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Within the remaining Giro d’Italia Donne of her 16-year professional profession, Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) led the race from begin to end and received the final classification for the fourth time, celebrating her achievement on the rostrum following the finale stage 9 in Olbia.
“Profitable the GC is at all times tremendous particular as a result of you could do it with a workforce. I did win it with completely different groups, that is the second with Movistar, and I’m tremendous happy with my workforce to complete it off. It’s at all times tense, however you have got the workforce round you, that makes it particular,” stated Van Vleuten earlier than receiving her fourth Giro winner’s trophy on the rostrum, flanked by Juliette Labous (Staff DSM-Firmenich) in second place and Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek) in third.
The maglia rosa was by no means in hassle on the ultimate stage from Sassari to Olbia which led to a dash end regardless of quite a few breakaways.
The final escapee, Alessia Vigilia (Prime Women Fassa Bortolo), was caught on the five-kilometre mark, and in a chaotic dash, Chiara Consonni (UAE Staff ADQ) beat Marianne Vos (Staff Jumbo-Visma) and Ally Wollaston (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal Fast Step) to take the stage win.
“I’m actually, actually comfortable, I’ve no phrases. All of the workforce stayed near me for all of those ten onerous days and supported me day-after-day, so I wish to say because of all of them. The dash was actually onerous and tense, as at all times. We knew that it might be tremendous onerous and never simple to interpret. However I trusted my teammates who introduced me to the entrance,” stated stage winner Consonni.
“This Giro was not so good for me, I wasn’t in my greatest situation, however now I’m actually comfortable to finish it with this lovely win. That is for Marta [Bastianelli], at present is her final race, and I’m actually comfortable to share together with her and all the women of the workforce,” Consonni thanked her workforce and particularly Marta Bastianelli who retires after the Giro Donne.
The way it unfolded
The peloton stayed collectively for the primary hour-and-a-half of the 127-kilometre stage. UAE Staff ADQ had Sofia Bertizzolo and Silvia Persico dash for first locations on the intermediate dash in Perfugas, however Veronica Ewers (EF Training-TIBCO-SVB) managed to come back third, taking a one-second bonification and placing her on the identical time as UAE Staff ADQ’s Erica Magnaldi.
Because of this, the fourth place total was selected stage inserting countback the place Ewers had the higher hand.
When the dwell broadcast started with 68km to go, the assaults began to fly. Iris Monticolo (Prime Women Fassa Bortolo) was the primary to flee, however Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer (Israel-Premier Tech Roland) rapidly handed her to go on a solo breakaway. Monticolo and Prisca Savi (BePink-Gold) tried to bridge to Kiesenhofer however had been reeled in by the peloton.
Kiesenhofer prolonged her hole to 46 seconds however faltered on the lengthy climb to Tempio Pausania and was finally caught 4 kilometres from the hilltop city.
An assault by Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-SUEZ) with 44km to go initiated a entrance group of fourteen that solely final for a number of kilometres, and counterattacks by Marie Le Web (FDJ-SUEZ) and Elena Pirrone (Israel-Premier Tech Roland) additionally got here to naught.
A transfer by Liane Lippert (Movistar Staff) lasted a bit longer, however she, too, was introduced again 35km from the end. After a short lull, Vigilia went away with 27km to go, and the peloton appeared comfortable together with her easily-controllable transfer. Vigilia was nonetheless 16 seconds forward with six kilometres to go, however because the dash trains cranked up the tempo, she was caught one kilometre later.
In between the sprinters’ groups, Movistar Staff went to the entrance to get Van Vleuten safely to the end, and Uno-X Professional Biking Staff took the peloton on the final two kilometres. Staff DSM-Firmenich and Canyon-SRAM got here to the entrance, and their sprinter Chloé Dygert entered the ending straight in third place with Consonni on her wheel.
Rachele Barbieri (Liv Racing TeqFind) launched her dash on the 300-metre mark, and Wollaston jumped just a bit bit later. With 100 metres to go, Consonni handed Barbieri to take the lead, and though Vos tried to come back across the Italian sprinter simply earlier than the end, Consonni received the stage.
On prime of the maglia rosa, Van Vleuten wins the maglia ciclamino for the factors classification and the maglia verde for the very best climber, and Movistar additionally win the workforce classification. Third-placed Realini wins the maglia bianca for the very best U23 rider and the maglia azzurra for the very best Italian.
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