Marianne Vos wins fourth stage as Antoshina takes overall lead in Trophee d’Or Feminin 2011
Nederland Bloeit team’s Marianne Vos showed her tremendous performance in the fourth stage of Trophee d’Or Feminin 2011 in Avord on Tuesday, August 23 and also takes overall leader’s yellow jersey.
The 24-year-old Dutch cyclo-cross and track racer took the total of 2 hours, 36 minutes and 44 seconds to cover the distance of the stage.
In the final kilometres, Nederland Bloeit controlled the situation and Marianne increased her pace to beat the two leading cyclists. Tatiana Antoshina of Gauss was runner-up with 19 seconds down to Vos.
Giorgia Bronzini of Colavita Forno d'Asolo was in third place with the difference of 1 minute and 33 seconds. Kirsten Wild (AA Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team) tried her best to catch the three leading cyclists but was unable to hold her pace and grabbed
the fourth place ahead of Emma Johansson and Annemiek van vleuten.
Sports director of the Netherlands Jeroen Blijlevens Flowers told the media, "If you know that HTC Highroad Christina Becker leader of an hour to the full house is haunted for the classification of dangerous Antosjina to recover, it's very clever that the
two stayed away."
The group of five cyclists managed to gain a lead in the last kilometres including, Antoshina, Bronzini, Kirsten Wild, Marianne Vos and Emma Johansson.
The two cyclists Johansson and Kirsten Wild launched an attack to take a lead but failed and the other three worked well together. Antoshina attacked but Vos increased her pace and crossed the finish line without any difficulty.
The four cyclists including, Svetlana Pauliukaite (Colavita Forno d'Asolo), Melanie Wotsch, Lise Muller and Cindy Vandermeulen did not finish the stage and Anais Moniz was disqualified.
Gauss team’s Tatiana Antoshina took the overall standing with the timing of 7 hours, 29 minutes and 3 seconds. Charlotte Becker of HTC-Highroad Women was runner-up with 46 seconds down to Russian.
Annemiek Van Vleuten (Nederland Bloeit) was in third place with the difference of 1 minute and 3 seconds ahead of Trixi Worrack and Claudia Hausler.
The next stage will run in Cosne-sur-Loire and all the cyclists will cover the distance of 94.9 kilometres.
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