Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx-Protime) captured the general title on the 2024 Baloise Ladies Tour by profitable one other bunch dash, this time the finale on stage 4. Across the six phases, Wiebes dominated the Belgian stage race with 5 victories.
Lotta Henttala (EF Education-Cannondale) led the sphere dash behind for second place and Charlotte Kool (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) took third.
Finishing safely within the subject dash, Pfeiffer Georgi (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) held her podium spot for second place general. Thalita De Jong (Lotto-Dstny) took third general with a top-10 end on Sunday.
Wiebes received a transparent opening when the lead-outs fr om EF Education and DSM-Firmenich PostNL appeared to maneuver into one another within the closing bend and misplaced momentum, then Wiebes blasted away on the entrance.
The closing stage of the Baloise Ladies Tour started below cloudy skies for a complete of 116.9km, with two intermediate sprints on slim roads and open sections with wind. While Wiebes had all however sewn up the GC together with her double wins on Saturday, the 4 positions behind her have been separated by simply 4 seconds.
On the fourth of seven laps of a 16.5km flat circuit round Deinze, seven riders had a niche of 20 seconds – Femke Beuling (VolkerWessels), Alicia González (Lifeplus-Wahoo), Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset (Coop-Repsol), Alison Jackson (EF Education-Cannondale), Christine Majerus (SD Worx-Protime), Wiktoria Pikulik (Human Powered Health) and Cecilia Van Zuthem (Fenix-Deceuninck).
The peloton wouldn’t take any dangers with the breakaway and made the catch on the third lap.
A solo assault was then launched by Scarlett Souren (VolkersWessels Women’s Pro) and she or he moved out to a 30-second lead on the penultimate lap. With 13.5km to go, the peloton, led by SD Worx-Protime and DSM-Firmenich PostNL, had her of their sights.
Rather than fall again into the bunch, Souren accelerated and 5 others – Wilma Aintila (Lotto-Dstny), Anneke Dijkstra (VolkersWessels Women’s Pro), Megan Jastrab (DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Marie Schreiber (SD Worx-Protime) and Marion Norbert Riberolle (Fenix-Deceuninck Devo) joined her on the entrance of the race, holding a slim 10-second hole with 7.5km to race.
The flat roads and intense tempo mixed for the breakaway to be absorbed, a couple of assaults then failed and it was full steam forward for the peloton for the ultimate kilometres.
SD Worx-Protime lined out on the entrance, however EF Education took over on a closing right-hand nook. Wiebes accelerated to the entrance on a sweeping left-hand bend and sailed away on the entrance of the sphere for an uncontested win by a number of bike lengths.
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