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Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) won her third Alfredo Binda Trophy in four years, taking the victory in front of Blanda Vas (SD World-Protime) and Cat Ferguson (Movistar) after a group of four who had attacked on the climb of Orino was captured on the final kilometer.
Six knights had been clear at the top of the final climb but had been captured downhill again. Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) then made another move with 4 km to go, and when Elisa Longo Borghini (team of the United Arab Emirates), Demi Vollering (Fdj-Suez) and Monica Trinca Colonel (Liv-Alula-Jayco) have caught themselves, a high-speed pursuit.
The four cyclists still had a small gap to the flamme rouge but were captured in the corner that brought in the end straight and balm that emerged as the strongest of the sprint.
“I am speechless. It was one of the most difficult races ever for me, the last two laps were crazy,” said Balsamo after the race.
“My teammates have done an excellent job and I am very happy. It is always so nice to win in Italy and in this race, so it’s a perfect day,” said the three -time winner after the race.
“I really like this race, and now I know every single meter of the race. Today, many friends and all my family were there, they pushed me into the last climb, every ten there was someone and I’m so happy.”
How it developed
The Peloton remained together for the first third of the 152 kilometer race until a group of 14 cyclists used the climb climb to escape the first of the six laps on the final circuit.
With Nina Buijsman, Eglantine Rayer (both FDJ-Suez), Francesca Barale (picnic-postnl), snow Bradbury, Antonia Niedermaier (both Canyon-Sram Zondacripto), Fem Van Emel (Visma-Leas Bike), Ella Wylie (Liv-Jayco), (Lidl-Trek), Eleonora Gasparrini (team of the United Arab Emirates ADQ), Femke Gerritse (SD World-Protime), Sara Casasola (Fenix-Deceuninck), Mareille Meijering (Movistar) and Katrine Aalerud (one-X mobility), most of the large teams were represented at the front line and the break was a break and the break increased its advantages for 125) and the bomb of AG Haugac-Sassactut. Up the chase.
With three laps or 52.8 km from the end, the gap had dropped to 30 seconds and the group was enveloped before the climb of Oino. Dominika Włodarczyk (Team of the United Arab Emirates ADQ) and Magdeleine Vallies Mill (EF Education-Otty) started the climb with an advantage of 13 seconds, but only Włodarczyk could have been going on on the top of Vollering, Longo Borghini, Van der Bregen and Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trung).
Włodarczyk was captured by the descent in which Van der Bregen used his skills of handling of bicycles to eliminate a gap, and the 34 -year -old was 18 seconds before when he crossed the finish line to start the final lap while Vollering was driving the chase.
The team of the United Arab Emirates arrived in the front in the flat part of the route, creating the attack by Longo Borghini at the climb of Casalzuigno. Together with Marianne Vos (Vistma-Leaase in Bike), the Italian champion made a pact in Van der Bregen and left her behind. Vollering has come back, creating the climb with Longo Borghini on the wheel first.
After the Descent, Vos, Pieterse, Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal), Mavi García, and Silke Smulders (Both Liv-Alula-Jayco) Had Closed the Gap, and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Vistma-Leasa a bike) Bridged with 12km to Go to Form A Lead Group of Nine Riders-But This ” Group WUULDN’T WORK TOGETHER, AND THE PELOTON WAS BACK A KILOMETER LATER, JUST BEFORE The beginning of the climb to Oino.
Avvita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) launched an attack on the lower slopes but was unable to escape. Longo Borghini then made his move on the steep part of the climb, 8 km from the line, and only Pieterse was able to follow, with Marta Cavalli (picnic-postnl), Vos and Volling that had to dig in depth to stay in touch.
In the last part of the climb, Vollering launched another attack beyond Longo Borghini and Pieterse who could not follow while the Courts and Włodarczyk struck themselves from behind while they went downhill.
This group of six had a small advantage over the reduced Peloton in which they were chasing SD World-Protime and Liv-alula-jayco. Just before the group contacted, Pieterse made his last move to get a gap, and Longo Borghini, Vollering and Trinca Colonel returned to the Dutch wheel of 22 years at 3 km.
The run-in at the finish was a high-speed pursuit in which Gerritse and Van der Bregen closed slowly but certainly the gap, capturing the front group in the final corner of the race.
Ferguson launched his sprint leaving the corner and soon passed Vollering, but Balsamo quickly approached the left side of the road and won the sprint. Vas came out of Ferguson’s briefstream on the last 50 meters to take second place.
Results
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