Itzulia Women - Vollering wins stage 3 to take overall victory
Demi Vollering took an exceptional clean sweep♓ of stage v🥀ictories at Itzulia Women












168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx) has stamped her authority on the inaugural Itzulia Woꦇmen, winning all three stages and the general classification. On the final stage, run on the course of the Clásica San Sebastián, Vollering attacked over the top of the final climb, the steep Murgil Tontorra, and soloed to the finish in Donostia, crossing the finish line 15 seconds ahead of Liane Lippert (Team DSM) who outsprinted Marta Cavalli (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope) to win the sprint for second place.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pauliena Rooijakkers (Canyon-SRAM) finished the Basque stage race as overall runner-up, 47 seconds behind Vollering, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kristen Faulkner (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) rounding🌸 out the podium at 1:07 minutes.
"It was an awesome race, I really liked the course. It was really hot again today, that also ma🧸de it hard. I am very grateful to my ꧒team, we had only four riders, but four super-good climbers, and you really need climbers here because it’s always going up or down," Vollering thanked her teammates.
Talking about her stage-winning attack on the ⭕Murgil Tontorra, she said: "We wanted to keep the jersey, that was the main goal, and I felt that I still had something left on the last steep climb. I went fo🌱r it and then just gave it all I had left. I am really happy to win again."
How it unfolded
The final stage of the Itzulia Women was held on the same 139.8-kilometre course as the last years’ Clásica San Sebasti&aaꦅcute;n, with the Jai🍸zkibel and Murgil Tontorra among its four classified climbs.
Marit Raaijmakers (Human Powered Health) and Giorgia Bariani (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo) were the first to break away, and Morgane Coston (Arkéa Pro Cycling Team), Naia Amo🍃ndarain (Sopela Women’s Team), and Margaux Vigie (Valcar-Travel & Service) joined them after a long chase.
Marta Jaskulska (Liv Racing Xstra) and Lija Laizane (Eneicat-RBH Global) as well as Georgia Williams (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) and Špela Kern (Massi Tactic) also jumped away fr𒁃om the peloton to chase, but they never made it to the front.
The breakaway started the Jaizkibel with a four-minute advantage. Coston left everyone else behind on the climb and continued on her own while the other escapees were reele💖d in on the desc꧋ent.
Then Jelena Erić (Movistar Team) attacked from the peloton and was joined by Mireia Benito (Massi Tactic), Nina Buijsman (Human Powered Health), and Tereza Neumanová (Liv Racing Xstra), but they were caught again on the category-three climb to Gurutze.
After attempts by Stine Borgli (FDJ Nouv🍌elle-Aquitaine Futuroscope) and Anna Shackley (Team SD Worx), it was Jeanne Korevaar (Liv Racing Xstra) who jumped free of the peloton with 25 kilometres to go, accompanied by Shirin van Anrooij (Trek-Se🅠gafredo). They steadily gained ground on Coston, reaching her 19.5 km from the finish.
Starting the Murgil Tontorra climb with gradients of up to 19 percent 35 seconds ahead of the peloton that was already falling apart, Van Anrooij quickly dropped Korevaar and Coston. Fighting her way up the hairpin, she was finally caught by a group of꧅ eight riders only 300 metres from the top of the climb.
Vollering made her move soon afterwards, opening a small gap on Rooijakkers. Racing down the fast descent into Donostia, the race leader increased her advantage to 20 sec🗹onds and had plenty of time to celebrate her third stage victory in as many days.
Vollering also won the points classification while her teammate Fisher-Black, seventh overall, was the best U23 rider. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Elise Chabbey (Canyon-SRAM) took home the polka-dot jersey as t𒀰he winner of the mountain classification.
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Lukas Knöfler started working in cycling communications in 2013 and has seen the inside of the scene from many angles. Having worked as press officer for teams and races and written for several online and print publications, he has been Cyclingnews’ Women’s WorldT🎶our correspondent since 2018.
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