Marta Lach (Ceratizit-WNT) gained stage 2 of the Tour of Chongming Island in a mass dash, with stage 1 winner Mylène de Zoete and Kathrin Schweinberger finishing a 1-2-3 for the workforce.
Alba Teruel (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi) completed simply behind Schweinberger in fourth place.
The way it unfolded
Sofie van Rooijen (VolkerWessels) gained the primary intermediate dash forward of Lach and Hanna Tserakh (BTC Metropolis Ljubljana Zhiraf Ambedo), and the second intermediate dash was taken by Dronova who had attacked a bit earlier and gone solo. Scarlett Souren (VolkerWessels) gained the dash for second forward of Schweinberger.
At 46km from the end, Dronova was 16 seconds forward, then Zhao bridged throughout the hole. Dronova let the Chinese language rider take the entrance after which sat on her wheel, refusing to take a flip and each had been caught with 39.5km to go.
Zhang attacked lower than a kilometre later and shortly constructed a large hole. Her teammate Lu Siying went after her however by no means made it to the entrance, hovering round 20 seconds behind Zhang whereas the peloton was as much as 38 seconds behind. When Lu was reeled in 26km from the end, the counterattacks that adopted lifted the velocity of the peloton, and Zhang was additionally caught with 23km to go.
Nerlo counterattacked straight away and shortly had a 20-second lead, with Ceratizit-WNT and VolkerWessels organising the chase. 15km from the road, Nerlo was 48 seconds up on the peloton earlier than her benefit got here down once more because the sprinters’ groups went all-out to reel her in. With Human Powered Well being including to the chase effort within the remaining ten kilometres, Nerlo was caught 3.8km from the road.
When Alonso swung off on the 500-metre mark, Schweinberger began to crank up the velocity with De Zoete in her wheel and Lach to the proper of the yellow jersey, however Eleonora Gasparrini (UAE Crew ADQ) took the lead. Her teammate Neumanová needed to go round a few riders to get into Gasparrini’s wheel.