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Demi Vollering wins stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Marianne Vos wears the red leader’s jersey ahead of stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
A general view of the peloton passing through a landscape during stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
A general view of the peloton passing through a landscape toward the mountains during stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Overall leader Marianne Vos during stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Mischa Bredewold attacks on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
A general view of the peloton on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
A general view of the peloton on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Spanish Champion Mavi Garcia on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Teniel Campbell leads the peloton on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Grace Brown leads the field on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
The peloton on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Demi Vollering on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Blanka Vas on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Karlijn Swinkels late-race attack into the final climb on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Stage 5 winner Demi Vollering at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Yara Kastelijn finishes second place ahead of Elisa Longo Borghini on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Demi Vollering solos to victory on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Yara Kastelijn and Elisa Longo Borghini finish second and third on stage 5 at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Demi Vollering and her SD Worx-Protime teammates celebrate stage 5 victory at La Vuelta Femenina (Image credit: Getty Images)
Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) won stage 5 of La Vuelta Femenina on the Fuerte Rapitán finishing climb, setting the pace from 2.1km to go and dropping riders one by one.
On the final kilometre, Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) were the last to give in, and Vollering powered ahead to win the stage by 28 seconds, with Kastelijn beating Longo Borghini to second place.
Vollering is also the new overall leader, with a 31-second lead on Longo Borghini.
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