Alessandra Keller (Thomus Maxon) took victory within the opening spherical brief monitor race Nové Město na Moravě, beating Pauline Ferrand Prevot in a decent ultimate chase.
The seven-lap race within the Czech Republic was full of motion in its brief however technical route, and pre-race favorite Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) animated the early a part of the race with a crash on the second lap.
The younger Dutch rider fortunately was not significantly harm and located her method again to the entrance of the group with a couple of laps.
In the penultimate lap, Alessandra Keller reduce a dominant kind main the pack and attacked from the entrance – setting her quickest lap within the course of.
She managed to kind a considerable hole earlier than the response got here, with Ferrand Prevaud main a small chase group into the ultimate lap. She bridged again towards Keller but it surely wasn’t sufficient to catch the chief, and Ferrand Prevot settled for second as Hayley Batten (Specialized Factory Racing) rounded off the rostrum.
Puck Pieterse nonetheless managed to make her method again to fifth place total.
“It’s superb to win right here,” Keller stated after the race end. “I had my boyfriend on the monitor and so they stated I’m wanting fairly sturdy after which two laps to go I ought to assault so yeah. In the downhill, I had that little hole after which I simply went all in. Everything works out completely.
“Oh, however even it was very laborious within the final lap, however yeah, that makes every little thing tremendous candy.”
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