In her penultimate race for the Ceratizit-WNT group, Marta Lach has received the ultimate stage and with it the final classification of the 2024 Tour of Chongming Island. The Polish rider received the bunch dash forward of Scarlett Souren and Sofie van Rooijen (each VolkerWessels), and the accompanying bonus seconds put her forward of teammate and stage 1 winner Mylène de Zoete in GC.
The stage was dominated by a breakaway from Anne Knijnenburg (VolkerWessels) and Nela Slaníková (Staff Dukla Praha) who have been as much as 1:42 minutes forward. Knijnenburg went solo with 23km to go, however she was caught 4.5km from the end.
Within the dash, Van Rooijen handed Tereza Neumanová (UAE Staff ADQ), however Lach got here off the Dutchwoman’s wheel and took a snug victory, with Souren even beating her personal teammate to second place in Lach’s slipstream.
The way it unfolded
The ultimate stage consisted of a 29.9-kilometre loop adopted by seven laps on a 11.5km circuit, creating a complete stage distance of 110.4km. Intermediate sprints after the lengthy loop and after the second and fourth quick laps supplied bonus seconds.
Knijnenburg took the day’s QOM dash on the Dongpinghe Bridge, securing her the QOM jersey. Her teammate Van Rooijen then received the primary intermediate dash forward of Neumanová and Lach, placing Van Rooijen and Neumanová 11 seconds behind De Zoete in GC whereas Lach lowered her hole to just one second.
The second intermediate dash was received by Souren forward of Kathrin Schweinberger (Ceratizit-WNT) and Jutatip Maneephan (Thailand Girls’s Biking). On the third of the seven quick laps, Knijnenburg and Slaníková went off the entrance, rapidly constructing a large hole for the Tour of Chongming Island.
Aurela Nerlo (Winspace), April Tacey (Staff Coop-Repsol), and Rachael Wales (ARA-Skip Capital) shaped a chase group between the 2 frontrunners and the peloton.
19-year-old Slaníková grew to become the digital yellow jersey when the attackers have been 1:40 forward with 40km to go. She was one spot forward of Knijnenburg within the GC going into the stage.
Knijnenburg regarded the stronger of the duo, although, successful the ultimate intermediate dash to leapfrog Slaníková in GC and take the digital lead. Tacey took the final remaining bonus second from the chase group.
Ceratizit-WNT have been main the peloton and introduced the hole all the way down to 1:quarter-hour with 24km to go, reeling within the chase group within the course of. Knijnenburg dropped Slaníková simply earlier than getting into the penultimate lap, her benefit now all the way down to 50 seconds.
Because the bell was rung out for the ultimate 11.5km lap, Knijnenburg was 35 seconds forward of the peloton that had caught Slaníková. Human Powered Well being and Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi additionally contributed to the chase.
7.5km from the road, Knijnenburg’s benefit was all the way down to 19 seconds, and she or he quickly shook her head in resignation earlier than being caught three kilometres later.
Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi led the peloton right into a chaotic remaining kilometre. 550 metres from the end, UAE Staff ADQ took over with Anastasia Carbonari and Eleonora Gasparrini main out Neumanová.
Van Rooijen was on the Czech sprinter’s wheel, and Lach jumped on Van Rooijen’s wheel whereas De Zoete was boxed in.
A number of riders crashed into the obstacles that began with 250 metres to go, inflicting a mass crash round place 30 within the peloton. On the entrance, Gasparrini dropped off Neumanová who began her dash 200 metres from the road, with Van Rooijen and Lach popping out off her slipstream virtually instantly. Lach took the lead within the final 100 metres and beat Souren by half a bikelength whereas Van Rooijen edged out Neumanová for third place.
Together with her two stage victories, Lach additionally received the inexperienced jersey whereas Van Rooijen received the white U23 jersey. Ceratizit-WNT received the group classification on account of their domination.
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