Lotte Kopecky (Workforce SD Worx) blasted up the ultimate 500 metres to the Citadel of Diest ultimate and received Dwars door het Hageland for elite girls on Saturday. Christina Schweinberger (Fenix-Deceuninck) trailed on the stiff cobbled climb with double-digit gradients for second, whereas Pfeiffer Georgi (Workforce DSM) took third.
Lieke Nooijen (Parkhotel Valkenburg) held on for fourth place, 9 seconds behind Kopecky, with the remainder of the peloton strung out behind to conclude the 128km one-day race. Of the 130 starters, 59 didn’t end.
Kopecky was the favorite for the third version of the elite girls’s race held from Aarschot to Diest, with seven hills and 11 sectors of cobblestones. Midway by way of the dry and dusty contest, a bunch of about 36 riders remained collectively on the entrance.
Because the bunch neared the ultimate circuit, and the scale was now underneath 20 riders, final yr’s runner-up Schweinberger tried to push the tempo. As soon as throughout the second move of the Allerheiligenberg with underneath 20km to go, the Fenix-Deceuninck rider and Georgia have been joined by Kopecky in addition to Barbara Guarischi (Workforce SD Worx), Marta Bastianelli (UAE Workforce ADQ) and two extra Fenix riders, Julie de Wilde and Aniek van Alphen.
The Fenix duo of De Wilde and Van Alphen tried to ship Schweinberger to the victory earlier than the Grasbos climb 6km from the end, however Kopecky proved too robust on the ultimate climb.
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