Women’s Tour: Final Stage

Jolien D’Hoore wins the final stage of the Women’s Tour ahead of Hannah Barnes, Niewiadoma wins the overall with Hannah Barnes third 

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Women’s Tour: Final Stage
(By Gordon Wiseman)

Having opened a 1m 42s lead by winning the opening stage of this year’s OVO Energy Women’s Tour – now arguably the premier event in the women’s WorldTour – Kasia Niewiadoma (WM3 Pro Cycling) rode beyond her 22 years to take the overall win as the race came to a dramatic finish around ten laps of a crowded 6.2km circuit in the heart of London this afternoon.

But with the 2017 edition of the SweetSpot organised race including some of the longest successive stages in the women’s calendar and with the amount of climbing – around 2400m in Saturday’s Chesterfield based stage, reckoned to be more climbing metres than in any singe stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile – it was never the case that Kasia had the race win sown up from that brilliant start.

Determined to show to all that her leader’s green jersey was going to stay firmly on her back, from the opening lap of the London stage the Polish National Champion made her intentions clear by showing her face in the front group that broke away in the first lap.

And with that group including Hannah Barnes (Canyon SRAM Racing) – seeking GC bonus seconds – and a quintet of Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team riders determined to ensure Christine Majerus was in pole position to pick up as many Eisberg Sprints Jersey points as possible, the chasing peloton had their work cut out to pull back their up to 30 second deficit.

But, after taking Kasia out of the equation, there were around 10 riders covered by just 30 seconds on GC and so they weren’t going to let the front group build up much more of a lead. Because that, the field re-grouped after the first Sprint of the afternoon, Barnes grabbing 3 precious GC seconds, Majerus adding equally important Eisberg points to her total.

Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (Cervélo-Bigla Pro Cycling) was particularly active in forcing the pace at the front of the race, herself chasing an improved GC position.

In the second Sprint Hannah Barnes and Majerus repeated their 1-2 from the first sprint and this was enough for the Luxemburg rider to win the Sprints completion and for Barnes to move up to equal 3rd on GC – with Team Sunweb’s Leah Kirchmann – with only the final sprint and possible further bonus seconds to come.

Boels-Dolmans were showing their colours to the fore in the closing laps but as the riders turned onto the finishing straight and the leg-grabbing final drag to the line to come, it was Jollen D’Hoore (Wiggle High5) who sprinted to the win from Barnes and Majerus.

D’Hoore’s win meant all five stages were won by different teams, Majerus made it a double trip to the winner’s podium to collect the Sprints and Points jerseys whilst Barnes moved into third place overall on GC and collected the final Best British Rider’s jersey – ahead of her younger sister Alice (Drops) who’d had the honour of wearing the jersey on two earlier days of the race.

For Kasia it was her first ever overall WorldTour stage win, adding to her already bulging selection of Young Rider jerseys in previous years and so only emphasising what a developing talent she is on the women’s racing scene.

“I’m super happy. That’s the only word that can describe my feelings’ Kasia explained after the race. ‘It wasn’t up to me to do anything in the leading group, I had my green jersey so I just had to ride. I knew I had to stay at the front all the time as at the back and in the middle it was super hectic. I’ve been waiting for a WorldTour victory for a long time, I was all the time second, third, second third so I’m super delighted when I could grab it.

“I’m super glad and super thankful for all the people who are around me and help me develop and every year make that next step ahead. For sure, without them I wouldn’t be here because they’ve put a lot of effort in to help me in my development. And so I’m super pleased that finally I can give them something back and say Thank You so much for letting me grow now that the results are coming.

Hannah Barnes: At the end of a week long battle with her younger sister Alice, and coming 18-months on from a prolonged injury lay-off with a broken leg, Hannah Barnes was best British rider and 3rd overall. “It’s been a really hard week. Unfortunately we lost Ale [Alena Amialiusik] to a really bad crash on Stage Three so we only had five riders and yesterday’s stage was really hard, but it came back together, which helped us. I knew I pretty much had to win both intermediate sprints and place well in the sprint to finish on the podium today and I managed to do that.

“I’ve been working really hard and this was one of the big targets of the year for me. I’m pleased I came into it strongly. The first day I didn’t feel great, it felt like it was going to be a really bad five days. But it helps that I can ride into a stage race and I think my training going into the race has paid off.”

