Shirin van Anrooij (Netherlands) soloed to victory on the mountainous stage 5 and captured the general title on the ultimate day of racing on the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes.
Anna Shackley (Nice Britain) crossed the end line 2:20 again for second and Petra Stiasny Switzerland) was third, one other 1:11 off the profitable tempo. Thursday’s stage winner Gaia Realini (Italy) was solely 5 seconds behind Stiasny and secured fourth place.
Two of the highest contenders marked one another throughout the end, Fem van Empel (Netherlands) using simply forward of race chief Antonia Niedermaier (Germany), who had been fourth and fifth, respectively, and 6:34 again.
The European champion overtook Realini on the ascent of the center climb of the queen stage, the Cormet de Roseland, and went into the historical past books as the primary champion of the five-day U23 girls’s race.
Van Anrooij jumped two spots within the GC with the emphatic victory, going 2:20 away from runner-up Shackely within the total standings. Realini moved into third on the general, whereas Niedermaier fell to fourth.
The fifth and last stage was the queen stage, with 2,543 metres of elevation acquire throughout 98.3km from the foot of Mont-Blanc in Saint-Gervais to Sainte Foy Tarentaise, a resort within the Savoie. Three categorised climbs dominated the route – Col des Saisies (13.7km at 5.1%), Cormet de Roselend (19.9km at 6%) and Montée de Villaroger (4.9km at 5.1%), with the class 2 Villaroger offering a launchpad of 7km to the end line.
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