Women’s Tour Down Under: Noemi Rüegg wins stage 2 in perfectly timed attack on Willunga Hill

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Swiss champion Noemi Rüegg (EF Education-Oatley) dropped Silke Smulders (Liv AlUla Jayco) after a one-kilometre drag race on the upper slopes of Willunga Hill to win stage 2, the Queen Stage of the 2025 Women’s Tour Down Under. 

Rüegg survived all attacks on the second ascent of the iconic climb to stay in the reduced peloton bidding her time until the group was down to four riders with Smulders, Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek) and Neve Bradbury (Canyon-Sram zondacrypto)