Team Visma | Lease a Bike Women has difficult day in fourth stage Tour de France
From Valkenburg, the peloton headed south towards arrival city Liège. The first hill stage in this Tour was described as a mix between the Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The riders raced 122 kilometres on the roads and hills of the two spring classics.
After crossing the Dutch-Belgian border, the peloton was immediately presented with the Mont-Theux and the Côte de la Redoute. On the Côte de la Redoute, the classification riders put pressure. There the balance of forces immediately became clear. On the final climb of the day – the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons – Vollering accelerated again. Only three riders – including stage winner Pieterse – could follow her. Markus and Vos eventually finished one and a half minutes behind the four.
© A.S.O./Charly Lopez
“This was the stage I was looking forward to”, Markus said afterwards. “It turned out to be a disappointment. Until halfway through the race, we were on track. We were well positioned as a team and we did what we had to do. The girls did a lot of work for me, but on the Redoute I had to let the others go. Unfortunately this was the highest possible today.”
“I can’t explain the cause of this bad day yet”, she added. “It’s very unfortunate that it did not work out. Not for me, but not for my teammates either. Now it’s a matter of getting some rest for tomorrow’s stage. There are definitely some more stages coming up where we can show something.”
© A.S.O./Charly Lopez
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
Stage 4
Result
Rankings
Result
1
Puck Pieterse
Fenix-Deceuninck
03:12:28
2
Demi Vollering
Team SD Worx – Protime
+00:00:00
3
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Canyon//SRAM Racing
+00:00:00
24
Marianne Vos
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:01:33
25
Riejanne Markus
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:01:33
32
Anna Henderson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:01:36
38
Fem van Empel
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:03:09
55
Femke de Vries
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:08:36
72
Linda Riedmann
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:09:38
83
Sophie von Berswordt
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:14:23
Rankings
1
Demi Vollering
Team SD Worx – Protime
07:40:10
2
Puck Pieterse
Fenix-Deceuninck
+00:00:22
3
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Canyon//SRAM Racing
+00:00:34
20
Riejanne Markus
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:01:57
22
Marianne Vos
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:01:59
23
Anna Henderson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:01:59
37
Fem van Empel
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:03:50
52
Femke de Vries
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:09:19
68
Linda Riedmann
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:10:25
92
Sophie von Berswordt
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+00:15:12
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