Women’s Tour: Stage 2

Amy Pieters wins stage 2 ahead of Hannah Barnes, Niewiadoma still leads, Lizzie Deignan drops out of GC race

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Women’s Tour: Stage 2

Amy Pieters wins stage two of the Women’s Tour ahead of British champion Hannah Barnes

Amy Pieters surged to victory in Stoke-on-Trent at the end of the second stage of the Women’s Tour, pipping British Champion Hannah Barnes to the stage win as Katarzyna Niewiadoma retained the overall lead and the Green leaders Jersey.

The Polish rider, who put in a dominant display to win Stage One in Northamptonshire on Wednesday, finished in fifth spot to maintain a 1-minute 46-second lead over teammate Marianne Vos, who came home fourth in the Potteries. Hannah Barnes moves up to third overall thanks to the time bonuses and also takes the Adnams Best British Rider Jersey from her sister, Drops rider Alice.

“It’s bittersweet. I’m really pleased to be up there in the finish, it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to be aggressive and get a good placing like that,” said Barnes speaking afterwards. “But I’d have loved to have finished off the team’s good work today with a win.”

“I love wearing my national champion’s jersey. It’s one that all the fans look for any every time I put it on I’m really proud.”

The 93-rider field had toiled through wind and rain on the roads of Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, in a fast paced stage that started and finished in the city centre. Marta Bastianelli, Anna Trevisi and Alison Jackson all spent time at the head of the race, but the move of the day came when Lucinda Brand went clear on the steep, lower slopes of the opening Queen of the Mountains climb at Ipstones.

Trixi Worrack and Christine Majerus spent some time chasing, but all in vain as they were caught by a vastly diminished peloton before the final categorised climb of Gun Hill, with Brand holding her lead until the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent as a thirty plus rider group made contact.

“It was a really hard day, we lost a bit of time on the GC yesterday so our goal was to go for the stage win,” said Amy Pieters of Boels Dolmans afterwards. “Our team was pretty strong today. Christine [Majerus] got in the front at one point and we were almost all there together going into the finish. We spoke about preparing for a sprint so they could save my energy, and the girls helped me really well in the finale.

“The climbs were really tough. The first one was long, the second was really steep and stayed steep all the time. We came back over the top of Gun Hill and I knew it was going to be a sprint. I’m really happy that the girls helped me today.”

Two further hilly stages in Warwickshire and Derbyshire are ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma on Friday and Saturday, before the flat final stage in London on Sunday. “I don’t want to overreact or get too confident, but this is another day done,” said the 22-year-old WM3 Pro Cycling rider who is also the Points leader. “Anything can happen, as we saw today. It’s so hard to control it when lots of teams are attacking. I know that everybody wants that Green (leaders) Jersey, so it’s like one team versus all of the others. It’s a big battle.”

“There were a lot of times that I thought ‘oh my god, goodbye green jersey’. But you can’t lose hope, I tried to stay relax and calm. I knew that, even if Lucinda was going to stay clear upfront, other teams would want to target the stage win. That meant it wouldn’t be up to us to chase all the time; other teams would feel a responsibility to bring it back.”

Ten riders remain within two minutes of Niewiadoma including both Barnes sisters and Dani King. Cervelo Bigla’s Lisa Klein retained the Sprints Jersey while Audrey Cordon-Ragot extended her lead in the Queen of the Mountains classification, with Brand now her nearest challenger, six points adrift.

Stage Three on Friday 9 June takes place in Warwickshire, heading south from Atherstone to finish in Royal Leamington Spa.

To come …
Stage 3 – Friday 9 June – Atherstone to Royal Leamington Spa
Stage 4 – Saturday 10 June – Chesterfield to Chesterfield
Stage 5 – Sunday 11 June – The London Stage

