Refresh
No response from the peloton with Fityus the best-placed rider on GC, sitting in forty fourth place, 48 seconds down.
Dale assaults once more with Haylee Fuller (BridgeLane) and Lucie Fityus (ARA – Slip Capital) leaping on her wheel with 70km to go.
75km to go
Peloton caught the early break of 4 riders, and FDj-Suez is a the entrance to regulate for the ochre jersey of Uttrup Ludwig.
And it’s all again collectively.
And now we’ve 4 riders collectively off the entrance. Ragusa, Edwards, Dale and Edwards are along with a 32-second lead on an uncategorized climb. Peloton is holding them on a brief leash.
Another rider, Stine Dale (Coop-Repsol) jumps to chase the three riders off the entrance because the timber swirl round within the wind.
Ricardo simply bridges as much as the break, making it three off the entrance with a gasoline of 30 seconds. And Ricardo goes straight to the entrance with Ragusa on her wheel.
Gina Ricardo (BridgeLane) jumps from the sector and goes off on a lone chase to the breakaway.
Ragusa remains to be not pulling by whereas Edwards, the Oceania champion, retains on pushing on the entrance. Peloton pace has picked up however no sense of urgency, but.
Edwards flicks her elbow to get Ragusa to tug by however Ragusa shakes her head.
Ragusa takes care of enterprise, and goes solo to take high factors. That ought to safe the general QOM classification. Edwards jumps, and screams on the motorcycle to get out of the way in which, and Ragusa slots in behind her.
90km to go
5 riders – Ragusa, Poulsen, Edwards, Dale and Söderqvist within the breakaway with lower than 1 km to the too of the QOM. Peloton holding them shut.
Poulsen and Ragusa are joined by Sophie Edwards (ARA – Slip Capital), Stine Dale (Coop-Repsol) and Karin Söderqvist (Lifeplus Wahoo) however the peloton is chasing exhausting.
The highway goes up from the beginning, with the primary QOM solely 3.8km into the stage, the cat 1 climb at Windy Level with a mean gradient of 6% and a max gradient of 20%.
That didn’t take lengthy. First assault by Amanda Poulsen (BridgeLane). She’s joined by Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Well being)
Flag drop by race director Stuart O’Grady and we’re out of the impartial zone and racing has began!
One rider to look at in the present day is Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal). The Australian holds the report for the quickest ascent of Willunga and put in a scorching efficiency to win with a margin of greater than a minute at Santos Pageant of Biking home occasion in 2021 on the climb.
Learn extra on Gigante in her interview with Cyclingnews Australia editor Simone Giuliani.
The riders are rolling by the 7km impartial part on their strategy to the official begin. As we speak’s forecast excessive is 30 levels Celsius underneath cloudy skies. Winds are up, which might make issues fascinating because the race hits the coast with about 20km to go earlier than heading again inland to tackle Willunga Hill.
We’re simply moments away from the impartial roll out for the third and last stage for the 85 riders within the peloton.
When requested what she considered the ascent of Willunga Hill, Uttrup Ludwig’s response was a grinning ”I prefer it.” Learn extra in our evaluation – All to play for on Willunga Hill finale on the Girls’s Tour Down Underneath.
Stage 3 of the Girls’s Tour Down Underneath is about to begin in slightly below 10 minutes. Beginning in Adelaide, the 93km stage heads in direction of the coast to ship the ultimate problem, the well-known Willunga Hill, a 3km climb with a mean gradient of seven.4% and a most of 15.6%
Stage 2 winner Cecilia Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) tops the final classification with a 2-second lead on Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Workforce ADQ) and three seconds on Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco). Tight GC with 25 riders all inside 10 seconds of the chief.
Welcome to Cyclingnews’ reside protection of the third and last stage of the Girls’s Tour Down Underneath.
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