Mascha Pijnenborg wins fourth stage and Amanda Spratt takes overall lead in 2011 Tour De Feminin
Mix CR team’s Mascha Pijnenborg showed her tremendous performance and took the fourth stage of 2011 Tour De Feminin in Rumburk. Amanda Spratt maintained her overall leader’s jersey.
The Netherland’s rider Mascha took a total of 2 hours, 34 minutes and 3 seconds to cover the distance of 91.5 kilometres.
Natalia Boyarskaya of the P.C.W team was the runner-up with 4 seconds behind Mascha, while the race leader, Amanda Spratt, finished in the third place.
The Russian rider, Larisa Pankova, was in good form and tried her best to take a lead, but she was unable to maintain her pace and grabbed the fourth place with a difference of 6 seconds.
Andrea Bosman (SRAM W.V Eemland), Belinda Goss (Australia) and Lesya Kalitovska (Ukraine) were in seventh, eighth and ninth places respectively.
The eleven cyclists including, Hanka Kupfernagel (Horizon Fitness), Rohan Battison (For Viored-Rapha), Aleksandra Sosenko (Lithuania) and Karolina Garczynska (Poland) were disqualified from the stage.
With 23 kilometres to go, a group of three cyclists was formed, which included Jessica Kihlbom (Alriksson GO:GREEN), Lelizaveta Oshurkova and Larisa Pankova. All of them worked together and build a lead of few seconds, while Jessica increased her pace and
took the first sprint.
When the race entered in Krasny Buk, the four cyclists, Svetlana Bubnenkova, Larisa Pankova, Jessie Maclean and Mascha Pijnenborg, got away while the Russian attacked with Jessie, but Svetlana increased her pace and took the first mountain of the stage.
With 32 kilometres to go, Svetlana was unable to maintain her lead and Jessica Kihlbom won the second mountain. However, Svetlana again showed her good effort and took the third and fourth mountain of the stage, ahead of Larisa Pankova.
Svetlana took the overall sprint classification and also took the title King of Mountain with 46 points, while Larisa was in the second place with 18 points.
Amanda Spratt from Australia took the overall lead with a timing of 8 hours, 35 minutes and 34 seconds. Natalia Boyarskaya was the runner-up with 20 seconds behind Amanda.
Larisa Pankova finished third with a difference of 54 seconds, while the stage winner, Mascha, was in fifth place with a difference of 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
The next stage will start in Varnsdorf and end in Krásná Lípa. All the cyclists will cover the distance of 98.4 kilometres.
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