Poland’s Marta Lach (SD Worx-Protime) was awarded the win in an ultra-close picture end within the Pageant Elsy Jacobs à Garnich, beating Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Uno-X Mobility) to the road by millimetres, , whereas Sarah Van Dam (Ceratizit Professional Biking) completed third on the day.
Pageant Elsy Jacobs has moved from a ProSeries stage race final held in 2023 to a double one-day race format for 2024 and 2025. This yr, the 2 days of racing started with the 112km hilly route in Garnich on Saturday.
The race included 4 bigger circuits with a brief climb via Garnich on every lap, adopted by 4 shorter native circuits with brief climbs at Rebierg and Garnich and a descent to the end on the ultimate lap.
A lowered subject entered the ultimate 30km of the race, however an assault from Matilde Vitillo (Liv AlUla Jayco Girls’s Continental) pressured the peloton to react, and though she was reeled in over the circuit’s climb, it pressured important splits among the many subject.
With simply two laps to go the lowered entrance group inlcuded Lach, Confalonieri and Van Dam together with Margot Vanpachtenbeke (VolkerWessels Professional Biking Crew), Eva van Agt, Margaux Vigié and Rosita Reijnhout (each Visma-Lease a Bike), Noa Jansen (Liv AlUla Jayco Girls’s Continental), Natalie Quinn (Crew USA), Nadia Quagliotto (Cofidis), Steffi Häberlin (SD Worx-Protime), Tess Moerman (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal U23), Lauren Dickson (Handsling Alba Improvement), Ségolène Thomas (St Michel-Desire Residence-Auber 93) and Petra Zsanko (Ceratizit Professional Biking).
SD Worx-Protime teammates Häberlin and Lach opened a small hole on the choice, however it was too harmful to allow them to acquire time, and so they had been again collectively for the final lap.
Assaults continued throughout the ultimate 10km with 5 riders splitting off the entrance to contest the dash, with Lach taking the day’s victory forward of Confalonieri, Van Dam, and Vanpachtenbeke in fourth and Van Agt in fifth place, 4 seconds forward of the chase group dash gained by Jansen.
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