Noemi Rüegg took the primary win for the newly fashioned Continental group EF Schooling-Cannondale on the Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi, the primary occasion of the Problem Mallorca Femenina. The Swiss rider was quickest to the road, beating Arlenis Sierra (Movistar) and Chiara Consonni (UAE Staff ADQ) in Ses Salines.
The groups that haven’t travelled to the southern hemisphere for the Tour Down Underneath started their highway racing seasons on the new Problem Mallorca Femenina, which gives three one-day races held from Jan 20-22.
The first one-day race of three races was 127km from Felanitx to Colònia de Sant Jordi. The race provided three intermediate sprints and two class 4 ascents earlier than a drop into the end in Colònia de Sant Jordi.
The sector was collectively for the primary dash in Ses Salines, gained by Rüegg, who set the tone for the day’s race.
Rotem Gafinovitz (Hess Biking) was the primary to launch a solo assault, however her efforts got here to an finish forward of the primary of two ascents the place Alice Palazzi (High Women Fassa Bortolo) captured the complete factors excessive.
A breakaway fashioned mid-race with Giorgia Vettorello (Roland) and Laura Asencio (Ceratizit-WNT) surging off the entrance of the sector. Vettorello secured the intermediate dash factors in Felanitx.
The transfer was short-lived, and Vettorello rejoined the sector forward of the 1.8km second climb. Though Asencio held on just a little longer and took full factors excessive, she, too, was reeled in on the descent with 34km to go.
Inside 10km, riders from Proximus-Cyclis and Maxx-Photo voltaic Rose, respectively, attacked, however it was Movistar’s lead-out for Sierra that held the sector collectively within the closing kilometres.
There was no denying a bunch dash, and it was who Rüegg powered over the road forward of Sierra and Consonni to take a season-opening victory.
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