BARCELONA, 2 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Dutch cyclist Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx – Protime) won this Thursday the fifth stage of La Vuelta Femenina 24 by Carrefour.es, held between Huesca and Alto del Fuerte Rapitán (Jaca) over 113.9 kilometers, with a strong attack final to inaugurate her record this year and confirm herself as a great candidate for the final victory.
On the fifth day, Demi Vollering won in La Vuelta Femenina and, in the sixth stage, she will start dressed in ‘La Roja’. She will leave the Dutch champion’s jersey to don the leader’s jersey, achieved with an unanswered attack less than 2 kilometers from the finish line, at the top of Alto del Fuerte Rapitán, a 3.2-kilometer climb at an 8.1 percent slope. half.
The Dutchwoman led the cut on Wednesday, the fan, which eliminated some of her rivals and half of the Movistar Team. This time, Team SD Worx-Protime was once again the protagonist, setting a great pace and, when Vollering was left without teammates, she took the opportunity to attack and gain 28 seconds over her compatriot Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) and the Italian Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek).
Vollering had the help, among other teammates, of the former leader of this Women’s Tour Blanka Vas (Team SD Worx-Protime), who already suffered something on the previous climb to Alto del Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña (16.8 kilometers 3.2 percent).
But she couldn’t keep up the pace on the final climb, nor could the wearer of the red jersey on this mountain day, the also Dutch Marianne Vos (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), who is one of the best cyclists in history but who He still suffers too much in mountain stages. She gave up the lead with 2:22 minutes lost at the finish line in a stage in which she also fell.
It was a stage in which the Spanish Lourdes Oyarbide (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi), with a distant and solitary attack, and Mavi García (Liv AlUla Jayco) tried to give national prominence to the race, but without success. The veteran Mavi García was the best Spanish, eighteenth, 1:50 behind Vollering.
Now, Demi Vollering has a 31-second margin over the Italian Longo Borghini in the provisional general classification, with the Dutch Riejanne Markus (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) third at 53 seconds. The ‘Top 5’ is completed by the American Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Cannondale) and the Frenchwoman Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), at 1:10 and 1:13 respectively.
This Friday the sixth stage will once again have a high finish. You will leave Tarazona and reach La Laguna Negra de Vinuesa after 132.1 kilometers, quite flat until you reach Vinuesa and begin the tough climb to the finish line, in a 1st category climb of 6.5 kilometers at 6.7 percent. medium slope).
2024-05-02 16:07:48
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