Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime) won the Classic Lorient Agglomération for the third time in a row. In the sprint of a reduced peloton after an attritional finishing circuit, the 25-year-old held off Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Eline Jansen (VolkerWessels) to take the victory.
From an early breakaway, Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek) and Sabrina Stultiens (VolkerWessels) survived onto the final lap, where they were caught by Femke De Vries (Visma-Lease a Bike), Eleonora Gasparrini (UAE Team ADQ), and Franzi Koch (Picnic PostNL).
Brand and Stultiens could not follow these three on the Côte du Lézot, where Liane Lippert (Movistar) attacked from the peloton, taking Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) with her and bridging to the front trio, with Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) just missing the move.
“Today I was riding with my grandma in my head because we got some bad news this week, and I really wanted to get this win for her today,” an emotional Bredewold dedicated her victory to her grandmother.
“I think it’s lucky for me to crash here. Two years ago, I also crashed and won. I felt really good today, and the girls kept believing in me even though I crashed, and that gave me wings. I know how to do this finish really well, so I know how to time it. But Marianne came, she was in front of me for quite some time. I thought ‘I need to keep going’ because I know I’m good in long sprints, and I could just pass her again, that was crazy,” Bredewold recounted the sprint.
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