PROVISIONAL

Stage 2
1 PIETERS Amy DLT 03:49:42
2 BARNES Hannah LPR MT
3 VAN DIJK Ellen SUN MT
4 VOS Marianne WM3 MT
5 NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna WM3 MT
6 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa WHT MT
7 MOOLMAN-PASIO Ashleigh CBT MT
8 *BARNES Alice DRP MT
9 KING Danielle CPC MT
10 BIANNIC Aude FDJ MT
11 VAN DER BREGGEN Anna DLT @ 6
12 *MACKAIJ Floortje SUN MT
13 *LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup CBT MT
14 *KLEIN Lisa CBT MT
15 KIRCHMANN Leah SUN 10
16 AMIALIUSIK Alena LPR MT
17 AALERUD Katrine HPU MT
18 GILLOW Shara FDJ MT
19 DE VUYST Sofie LWD MT
20 JASINSKA Malgorzata CPC MT
21 BRENNAUER Lisa LPR MT
22 CROMWELL Tiffany LPR MT
23 RATTO Rossella CPC MT
24 ARCHIBALD Katie WNT MT
25 ENSING Janneke ALE MT
26 HEINE Vita HPU MT
27 MAJERUS Christine DLT MT
28 ELVIN Gracie ORS 15
29 ARZUFFI Alice LWK MT
30 CORDON RAGOT Audrey WHT MT
31 BLAAK Chantal DLT 17
32 GRINCZER Natalie WNT 22
33 YONAMINE Eri FDJ 32
34 LICHTENBERG Claudia WHT 58
35 *MANLY Alexandra ORS MT
36 WORRACK Trixi LPR 01:07
37 CECCHINI Elena LPR MT
38 BRAND Lucinda SUN 01:27
39 PENTON Sara TVW 06:43
40 KOSTER Anouska WM3 MT
41 MOBERG Emilie HPU MT
42 PAYTON Hannah DRP MT
43 KASPER Romy ALE 06:45
44 *PARKINSON Abby-Mae DRP 06:47
45 CROOKS Jenelle ORS MT
46 PERCHTOLD Christina CBT MT
47 DUVAL Eugénie FDJ MT
48 PLICHTA Anna WM3 MT
49 RITTER Martina DRP MT
50 BRAMMEIER Nikki DLT MT
51 STULTIENS Sabrina SUN MT
52 BLOCH Shani TVW MT
53 POHL Stephanie CBT MT
54 CONFALONIERI Maria Giulia LWK MT
55 *KOPPENBURG Clara CBT MT
56 SIMPSON Annabel DRP MT
57 BASTIANELLI Marta ALE MT
58 FRAPPORTI Simona HPU MT
59 BRONZINI Giorgia WHT MT
60 BJØRNSRUD Miriam HPU MT
61 DURRELL Rebecca DRP MT
62 KNETEMANN Roxanne FDJ MT
63 DEIGNAN Elizabeth DLT MT
64 D’HOORE Jolien WHT 09:10
65 REIS Daniela LWD MT
66 RIJKES Sarah LWD MT
67 THORSEN Thea HPU 09:13
68 NEYLAN Rachel ORS MT
69 SANGUINETI Ilaria BPK MT
70 FOURNIER Roxane FDJ MT
71 ROE Eileen WNT MT
72 SLIK Rozanne SUN MT
73 MAES Elise WNT MT
74 VALSECCHI Silvia BPK MT
75 *SPEROTTO Maria Vittoria BPK MT
76 HOSKING Chloe ALE MT
77 SIGGAARD Christina TVW MT
78 KITCHEN Lauren WM3 MT
79 FAHLIN Emilia WHT MT
80 *KOREVAAR Jeanne WM3 MT
81 GUDERZO Tatiana LWK MT
82 JACKSON Alison BPK 12:13
83 ROY Sarah ORS MT
84 INGELBRECHT Sarah LWD 14:11
85 CUCINOTTA Annalisa LWK MT
86 GUTIERREZ RUIZ Sheyla CPC MT
87 TUSLAITE Daiva ALE 18:32
88 BOYLAN Lydia WNT 19:01
89 KNOL Willeke CPC 19:09
90 *JONES Hayley WNT MT
91 *PATTARO Francesca BPK MT
92 SPOOR Winanda LWK MT
93 TREVISI Anna ALE 19:41
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Overall
1 NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna WM3 07:41:11
