Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) won stage 3 of the Vuelta Femenina with a trademark attack into a descent.
After a move by her teammate Alice Towers on a cobbled climb with 2.5km to go was reeled in, the Frenchwoman counterattacked into the descent, quickly opened up a gap, and held off the chasers to the finish by four seconds.
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“It feels crazy. We already won with Noemi [Rüegg], she took the red, and after that, she crashed. So we went from very high to very low, and now we are back up. We think a lot about her, it’s a mix of a lot of emotions. My team did the best ever race, Kristen [Faulkner] tried to attack in the final, then Alice attacked as well. There were only four or five girls who could follow, and as soon as they took her back, I countered. This one is for the team,” said Kerbaol after her victory.
How it unfolded
Felicity Wilson-Haffenden (Lidl-Trek) and Sterre Vervloet (Lotto-Intermarché) attacked only 2km into the 121.2km stage and quickly built a two-minute gap. A chase group consisting of Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Health), Justine Gégu (Mayenne-Monbana-MyPie), and Marina Garau (Vini Fantini-BePink) tried to bridge to the front duo but eventually gave up and waited for the peloton.
Wilson-Haffenden and Vervloet increased their advantage to 3:10 minutes with 91km to…
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