Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) gave her gravel world championships jersey its first race outing final weekend at 3RIDES Aachen, taking it proper to the highest step of the ladies’s podium on the German spherical of the UCI Gravel World Collection.
Vos gained the 122km race, which ran on a 61km loop that includes 65% gravel and with 790m of elevation acquire on every circuit, crossing the road after three hours, 37 minutes and ten seconds with a spot of two:25 to a chasing group of three.
The rider, who gained the rainbow jersey in October, had already taken off from her rivals by the second-half of the primary lap. Behind Larissa Hartog (ZZPR.nl Orange Infants) sprinted to second forward of Romy Kasper (Human Powered Well being) whereas Irina Lützelschwab (Workforce Bulls Schweiz) was fourth.
Within the males’s race a number one group of seven charged towards the end, with Niels Vandeputte (Alpecin-Deceuninck) taking the victory after having simply stepped into the self-discipline for the primary time at Marly Gravel Race simply weeks in the past. The 24-year-old sprinted to the road forward of Jonas Koch (Crimson Bull-Bora Hansgrohe) and Felix Stehli (Workforce Vorarlberg).
The racing on Saturday began with a bathe however then the climate cleared as the sphere of round 1,600 raced by way of the Eifel area, nevertheless situations took a flip for the more severe on Sunday, ensuing within the cancellation of the next 3RIDES Gran Fondo for security causes.
The UCI Gravel World Collection occasion in Germany was the ultimate spherical of the six UCI Gravel World Championships qualifying rounds that happened by way of Could and the calendar is filled with one other six occasions once more by way of June.
