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Chloé Dygert (Canyon-SRAM) won stage 2 of the RideLondon Classique in the sprint of a small group ahead of Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) and Soraya Paladin (Canyon-SRAM).
A front group of about 25 riders formed inside 30km to go, and Maike van der Duin (Canyon-SRAM) attacked from this group 12km from the line. She had an advantage of up to 38 seconds but was caught on the short but steep climb up Maldon High Street on the final kilometre.
Stage 1 winner and overnight leader Charlotte Kool (Team DSM) and Clara Copponi (FDJ-SUEZ) had gone down in a crash just before the flamme rouge. Paladin took the lead on the climb but let her teammate Dygert come past before the final corner, and Dygert held off Deignan to the line to win.
Despite her crash, Kool finished the stage and maintained her overall race lead now five seconds ahead of Deignan and 10 seconds ahead of Dygert.
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