Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) has gained the Itzulia Girls with a solo victory on the ultimate stage round Donostia. The 2022 and 2024 winner attacked on the Mendizorrotz climb and soloed to the end to win the stage, 55 seconds forward of Sarah van Dam (Ceratizit) and Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal)
Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) was the final rider to be dropped by Vollering however was caught on the run-in to Donostia, and on the ultimate kilometre, Van Dam and Ghekiere attacked in a bid for the GC podium. Van Dam beat Ghekiere within the dash for second and took third place general, whereas Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime) held on to second place in GC.
“I wanted to get a while on Mischa, so I couldn’t wait. And when there’s a climb, I understand how robust I’m. Though I crashed yesterday, so I had a whole lot of muscle ache and stiff physique, however I’ve achieved worse, with a damaged again within the Tour de France, so I do know I can do it and simply really want to belief myself and full-gas go for it,” stated Vollering after her solo arrival.
It was Vollering’s seventh Itzulia stage victory in 4 editions, however the first together with her new workforce FDJ-Suez, and he or she thanked her teammates for his or her help.
“My workforce was so robust right now. Amber [Kraak] was driving in entrance the entire day, and Léa [Curinier] did a extremely, actually robust pull on the primary a part of the climb to make it as laborious as potential from the underside, Évita [Muzic], good job to comply with the second group, so it was good teamwork right now,” she stated.
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