Rosa Klöser has claimed the win on the Unbound Gravel 200 professional girls’s race, sprinting to victory on the gruelling professional girls’s race to take probably the most prestigious title within the gravel world.
The 203 mile (327 km) race with 11,850 toes (3,612m) of climbing ended with a lead group of 9 heading into the ultimate mile and whereas it broke up just a little within the technical run in, it ended with a dash battle for the rostrum placings.
Klöser bought the hole on the sprint to the end line in Emporia, Kansas, crossing forward of Geerike Schreurs (SD Worx-ProfessionalTime) who took out second place and in third it was Paige Onweller (Trek-Drftlss).
It was a quick version of the race on the north course, because the roads dried out so there was little to be seen of the dreaded peanut butter mud that riders had been coming throughout in reconnaissance rides, with Klöser ending with a time of 10:26:02.
Last yr’s solo winner Carolin Schiff (Canyon CLLCTV) got here sixth within the dash end whereas 2022 winner and 2023 runner-up Sofia Gomez-Villafañe (Specialized) came visiting the road in fifteenth place, greater than ten minutes again from the winner.
Villafañe mentioned she didn’t get to benefit from the girls’s race very a lot, which noticed no males among the many predominant contenders, due to two flat tyres and a mechanical, however merely acknowledged, ‘that’s bike racing’.
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Unbound 200 professional girls prime 5
| Position |
Rider |
Time |
| 1 |
Rosa Klöser |
10:26:02 |
| 2 |
Geerike Schreurs |
10:26:03 |
| 3 |
Paige Onweller |
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| 4 |
Haley Smith |
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| 5 |
Heather Jackson |
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