Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) returned to the highest step of the Ford RideLondon Classique on Sunday, winner of all three phases and the overall classification.
The Dutchwoman repeated the feat she beforehand achieved in 2022, taking a clear sweep on the race held throughout Essex and London. She gained in Colchester on Friday, Maldon on Saturday, and on The Mall on Sunday, delivered every time to the road by her world champion teammate, Lotte Kopecky, and unrivalled within the bunch dash.Â
Wiebes’s compatriot Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich Put up NL) completed second general, 25 seconds down accounting for bonus seconds. Kopecky rounded out the rostrum in third.Â
“Driving by the centre of London was particular. I loved it,” Wiebes mentioned afterwards. “It was good that we completed one and three within the basic classification. It is implausible that we proved unbeatable on this RideLondon.”Â
After successful an uphill dash convincingly on day one, the SD Worx-Protime rider made no secret of her ambition to say all three phases.Â
“I had my sights set on the hat-trick,” she mentioned. “It’s at all times troublesome to repeat performances and a hat-trick is much more troublesome to realize. It helps when you have got such sturdy teammates round you. I need to thank them for all the things they’ve completed for me.”Â
Claiming victory on the Mall, specifically, proved a memorable second for the Dutchwoman. When she gained the race in 2022, the occasion coincided with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, that means the enduring dash end was moved from outdoors Buckingham Palace to the shadows of the Homes of Parliament.Â
On the Mall on Sunday, each Wiebes and her teammate Kopecky mentioned they had been “proud” of how their crew raced this time spherical.Â
“It was a collectively sturdy efficiency from the crew,” Kopecky mentioned. “What I particularly like is how we are able to belief one another. That’s the key to success. Typically your intuition says in any other case, however it is best to at all times belief and observe your lead-out. By drawing confidence from one another, you may end it off in such hectic sprints. I’m proud of Lorena Wiebes’s hat-trick.”
Having gained all three bunch sprints, Wiebes additionally earned victory within the factors classification on the race.Â
The mountains classification was gained by Uno-X’s Rebecca Koerner, who collected factors in a breakaway on stage one. The perfect younger rider on the race was 22-year-old Eleonora Gasparrini (UAE Staff ADQ), who completed eighth general.Â
