Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) continued her dominance on the Baloise Ladies Tour and received the person time trial on stage 3b Saturday night. Marion Norbert Riberolle (Fenix-Deceuninck) completed second by 15 seconds and Thalita De Jong (Lotto Dstny Ladies) was one other 2 seconds again in third.
Wiebes, who took the street race victory earlier in a break up day of competitions, was the one rider to cease the clock beneath the 15-minute mark on the 11km course in Zwevegem, setting a time of 14:53.
A complete of 106 riders took the road for the time trial, with 16 riders not finishing the morning street race, a lot of them caught in or behind a big crash within the opening 12km.
The GC chief carried a six-second lead over Charlotte Kool (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), and one other 15 seconds over Kool’s teammate Pfeiffer Georgi, after the stage 3a street race. Kool’s time was 51 seconds slower, and she or he dropped 9 locations to fall out of the highest 10. Georgi completed 23 seconds off the profitable tempo and moved into second general, although she is now 38 seconds again.
The large mover of the day was De Jong, who moved to 3rd general along with her podium end within the ITT, now 39 seconds behind Wiebes.
Wiebes has received 4 of the 5 phases to this point on this yr’s Baloise Ladies Tour. The UCI 2.1 stage race concludes Sunday with seven laps of a 16.5km flat circuit round Deinze, a complete of 116.9km.
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