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Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) claimed victory in the first stage of the 2025 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Tour Women.

Havi🌼ng been led out perfectly by her teammates, she took part in a drag race against her rival 🐓and Dutch compatriot Charlotte Kool (Picnic PostNL) but was comfortably the quickest. 

Kool had to settle for second, while Nienke Veenhoven (V🌱isma-Lease a Bikeಞ) was third. 

The result means Wiebes will swap her European Champions’ jerse꧂y for the red jersey, as the overall leader of the race.

Wiebes opened her account in just her first race of the 2025 season💝, just as she did here last year at the same finish at Dubai Harbour. 

Whereas Kool was forced to start her sprint early, running out of teammates on the finishing straight, Wiebes was guided into position by lead-out riders Marta Lach and Barbara Guarischi, who took control of the peloton from Human Powered Health following the crucial f꧋inal corner inside the last kilometre. 

The pair were side by side with a feꦦw hundred metres left, but Wiebes had fresher legs and a faster kick, ending up with a comfortable winning margin on the line. 

"The feeling is really good," said a smiling Wiebes at the finish. "I think it was really a fair sprint. We were both [her and Kool] fully꧒ in the wind. I’m happy that my sprint is still at a high level. ⛦But there are still two stages to come, so I need to keep going.

"I think the team did a really good job to put us into 🐎position. It was chaotic, as expected. But we went well into 🌌the next corner, and then Marta and Barbara did a good job to do the lead out and drop me off at a good point. Charlotte [Kool] came at speed from the back, so first I had to catch her a bit back. I felt strong all the way to the finish."

How it unfolded

Many of the leading riders in the world assembled in the Middle East for the third leg of the 2025 Women’s World Tour. Today was the first of four stages of the UAE Tour, and, taking place over flat roads, was anticipated to be a day for thℱe sprinters. 

Crosswinds could have 👍complicated that, given the exposed nature of the wide open desert roads, but cꦓonditions were calm and the peloton remained together. 

Setting off from Dubai’s police officers club, Linda Laporta (BePink-Imatra-Bongioanni) was the first rider to make a move as she set off on a solo attack. Sylvie Swinkels (Roland) and Cristina🍨 Tonetti (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi) formed a chasing duo behind but did not manage to catch her prior to the first intermediate sprint of the day situated 32km into t💟he stage, allowing Laporta to take maximum points.

Those three riders eventually came together, and a relaxed chase in the peloton allowed them to gain a lead that e꧃xceeded eight minutes at its height.&nbs♐p;

That left the break to contest the second intermediate sprint, 66km froꦕm the finish. This time Tonetti took the spoils, coming round Swinkels before the line afterไ Tonetti had been caught and passed following an early attack. 

It was on the approach to this intermediate sprint that the peloton began to chase in earnest, with SD Worx-Protime among the teams to move to the front. Their work saw the gap between them and th൩e leading trio plummet rapidly, from over seven minutes about 70km from the finish, to a mere 1-30 at 50km to go.

With 52km to go, there was a large high-speed cra🐷sh towa♛rds the front of the peloton, with over 20 riders going down. Among those to fall were Mavi García (Liv AlUla Jayco), Lizzie Deignan (Lidl-Trek) and Ashleigh Moolman (AG Insurance-Soudal), although nobody appeared too badly hurt. However, Letizia Paternoster (Liv AlUla Jayco) was forced to abandon as a result. 

That crash took some of the impetus out of the chase, as the pace slacke𝓰ned and those caught out made their way back into the peloton. A large group of chasers rejoined about 40km from the finish, at which point the break still led by over a minute. 

The leading trio fought on, remaining out front while the pelot𝓀on bided their time in bringing theꦇm back. 

Laporta was the first to be swept up 11km from the finish after she didn’t have the legs to respond to an acceleration from Swinkels. Swinkels and Tonetti still had plenty of ener🥃gy left and managed to hold off the bunch for a while longer, before finally being caught 3km from 🤪the finish. 

The fina✨l sprint then unfolded with a strong SD Worx-Protime lead-out guiding Wiebes around the final right-hand bend with 700 metres to go, before she easily outsprinted Kool for the win.

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