Tour of Britain Women: Lotte Kopecky takes back-to-back wins on stage 2 forward of Henderson

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) doubled up on the Tour of Britain Women, profitable stage 2 in a dash of two riders in opposition to Anna Henderson (Great Britain). Kopecky’s teammate Lorena Wiebes received the dash of a diminished peloton for third place.

On Horseshoe Pass, Kopecky attacked 1km from the highest and Henderson was the one rider capable of maintain the GC chief’s wheel. They constructed a 40-second hole on the rolling terrain after the climb, and though Liv-AlUla-Jayco and DSM-Firmenich PostNL organised the chase within the group behind, the 2 leaders got here onto the ending straight with 20 seconds in hand.

Henderson sat on Kopecky’s wheel from the flamme rouge however had no reply to the World Champion’s dash ultimately.

Kopecky defends the inexperienced chief’s jersey and is now 17 seconds forward of Henderson and 34 seconds forward of Letizia Paternoster (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) going into stage 3.

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