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EsCiclismo.com · Road Competition · 09/26/2020
The Dutch cyclist Anna van der Breggen, who just a few days ago won the title of World Time Trial Champion, did the same with the online title by winning this Saturday in a test held on a 143-kilometer track starting and arrival in the Italian town of Imola.
With a time of 4 hours, 9 minutes and 57 seconds, Van der Breggen prevailed in the arrival at Imola ahead of the also Dutch Annemiek van Vleuten and the Italian Elisa Longo Borghini, silver and bronze completing the pdium.
Van der Breggen left alone 41.5 kilometers from the end to, without looking back, distance himself from the chasing group and appear alone at the finish line with 1 minute and 20 seconds to spare.
Anna van der Breggen, who already achieved the online title in 2018 at the Innsbruck World Cup, succeeded the Dutch Annemiek van Vleuten, winner of the last edition, in the palm of the event.
Van Vleuten did quite a bit, achieving silver in a tight sprint with a Longo Borghini that almost closed it towards the fences after reaching the freshly operated race of the grimace that occurred when he fell a week ago in the Giro Rosa.
Van der Breggen’s impressive career, gold in 2018 and silver in 2015 and 2019, could not be countered by any rival, among which the main one was the current champion Annemiek van Vleuten, who arrived with doubts and almost to the limit due to her operation.
The runner defending the rainbow tried to be with the winner in the key attack at 42 km. goal, but had to stay in a chasing quartet that was hunted by the squad.
But he did not lose heart and helped Longo Borghini to leave the chasing group on the last climb of the day, the Cima Galisterna, with the summit 10 kilometers from the finish line. In the first of the climbs, Mazzolano, although in the penultimate of the five laps of 28.8 kilometers of which the route consisted, it was when Van der Breggen unleashed his attack.
The two walls are similar, with about 2.7 kilometers more than the 6 percent average slope and sections of up to 14 percent, and they make the race very difficult.
Initial skirmishes and a nine-runner getaway animated the first 90 kilometers. In the escape, which did not exceed two and a half minutes, the Spanish Mavi Garca and the Dutch Amy Pieters were embedded. Which gave some reassurance to the very favorite orange squad, which seemed to disengage, provoking the reaction of Australia and New Zealand.
But it was either part of the plan or it was bait that the oceans fell on. Since, just entering the penultimate of the five laps of the circuit, Van der Breggen unleashed his attack in Mazzolano, she was left alone in Cima Galisterna
Behind her, Van Vleuten, Longo, the British Elizabeth Deignan and the Danish Cecilie Utrupp Ludwig formed a quartet that not only could not follow her but were hunted by the main group. From which the Dutch and the Italian jumped to distribute silver and bronze.
He Road Cycling World Championship conclude this Sunday with the dispute of the men’s lite test, on a very tough route of 258.2 kilometers and some 5,000 meters of positive unevenness in which the Belgian Wout van Aert and the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar start as the main favorites.
Classifications [Clasificaciones completas]
Stage classification:
1. Anna van der Breggen (NED) – 4:09:57
2. Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) at 1:20
3. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA) at 1:20
Marianne Vos (NED) at 2:01
5. Liane Lippert (GER) at 2:01
6. Elizabeth Deignan (GBR) at 2:01 am
7. Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL) at 2:01
8. Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN) at 2:41 am
9. Lisa Brennauer (GER) at 3:08
10. Marlen Reusser (SUI) at 3:08
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