Sandra Alonso (Ceratizit-WNT) won the women’s one day Tour of Guangxi on Sunday, beating Giada Borghesi (Human Powered Health) after the pair spent 35km in a breakaway together.
Alonso’s teammate Marta Lach won the sprint from the chase group for third place.
They worked together well and started the final 27.2km lap 1:16 minutes ahead of a group of 20, where both had several teammates who disrupted the chase. In the last 15km, the pace completely went out of the chase, and Borghesi and Alonso had plenty of time to play cat-and-mouse coming into the final kilometre.
Alonso refused to take over from Borghesi, then launched her sprint out of the Italian’s slipstream to take her first Women’s WorldTour victory. Then 2:49 minutes later, Lach won the sprint for third place.
How it unfolded
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