The veteran Dutch cyclist Marianne Vosfrom the Visma team, won this Saturday the seventh and penultimate stage of the women’s Vuelta a España, which is 138.6 kilometers between Saint Stephen of Gormaz (Soria) and Sigüenza (Guadalajara) and after that his countryman Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) remains the leader of the individual overall standings.
Vos, 36 years old and already with 253 professional victories, launched a final attack on the final slope to win by a two-second margin against a group of seven runners led by American Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Cannondale ), the Italian Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and the leader herself, Demi Vollering.
This is the second victory of Vos in this edition of the Vuelta after the one achieved in the third stage, in Teruel. In addition, classification by round points is mathematically assured.
In the remaining eighth and final stage, which will take place this Sunday between the Telefónica District, in Madrid, and the Valdesquí station, Vollering is still dressed as the leader, with a 52-second margin over Longo Borghini, who is this Saturday can only be scratched. 4 bonus seconds for his third place at the Sigüenza finish line, and is already 1:14 behind his compatriot and Visma teammate Riejanne Markus.
The penultimate stage started to get lively after the first 32 kilometers, with a breakaway for Laura Tomasi (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi), Anna Kiesenhofer (Roland), Yuliia Biriukova (Human Powered Health), Veronica Ewers (EF Education-Cannondale), Angela Oro (Bepink-Bongioanni), Quinty Schoens (Volkerwessels) and Stina Kagevi (Coop-Repsol), outstanding at forty kilometers with a maximum advantage of 1 minute and 25 seconds in 59.
Thanks to the work in front of the peloton from teams like Visma-Lease a Bike or Movistar Team, the breakaway was neutralized at kilometer 73, even the Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer (Roland) did not give up and tried it alone in an attack later joined by Anya Louw (AG Insurance-Soudal), Laura Molenaar (Volkerwessels), Georgie Howe (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), Carolina Vargas (Eneicat-CM Team), Flora Perkins ( Fenix-Deceuninck), Cristina Tonetti ( Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi) and Silvia Zanardi (Human Powered Health) 49 kilometers from the finish line.
The adventure lasted nine kilometers. At the time of neutralization the selection has been made, and with the big favorites for the general classification in the lead and with Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) as the only cyclist from the top-10 left.
With 10 kilometers to go there were several escape attempts, but none succeeded, and the race was decided in the final stretch, in front of Sigüenza Castle, where Marianne Vos imposed her power and her stripes on the closing slope to sign his second. stage win.
The women’s Vuelta will end this Sunday with 89 kilometers from the Telefónica District of Madrid and will arrive at Valdesquí station, after passing Puerto de La Morcuera, both 1st category climbs.
Source: La Verdad
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