Marianne Vos took her second stage victory of the 2024 Vuelta Femenina on stage 7, because the Visma-Lease a Bike rider gained the uphill dash to the road within the metropolis of Sigüenza forward of Kristen Faulkner (EF Training-Cannondale) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek). Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) completed in fourth place on the stage to keep up her total lead within the common classification forward of the ultimate stage.
After taking the victory on stage 3, Vos briefly went into the general lead of the race on stage 4 and took the lead within the factors classification on stage 5. She has held the lead in that classification ever since and her win on stage 7 virtually ensures that she shall be sporting the maillot verde on the ultimate podium.
Talking after the stage in her post-race interview, Vos mentioned “we actually wished to try to go for the stage win at the moment. That’s the explanation why the staff managed it and naturally once they achieve this a lot you wish to attempt to make it within the finale. Riejanne Markus and I had been on this last break when the échelons began and that was an excellent state of affairs, but in addition arduous to regulate, so it was a little bit bit traumatic. Once we entered the ultimate kilometre, we simply tried to remain in the very best place and go for it”.
On the crosswinds that outlined the stage, the Dutch rider mentioned “it was open and there was wind, so there was this chance and the previous few days we didn’t have the wind from the proper aspect. However at the moment it was simply open with crosswinds, so we had échelons once more”.
The wind situations drastically influenced the way in which through which the stage performed out, as with round 40km to go the riders entered a windy part of the course and the race started to separate a number of kilometres later as échelons started to type. All the major contenders made the entrance group, with the entire main groups well-represented aside from Movistar, who missed the cut up fully.
HOW IT HAPPENED
At the beginning of the day, there have been two makes an attempt to type a breakaway, however each strikes did not materialise. It was not till a 4 rider group with Anna Kiesenhofer (Roland), Veronica Ewers (EF Training-Cannondale), Yuliia Biriukova (Human Powered Well being) and Laura Tomasi (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi) went off the entrance with 114km to go {that a} breakaway started to determine itself.
They had been then joined by a 3 rider group containing Angela Oro (Bepink-Bongioanni), Quinty Schoens (VolkerWessels) and Stina Kagevi (Coop-Repsol) with round 108km to go. Their hole fluctuated considerably for round 25km, earlier than it appeared that the peloton had been content material with the choice on the entrance of the race, as their benefit started to develop.
Nevertheless, their hole started to lower once more earlier than they had been ultimately caught with 66km to go. Kiesenhofer then attacked once more a kilometre later and she or he was ultimately joined by eight different riders and with 48km to go that they had round a niche of a minute over the peloton.
After the intermediate dash in Barahona, the riders entered the crosswind part with splits starting to type within the peloton and the hole to the breakaway reducing. The leaders had been then caught by the principle group with round 38km to go.
The cut up within the peloton had brought on a bunch of 29 riders to get a niche on the entrance of the race, because the race started to splinter. With a niche of over a minute on the second group on the street with 25km to go, the entire major groups had been represented aside from Movistar, who had been pressured to chase within the peloton behind.
Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) then suffered a crash a number of kilometres later, which brought on her to lose a major period of time on the stage that meant she dropped down a number of positions within the total standings.
Within the last 10km of the stage, a number of assaults went off the entrance of the race, as riders made a late try and go clear and take the stage win. A gaggle of 4 riders together with Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime) and Alison Jackson (EF Training-Cannondale) went away with round 4km to go and so they managed to get a niche of round ten seconds.
They had been introduced again with 2.3km to go, which meant that the stage would come all the way down to the ultimate dash on the uphill end. As they hit the slopes of the climb to the road, Kristen Faulkner led out the group as she opened up her dash early with Elisa Longo Borghini on her wheel.
With 150 metres to go, Marianne Vos opened up her dash and no one may get wherever close to her, as she instantly distanced these behind her. After a glance again to see the riders struggling in her wake, she sat as much as have fun her second stage victory of the race. Faulkner managed to carry off Longo Borghini for second place, while these behind trickled throughout the road in ones and twos.
RESULTS: LA VUELTA FEMENINA, STAGE SIX, SAN ESTEBAN DE GORMAZ › SIGÜENZA (138.6KM)
1. Marianne Vos (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike, in 3:27:56
2. Kristen Faulkner (USA) EF Training-Cannondale, +2s
3. Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Lidl-Trek
4. Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime
5. Ingvild Gåskjenn (Nor) Liv AlUla Jayco
6. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZl) SD Worx-Protime
7. Riejanne Markus (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike
8. Évita Muzic (Fra) FDJ-Suez, all at identical time
9. Pauliena Rooijakkers (Ned) Fenix-Deceuninck, +8s
10. Eline Jansen (Ned) VolkerWessels, +10s
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE SIX
1. Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime, in 20:47:59
2. Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Lidl-Trek, +52s
3. Riejanne Markus (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike, +1:14
4. Juliette Labous (Fra) dsm-firmenich PostNL. +1:48
5. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZl) SD Worx-Protime, +2:16
6. Évita Muzic (Fra) FDJ-Suez, +2:42
7. Kristen Faulkner (USA) EF Training-Cannondale, +3:23
8. Marlen Reusser (Sui) SD Worx-Protime, +3:24
9. Ricarda Bauerfind (Ger) Canyon-SRAM, +3:27
10. Yara Kastelijn (Ned) Fenix-Deceuninck, + 4:07
