Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands) followed of a powerful Dutch lead-out, surfed the wheels to perfection and then surged away to win the elite women’s road race title at the UEC Road European Championships in Limburg, Belgium.
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Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands) followed of a powerful Dutch lead-out, surfed the wheels to perfection and then surged away to win the elite women’s road race title at the UEC Road European Championships in Limburg, Belgium.
The Dutch team led the field into the final flat kilometres of the 162km race from Heusden-Zolder to Hasselt, at speeds reaching more than 53km/h.
Although France and Italy challenged the Netherlands with their own lead-outs, Wiebes stayed cool, jumped on the Italian train and then launched the fastest sprint to the line.
She beat runner-up Elisa Balsamo (Italy), third-placed Daria Pikulik (Poland) and fourth-place Clara Copponi (France) by several bike lengths.
Wiebes’ victory marks the sixth consecutive win for the Netherlands in the elite women’s EUC road race, and the eighth in the last nine years, only beaten by Italy’s Marta Bastianelli the 2018 edition.
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