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Cédrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit-WNT) powered to a solo victory in a rain-soaked fourth version of the Tre Valli Varesine girls’s race, persevering with her gorgeous 2024 season with a fifth win.
The 23-year-old French rider bought away on the ultimate lap of the Varese circuit with Silvia Persico (UAE ADQ), earlier than dropping her on the ultimate ascent up Salita dei Ronchi with 4 kilometres to go. Kerbaol then held off the chase from Liane Lippert (Movistar) and Persico.
It was a brutal day of racing in Northern Italy as adversarial climate circumstances sparked two shortenings of the unique 136.3km route. The rain-soaked and fragmented peloton got here house in small teams behind Kerbaol.
Having gained a stage of the Tour de France Femmes due to her professional downhill and time-trialling skills earlier within the season, Kerbaol confirmed off the identical expertise as she navigated the slippery roads, earlier than launching to an eighth profession win.
Persico sat on defending champion Lippert’s wheel after the German bridged throughout to her out of the group behind and tried to drag again Kerbaol unsuccessfully, earlier than outsprinting her to second place 20 seconds after the Frenchwoman crossed the road.
How it unfolded
The motion kicked off within the fourth Tre Valli Varesine girls’s race even earlier than the flag dropped, with an early circuit in Busto Arsizio and two of the 15.8km closing circuit laps to be eliminated as a result of heavy rain.
Despite the brutal circumstances, a number of strikes tried to get away on the moist roads, the strongest of which included defending champion Lippert. The day’s most important breakaway shaped with 75 km to go, with Mareille Meijering (Movistar), Flora Perkins (Fenix-Deceuninck), Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health), Francesca Barale (DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Persico, Joscelin Lowden (Uno-X Mobility) and Monica Trinca Colonel (Bepink-Bongioanni) going clear.
As one other lap was taken out of the racing within the worsening circumstances, the break’s hole prolonged out previous the minute mark 35 km from the end, with Urška Žigart (Liv AlUla Jayco) doing a lot of the pulling within the closely diminished chase group.
Meijering was the primary rider within the break to chunk within the closing two laps, attacking her fellow escapees, nevertheless, she shortly knocked off her effort and started sitting on the again. This appeared like an instruction as 10km later, the break had been caught and Lippert was considered one of a number of riders to bridge the hole.
On the climb as much as Varese earlier than the ultimate lap, extra assaults adopted, first by means of French champion Juliette Labous (DSM-Firmenich PostNL). Then former junior world champion Julie Bego (Cofidis) attacked alone on the important thing Montello (2 km at 5.2%) climb.
Labous and Lippert joined her however this transfer quickly light as Persico countered excessive with Kerbaol inside the ultimate 10km. The hesitation started to hinder the group behind who shortly discovered themselves 13 seconds down.
Kerbaol then kicked away from Persico because the race hit the ultimate ascent of the Salita dei Ronchi (1.9 km at 5.3%), simply as Lippert took it upon herself to bridge the hole solo realizing the win was disappearing up the street.
The Frenchwoman eked out her lead on the trip as much as Varese, ultimately crossing the road together with her arms aloft 20 seconds forward of Persico and Lippert who rounded out the rostrum positions.
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