Unbeatable day in the memory of high -air cycling. The return to female Spain landed in Aragon this Tuesday with a third stage that linked Barbastro and Huesca. It was the room of the seven rounds of the round and the first of the two that will run through Aragonese territory -Borja and Pedrola will perform tomorrow as exit and arrival points. A vibrant day from beginning to end, with fights, leaks, multiple falls and A surprising Sprint that ended up crowning the Dutch Femke Gerritse, winner of the stage of a flat nature and 132.4 kilometers.
It meant the consecration in the international cycling of the broker of the SD world-Protime team, which signed in this way his first victory in a large turn-he had achieved his first two professional victories in classics. He has also done it leaving behind nothing more and nothing less than the Olympic champion and three times world champion Marianne Vos (Visma Lease to Bike), one of the great favorites to take this return to Spain. The Linda Zanetti (one-x mobility) completed the podium of the stage.
Around 13.40 the fourth round of the round began in Barbastro. Hundreds of spectators took to the streets to see the squad closely, with a neutralized exit from the station avenue where the largest number of audiences and also the local authorities were agglutinated. 142 cyclists took the exit and, at three kilometers, in addition to a fall in the streets of the town, the first movements were already seen in the race. The Spanish Marina Garau and Ariana Gilabert, along with the Dutch Maaike Coljé, the French Marion Borras and the Norwegian Magdalene Lind were the first to look for a leak that was difficult because of the important wind gusts.
The escapes, neutralized at 100 kilometers
In spite an income of three minutes and 15 seconds at 40 kilometers. About 35 kilometers later, the Swedish Emilia Fahlin was one of the worst stops in a multiple fall on the road. The plain section ended and began, as they pass through the town of Bierge, a series of ups and downs that were going to harm the group of escapes. The squad won more and more time and He managed to hunt the head at kilometer 99 of stagealready at the height of Tramaced.
The race entered the last 30 kilometers. The best was left -although with more than one fall to arrive yet. Femke Gerritse, who had started the stage in second position in the general, was provisional leader after leading the sprint located 30.8 kilometers from the finish line. This forced Marianne Vos to take risks and the leader at the beginning Letizia Paternoster. The wind was ‘in crescendo’ and the squad crossed moments of confusion that led to the formation of smaller groups. Confusion that also arrived with another fall, this time from the Spanish Ane Santesteban 20 kilometers from finish.
Gerritse’s companions are paving the way to finish
The first to get to the streets of Huesca were a group of about 20 runners. On the arrival there was one more fall in the rear of the race that did not affect the front group where the favorites were. The Dutch Femke Gerritse knew how to take advantage of the good work done in the last two kilometers by her teammates Anna Van Der Breggen and Mischa Bredwold. In this way he managed to make a foothold in the final stretch of 300 meters of the Paseo Ramón y Cajal and be the fastest of the day ahead of you and the Switzerland Linda Zanetti.
In the general, You maintain the second place and paternal is relegated from the leadership until third position, both twelve seconds of the leader Gerritsewhose award is not minor: the red mallot will wear this Wednesday in the half -mountain test that will link the Zaragoza localities of Pedrola and Borja. A day of 111.6 kilometers marked in the calendar of the favorites in the general, which will seek to obtain income especially in the ports of the ascent to Moncayo and the Bust.
