Charlotte Kool (Fenix-Premier Tech) sprinted to glory at Scheldeprijs Women, winning the race to break her run of three second places in the last three editions.
The Dutchwoman took advantage of the best lead-out among the leading group of riders, with Millie Couzens and Mylène De Zoete hitting the front before she launched in the final 150 metres.
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How it unfolded
The sixth edition of Scheldeprijs Women was run on a 130.3km course, beginning and ending in Schoten. Local laps of 17km length at the finish would fill the latter half of the route, with four passages of a cobbled sector, Broekestraat, the main difficulty of the flat race.
A breakaway of seven riders got away early in the stage, run in dry and sunny conditions. Ilken Seynave (Lotto-Intermarché), Yonna van Dam (Citymesh-Customm), Mari Porton (Handsling Alba), Clara Jäger (LKT Team), Lea Huber (Nexetis), Lucy Gadd, and Leila Gshwentner (Smurfit Westbrook) all made the move.
They’d race on to an advantage of three minutes over the peloton, while two other riders behind – Oda Aune Gissinger (Hitec Products-Fluid Control) and Fariba Hashimi (Vini Fantini-BePink) – attempted to bridge across behind.
The pair didn’t make it across, however, and so it wasback to seven attackers vs the peloton with 80km left to run.
At 65km to go, a major crash hit the peloton, with Quinty Ton (Liv-AlUla-Jayco, Daniek Hangeveld (Visma-Lease a Bike), and Febe Jooris (UAE Team ADQ) among those…
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