding with you."
Vollering had led the group of three on the final kilometre and said that Rooij𝔍akkers' move didn't surprise her: "I expected Pauliena to make it a long sprint as she went already before the corner, but I tried to keep my head cool and try to get over her again, and I made it. It was a really nice finish, I like it, so it was good for me. It is nice to be in the leader's jersey tomorrow."
Vollering leads the general classification with a six-second advantage on Rooijakkers and ten seconds ahead of Faulkner. Due to bonus seconds, Brand is fourth at 50 seconds, Moolman Pasio sits in fifth place at 52 secon💫ds, with Lippert leading a large group of riders at 53 seconds.
How it unfolded
The break of the day went after 30 of the day's 105.9 kilometres and consisted of Prisca Sꦑavi (BePink), Anastasia L꧑ebedeva (Eneicat-RBH Global), Cristina Tonetti (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo), and Mireia Benito (Massi Tactic).
Tonetti won the first intermediate sprint while Benito was first over the second-category climb of Mirador de Rivas and will wear the mountain jersey on stage 🐼2.
Benitoꦯ was also the escapee who stayed away the longest, only be൩ing caught on the slopes of the third-category climb to Herrera, the last classified climb of the day that was followed by a fast descent and a rolling final.
Chabbey took full points at the top and soon got company from Vollering, Moolman-Pasio, 🎶and Brand. They had a 13-second advantage with 30km to go, and although they increased this to 25 seconds on the climb to the intermediate sprint in Laguardia, the peloton reeled the quartet in with 18 kilometres to♐ the finish due to the work of Team DSM.
Faulkner was next to get away. She was joined by Vollering and Rooijakkers, and the peloton had nothing left to control the gap, 🐠leaving the trio to fight for the stage win.
On top of the general classification, Vollering also leads the points classification, though Rooijakkers will wear the green points jersey in her stead. Volleri𒈔ng's teammate Niamh Fisher-Black, 11th overall, is the best young rider and will start stage 2 in the blue U23 ꦏjersey.
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