Final Stage
1 D’HOORE Jolien WHT 01:28:23
2 BARNES Hannah LPR ST
3 MAJERUS Christine DLT ST
4 FOURNIER Roxane FDJ ST
5 ARCHIBALD Katie WNT ST
6 BASTIANELLI Marta ALE ST
7 BRONZINI Giorgia WHT ST
8 VAN DER BREGGEN Anna DLT ST
9 CECCHINI Elena LPR ST
10 ARZUFFI Alice LWK ST
11 MOBERG Emilie HPU ST
12 HOSKING Chloe ALE ST
13 INGELBRECHT Sarah LWD ST
14 FAHLIN Emilia WHT ST
15 VAN DIJK Ellen SUN ST
16 KIRCHMANN Leah SUN ST
17 KING Danielle CPC ST
18 ROY Sarah ORS ST
19 CROMWELL Tiffany LPR ST
20 MOOLMAN-PASIO Ashleigh CBT ST
21 *LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup CBT ST
22 *BARNES Alice DRP ST
23 *MANLY Alexandra ORS ST
24 JASINSKA Malgorzata CPC ST
25 DE VUYST Sofie LWD ST
26 ELVIN Gracie ORS ST
27 *MACKAIJ Floortje SUN ST
28 PENTON Sara TVW ST
29 HEINE Vita HPU ST
30 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa WHT ST
31 NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna WM3 ST
32 *KLEIN Lisa CBT ST
33 ENSING Janneke ALE ST
34 KOSTER Anouska WM3 ST
35 GRINCZER Natalie WNT ST
36 KASPER Romy ALE ST
37 KITCHEN Lauren WM3 ST
38 *PARKINSON Abby-Mae DRP ST
39 FRAPPORTI Simona HPU ST
40 GILLOW Shara FDJ ST
41 *KOREVAAR Jeanne WM3 ST
42 DUVAL Eugénie FDJ ST
43 RITTER Martina DRP ST
44 LICHTENBERG Claudia WHT ST
45 BRAND Lucinda SUN 12
46 GUDERZO Tatiana LWK 18
47 CROOKS Jenelle ORS ST
48 MAES Elise WNT ST
49 BRENNAUER Lisa LPR ST
50 NEYLAN Rachel ORS ST
51 KNETEMANN Roxanne FDJ ST
52 PIETERS Amy DLT ST
53 CORDON RAGOT Audrey WHT ST
54 ROE Eileen WNT ST
55 BLAAK Chantal DLT ST
56 DEIGNAN Elizabeth DLT 22
57 WORRACK Trixi LPR 24
58 BRAMMEIER Nikki DLT 01:16
59 CUCINOTTA Annalisa LWK 02:25
60 JACKSON Alison BPK 05:12
61 REIS Daniela LWD 05:15
62 SLIK Rozanne SUN ST
63 THORSEN Thea HPU ST
64 PAYTON Hannah DRP ST
65 RATTO Rossella CPC ST
66 VALSECCHI Silvia BPK ST
67 DURRELL Rebecca DRP ST
68 RIJKES Sarah LWD ST
69 PLICHTA Anna WM3 ST
70 PERCHTOLD Christina CBT ST
71 STULTIENS Sabrina SUN ST
72 POHL Stephanie CBT ST
73 SIGGAARD Christina TVW ST
74 GUTIERREZ RUIZ Sheyla CPC ST
75 BLOCH Shani TVW 09:00

 

