Marianne Vos and Niki Terpstra declare Swedish spherical of Gravel World Sequence

Dutch riders Marianne Vos and Niki Terpstra took out the wins on the newest spherical of the UCI Gravel World Sequence spherical in Sweden, taking victory on the Gravel Grit ‘n Grind in Halmstad which delivered the fourteenth spherical of sixteen throughout the sequence.

The 133km race delivered 1210 metres of vertical elevation because it ran via the woods and lakes round Halmstad, beginning with the climbs early – actually lower than 5 kilometres into the race.

Within the ladies’s race it got here right down to retired mountain biker Annika Langvad (Specialised Racing XC) and Vos, who has simply completed a heavy street block that has taken her via from the Giro d’Italia Donne firstly of July to the Tour de France Femmes and the Highway World Championships.

The gravel, nevertheless, is the place she received to style victory with the completed multi-discipline rider crossing the road with a four-second benefit to Langvad. It was a shift up the Gravel World Sequence outcomes sheet for Vos this 12 months, as when she dipped in mid-July she took fourth on the Gravel One Fifty within the Netherlands although that consequence was delivered proper between the distinguished Italian and French stage races, which might not doubt have remained her focus.