Marta Romeu (Laboral Kutxa Fundación Euskadi) gained stage 3 at Vuelta Ciclista Andalucía Ruta del Sol.
The Spanish rider made a late-race assault after which held on to safe a solo win by a slim one-second margin forward of general race chief Tamara Dronova-Balabolina (Israel Premier Tech Roland) and 4 seconds forward of Katrine Aalerud (Movistar Workforce) on the uphill end in Álora.
Dronova-Balabolina, who gained the primary two levels, maintained her lead within the general classification heading into the penultimate stage 4 from Pizarra to Mijas. She is now 37 seconds forward of Aalerud and 46 seconds forward of Mie Bjørndal Ottestad (Uno-X Professional Biking Workforce).
The way it unfolded
The third stage of the Vuelta Ciclista Andalucía Ruta Del Sol was a 134km race from Nerja to Álora.
It was one other hilly route that included three most important climbs over the Alto de Colmenar (18km at 2.8% with the final 6.1km at 5%), Alto de Joya (3.6km at 5%) and Alto de Los Nogales (2.9km at 6.8%), adopted by an extended descent into Álora the place there was a brief uphill rise to the end line.
Jessenia Meneses (Colombia Pacto Por El Deporte-GW Shimano) took full factors excessive of the primary climb, Alto de Colmenar, forward of Elizabeth Stannard (Israel Premier Tech Roland) and teammate Dronova-Balabolina. Meneses’ efforts pushed her up into the lead of the mountains classification.
A break up within the peloton resulted in a entrance group gaining roughly 30 seconds on the chasing second group because the race entered 50km to go.
Over the second ascent, Alto de Joya, Barbara Malcotti (Human Powered Well being) crested the highest first taking the mountain factors, however Stannard and Meneses have been shut behind, hoovering up the remaining factors.
Alto de los Nogales marked the ultimate climb of the day, and Marta Romeu (Laboral Kutxa Fundación Euskadi) broke away and gained practically a minute in pursuit of the stage win.
Romeu took the mountain factors excessive of Nogales, however that had no impact on Meneses’ mountain classification lead. Because the peloton crested a minute later, Meneses took second-place factors, which was sufficient to safe herself the mountains classification jersey heading into stage 4.
Romeu continued her solo efforts on the lengthy descent towards Álora, however her hole was slashed to only 20 seconds with 10km to go.
The Spaniard held sturdy and nonetheless had 20 seconds in hand as she entered the ultimate 4 kilometres. In a single final effort on the quick climb to the end, she narrowly held on for the stage win, ending a mere second forward of Dronova-Balabolina.
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