Nienke Veenhoven (Visma-Lease a Bike) took a slim victory on the Down Underneath Criterium forward of Georgia Baker (Liv Jayco AlUla) by half a motorbike size after 50 minutes of breathless racing in Adelaide.
The post-Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath occasion performed out on a 1.2km circuit at Victoria Park. A 12-rider bunch sprinted it out for the victory after a number one breakaway was caught firstly of the bell lap.
Veenhoven’s Visma-Lease a Bike workforce labored tirelessly alongside Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath total winner Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) to catch the break led by Nienke Vinke (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) and FDJ-Suez and had been rewarded with victory.
Lidl-Trek’s Lauretta Hanson took third with Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Staff ADQ) and Soraya Paladin (Canyon SRAM) rounding out the highest 5.Â
Veenhoven has a robust monitor racing pedigree and took second within the scratch race behind Lorena Wiebes (SD-Worx Protime) finally yr’s Dutch nationwide monitor championships.
The Ladies’s WorldTour racing on the Tour Down Underneath completed on Sunday, with Gigante claiming the ultimate stage on high of Willunga and the general race forward of Vinke.
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