Going into La Vuelta Femenina, Mavi García was the Liv-AlUla-Jayco rider anticipated to carry out finest in GC. She stated her aim was high 5 general. While the 40-year-old Spanish Champion will not be on high kind, the staff has seen 25-year-old Ingvild Gåskjenn rise to the event.
Gåskjenn continued to impress after a breakthrough spring marketing campaign, ending fifth on stage 7 on the Vuelta Femenina on Saturday, transferring to thirteenth place general and 5:13 behind race chief Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime). García was in seventeenth general, 6:36 again.
“I’m so happy with the ladies; they protected me all day. We had 4 riders within the entrance break up which was nice and allowed us to cowl a lot of the assaults going in direction of the top. The women have been simply turning all day, preserving the hole, setting me up completely for the dash. The trip deserved higher than fifth, however that’s what I had in the present day,” Gåskjenn stated after the stage.
Both García and Gåskjenn had missed the entrance echelon on stage 4, however they and their teammates Georgia Baker and Silke Smulders have been extra attentive on Saturday.
The staff confirmed that they’d taken the teachings realized earlier within the week and utilized them on stage 7 to nice success, with the Norwegian gaining time on Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM) and Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal), leapfrogging them within the general standings.
After ending fourth and fifth within the sprints on levels 2 and three, Gåskjenn then proved her versatility on the summit finishes on levels 5 and 6, inserting within the high 20 each occasions and frequently enhancing her GC place.
Having joined the Norwegian Continental staff Hitec Products (now Coop-Repsol) at age 18 and stayed there for six seasons, Gåskjenn signed with Jayco-AlUla for 2023. In the spring of 2024, she had her breakthrough within the hilly Classics, the standout consequence being a 3rd place within the Amstel Gold Race.
This week, the 25-year-old is exhibiting that her skills embody levels races as nicely, and he or she is a rider to observe on the ultimate stage of La Vuelta Femenina from Madrid to the Valdesquí ski resort.