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Final Overall
1 NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna WM3 16:34:53
2 MAJERUS Christine DLT 01:18
3 BARNES Hannah LPR 01:30
4 KIRCHMANN Leah SUN 01:36
5 VAN DIJK Ellen SUN 01:39
6 *BARNES Alice DRP 01:47
7 MOOLMAN-PASIO Ashleigh CBT 01:53
8 *LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup CBT 01:59
9 KING Danielle CPC 02:00
10 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa WHT 02:01
11 CROMWELL Tiffany LPR 02:03
12 VAN DER BREGGEN Anna DLT 02:07
13 *MACKAIJ Floortje SUN ST
14 *KLEIN Lisa CBT 02:08
15 DE VUYST Sofie LWD 02:11
16 HEINE Vita HPU ST
17 ENSING Janneke ALE ST
18 ARCHIBALD Katie WNT 02:15
19 GILLOW Shara FDJ ST
20 JASINSKA Malgorzata CPC 02:17
21 PIETERS Amy DLT 02:24
22 BRENNAUER Lisa LPR 02:35
23 GRINCZER Natalie WNT 02:42
24 BLAAK Chantal DLT 02:46
25 CORDON RAGOT Audrey WHT 02:47
26 *MANLY Alexandra ORS 03:09
27 LICHTENBERG Claudia WHT 03:43
28 ELVIN Gracie ORS 03:49
29 WORRACK Trixi LPR 03:53
30 CECCHINI Elena LPR 04:07
31 BRAND Lucinda SUN 04:16
32 ARZUFFI Alice LWK 06:44
33 RATTO Rossella CPC 07:35
34 BRONZINI Giorgia WHT 08:35
35 DUVAL Eugénie FDJ 08:48
36 BASTIANELLI Marta ALE 08:52
37 KOSTER Anouska WM3 08:54
38 KASPER Romy ALE 09:01
39 RITTER Martina DRP 09:07
40 CROOKS Jenelle ORS 10:29
41 KNETEMANN Roxanne FDJ 11:19
42 DEIGNAN Elizabeth DLT 12:37
43 *PARKINSON Abby-Mae DRP 13:35
44 BRAMMEIER Nikki DLT 13:36
45 ROY Sarah ORS 13:39
46 NEYLAN Rachel ORS 16:46
47 REIS Daniela LWD 18:35
48 JACKSON Alison BPK 19:23
49 SLIK Rozanne SUN 21:43
50 MOBERG Emilie HPU 24:09:00
51 PENTON Sara TVW 27:47:00
52 FRAPPORTI Simona HPU 27:51:00
53 D’HOORE Jolien WHT 29:56:00
54 HOSKING Chloe ALE 29:59:00
55 STULTIENS Sabrina SUN 31:13:00
56 PLICHTA Anna WM3 34:13:00
57 POHL Stephanie CBT 34:25:00
58 FOURNIER Roxane FDJ 34:37:00
59 KITCHEN Lauren WM3 34:45:00
60 *KOREVAAR Jeanne WM3 ST
61 ROE Eileen WNT 35:03:00
62 GUDERZO Tatiana LWK 35:12:00
63 MAES Elise WNT 35:46:00
64 DURRELL Rebecca DRP 37:26:00
65 PAYTON Hannah DRP 37:39:00
66 PERCHTOLD Christina CBT 37:43:00
67 SIGGAARD Christina TVW 39:52:00
68 RIJKES Sarah LWD 40:21:00
69 THORSEN Thea HPU 40:33:00
70 BLOCH Shani TVW 41:52:00
71 GUTIERREZ RUIZ Sheyla CPC 42:17:00
72 CUCINOTTA Annalisa LWK 43:23:00
73 INGELBRECHT Sarah LWD 45:53:00
74 FAHLIN Emilia WHT 49:37:00
75 VALSECCHI Silvia BPK 57:25:00

Best of British Overall
1 BARNES Hannah Canyon Sram Racing 16:36:23
2 *BARNES Alice Drops 17
3 KING Danielle Cylance Pro Cycling 30
4 ARCHIBALD Katie Team Wnt Pro Cycling 45
5 GRINCZER Natalie Team Wnt Pro Cycling 01:12
6 DEIGNAN Elizabeth Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam 11:07
7 *PARKINSON Abby-Mae Drops 12:05
8 BRAMMEIER Nikki Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam 12:06
9 ROE Eileen Team Wnt Pro Cycling 33:33
10 DURRELL Rebecca Drops 35:56
11 PAYTON Hannah Drops 36:09

Points
1 MAJERUS Christine DLT 36
2 BARNES Hannah LPR 35
3 BRONZINI Giorgia WHT 23
4 NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna WM3 21
5 VAN DIJK Ellen SUN 21
6 *BARNES Alice DRP 19

Mountains
1 CORDON RAGOT Audrey Wiggle High5 31
2 BRAND Lucinda Team Sunweb 25
3 NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna Wm3 Pro Cycling Team 24
4 GILLOW Shara Fdj Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope 17
5 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa Wiggle High5 16
6 JASINSKA Malgorzata Cylance Pro Cycling 16

Sprints
1 MAJERUS Christine DLT 10
2 D’HOORE Jolien WHT 8
3 BARNES Hannah LPR 6
4 KIRCHMANN Leah SUN 6
5 ARCHIBALD Katie WNT 6

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