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Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM) gained stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Donne with a 24-kilometre solo, narrowly holding off maglia rosa Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar Staff) to take the largest victory of her profession.
Niedermaier had attacked simply earlier than the highest of the penultimate categorized climb of the day and began the six-kilometre Sant’Ignazio with a one-minute benefit on the group of favourites.
Van Vleuten and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) made their transfer on the ultimate climb and rapidly distanced the remainder of the group, however Niedermaier held on to 11 seconds on Van Vleuten and 14 seconds to Longo Borghini on the high.
On the technical descent, Van Vleuten went off the asphalt however didn’t crash and rapidly returned to the street. Longo Borghini was much less lucky, overcooking a nook, crashing into the forest, and shedding a whole lot of time.
The ultimate kilometres to the end have been a pursuit race between Niedermaier and Van Vleuten, however Niedermaier managed to carry on to an eight-second hole.
At 1:25 minutes down, Niamh Fisher-Black (Staff SD Worx) led residence the subsequent group with Juliette Labous (Staff dsm-firmenich), Veronica Ewers (EF Schooling-TIBCO-SVB), and Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek).
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