2 VOS Marianne WM3 01:46
3 BARNES Hannah LPR MT
4 VAN DIJK Ellen SUN 01:48
5 PIETERS Amy DLT MT
6 MOOLMAN-PASIO Ashleigh CBT 01:52
7 *BARNES Alice DRP MT
8 MAJERUS Christine DLT 01:55
9 *LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup CBT 01:58
10 KING Danielle CPC 01:59
11 BIANNIC Aude FDJ 02:00
12 LONGO BORGHINI Elisa WHT MT
13 ARCHIBALD Katie WNT 02:01
14 *KLEIN Lisa CBT MT
15 CROMWELL Tiffany LPR 02:02
16 KIRCHMANN Leah SUN MT
17 *MACKAIJ Floortje SUN 02:06
18 VAN DER BREGGEN Anna DLT MT
19 ENSING Janneke ALE 02:10
20 GILLOW Shara FDJ MT
21 DE VUYST Sofie LWD MT
22 HEINE Vita HPU MT
23 AMIALIUSIK Alena LPR MT
24 AALERUD Katrine HPU MT
25 JASINSKA Malgorzata CPC MT
26 BRENNAUER Lisa LPR MT
27 ARZUFFI Alice LWK 02:15
28 CORDON RAGOT Audrey WHT MT
29 BLAAK Chantal DLT 02:17
30 RATTO Rossella CPC 02:19
31 GRINCZER Natalie WNT 02:22
32 ELVIN Gracie ORS 02:31
33 YONAMINE Eri FDJ 02:41
34 CECCHINI Elena LPR 03:07
35 *MANLY Alexandra ORS 03:13
36 WORRACK Trixi LPR 03:15
37 BRAND Lucinda SUN 03:25
38 LICHTENBERG Claudia WHT 03:29
39 MOBERG Emilie HPU 08:35
40 CONFALONIERI Maria Giulia LWK 08:39
41 BRONZINI Giorgia WHT MT
42 DURRELL Rebecca DRP MT
43 PENTON Sara TVW 08:43
44 KOSTER Anouska WM3 MT
45 DUVAL Eugénie FDJ 08:47
46 FRAPPORTI Simona HPU MT
47 DEIGNAN Elizabeth DLT MT
48 PAYTON Hannah DRP 08:52
49 KASPER Romy ALE 08:54
50 *PARKINSON Abby-Mae DRP 08:56
51 PERCHTOLD Christina CBT MT
52 PLICHTA Anna WM3 MT
53 RITTER Martina DRP MT
54 *KOPPENBURG Clara CBT MT
55 BASTIANELLI Marta ALE MT
56 BRAMMEIER Nikki DLT 09:03
57 POHL Stephanie CBT 09:08
58 KNETEMANN Roxanne FDJ 09:11
59 CROOKS Jenelle ORS 09:20
60 BLOCH Shani TVW MT
61 STULTIENS Sabrina SUN MT
62 BJØRNSRUD Miriam HPU MT
63 FOURNIER Roxane FDJ 11:05
64 SIGGAARD Christina TVW MT
65 HOSKING Chloe ALE MT
66 D’HOORE Jolien WHT MT
67 ROE Eileen WNT 11:13
68 SANGUINETI Ilaria BPK MT
69 KITCHEN Lauren WM3 MT
70 *KOREVAAR Jeanne WM3 MT
71 GUDERZO Tatiana LWK 11:22
72 *SPEROTTO Maria Vittoria BPK 11:29
73 RIJKES Sarah LWD 11:34
74 REIS Daniela LWD 11:43
75 THORSEN Thea HPU 11:46
76 NEYLAN Rachel ORS MT
77 SLIK Rozanne SUN MT
78 SIMPSON Annabel DRP 11:54
79 MAES Elise WNT 11:56
80 JACKSON Alison BPK 14:10
81 ROY Sarah ORS 14:12
82 GUTIERREZ RUIZ Sheyla CPC 16:57
83 CUCINOTTA Annalisa LWK 17:26
84 TREVISI Anna ALE 21:48
85 INGELBRECHT Sarah LWD 22:21
86 BOYLAN Lydia WNT 27:18:00
87 VALSECCHI Silvia BPK 28:38:00
88 FAHLIN Emilia WHT 30:33:00
89 *PATTARO Francesca BPK 35:09:00
90 TUSLAITE Daiva ALE 39:52:00
91 *JONES Hayley WNT 40:29:00
92 KNOL Willeke CPC MT
93 SPOOR Winanda LWK 42:37:00

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