Petr Vakoč (Canyon Isadore) and Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) gained elite titles on the three-day X Santa Vall gravel stage race on Sunday and have become the primary leaders of the season-long Gravel Earth Collection.
The distinctive occasion in Girona, Spain included a hilly 6.2km particular person time trial, a looped stage of 80km with two timed segments and a 120km climbing stage with 1,540 metres of elevation achieve to resolve the GC.
Moolman Pasio, who used the occasion as preparation for Strade Bianche, gained the opening 6.2km uphill prologue in her first gravel race and accomplished the following two levels on the rostrum to safe the GC. The USA’s Morgan Aguirre, who gained stage 1, used a fourth-place end on the ultimate day to safe second general, 49 seconds again. Kara Sofie Skovgård Hansen of Denmark was third general.
Within the males’s elite division, Vakoč additionally used his ITT victory over Joseph Laverick to fit into the GC lead on the opening day and held on for the GC victory with a slim 17-second benefit over Dutchman Hans Becking, who gained stage 1. Spanish rider David Lozano (Novo Nordisk) completed third general.
The three days of racing by no means noticed massive margins develop as soon as the GC was set on Friday. The lads’s discipline included Nathan Haas of Australia, US riders Payson McElveen and Chad Haga, Italian Daniel Oss, Belgian Lawrence Naesen and Dutch rider Jasper Ockeloen, whereas the ladies’s discipline contained Britons Danni Schrosbree and Annabel Fisher in addition to USA’s Emily Newsom and Amity Rockwell.
On Sunday it regarded like Moolman Pasio had created sufficient of a niche on the climbs for her second stage win, however the South African Girls’s WorldTour rider was caught after the lengthy, technical descent by a bunch of 5 ladies for the ultimate run-in of the 115km queen stage. Geerike Schreurs of the Netherlands made a late cross within the last 10km and held on for the dash win. Moolman Pasio sprinted one second forward of Skovgård Hansen and Aguirre to seal the GC.
“In a nail-biting end, I managed to safe 2nd place on the stage and clinch the general win in my first gravel occasion. The three-day occasion was nice preparation for my upcoming race Strade Bianche,” Moolman Pasio posted to her Instagram account. “The stability between competitors and encouragement among the many riders was actually inspiring, and I can’t wait to return subsequent yr.”
Now in its second yr, the Gravel Earth Collection consists of 20 occasions throughout 13 nations, and gives a brand new €12,500 complete prize purse, cut up equally among the many high 10 in male, feminine and non-binary divisions. The subsequent spherical is March 10 in Iten, Kenya for the 120km Safari Gravel.
Outcomes
| Pos. | Rider Title (Nation) Group | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) | 6:01:45 |
| 2 | Morgan Aguirre (Sufficient Biking) | 0:00:49 |
| 3 | Klara Sofie Skovgård Hansen (PAS Biking) | 0:01:24 |
| 4 | Geerike Schreurs (Specialised-SD Worx) | 0:01:36 |
| 5 | Karoline Migon (PAS Racing) | 0:09:41 |
| 6 | Emily Newsom (PAS Racing) | 0:13:09 |
| 7 | Claudia Galicia Cotrina (Groove Gravel) | 0:14:21 |
| 8 | Svenja Betz (Reverb Biking) | 0:14:31 |
| 9 | Emma Porter (Reverb Biking) | 0:15:18 |
| 10 | Gabby Traxler | 0:16:32 |
| Pos. | Rider Title (Nation) Group | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petr Vakoč (Canyon Isadore) | 5:08:15 |
| 2 | Hans Becking (buff Megamo MTB) | 0:00:17 |
| 3 | David Lozano (Novo-Nordisk) | 0:00:36 |
| 4 | Chad Haga | 0:01:08 |
| 5 | Sascha Weber | 0:01:37 |
| 6 | Jasper Ockeloen (Canyon-SRAM-Schwalbe-Sockeloen) | 0:02:27 |
| 7 | Daniel Oss | 0:02:37 |
| 8 | Asbjorn Hellemose (Swatt Membership) | 0:02:40 |
| 9 | Sepp Rombouts (PAS Racing) | 0:02:41 |
| 10 | Luis Neff (Rose Racing Circle) | 0:03:31 |
