the cuban cyclist Arlene Sierramember of the Spanish club Movistarwon this Friday in the first stage of the I edition of the Tour de Romandía, in Swissaccording to official media on the island.
Arlenis, 29 years old and a native of the eastern province of Granma, covered the last section of the route in a peloton of about 20 runners and attacked about 200 meters from the finish line located in the city of Lausanne, to thus take the sprintaccording to a note published on the website of the radio station Radio Habana Cuba (RHC).
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With her shot at the sentencing line, the Manzanillo rider outperformed well-known road racers on the world circuit, including the German Lianne Lippert, and the Dutch Demi Vollering, adds the information.
The first of the three fractions of the turn was run this Friday over 134.4 kilometers in Lausanne and included five mountain prizes and 2,300 meters of unevenness, although the final section was played on flat terrain, favorable for sprinters, the text limits.
With two kilometers to go, the two main figures of the Spanish Movistar, the Olympic and world champion from the Netherlands, Annemiek Van Vleuten, and Arlenis hunted down a quartet of breakaways, including the Italian Soraya Paladin (fourth place) and Elisa Longo Borghini (fifth), specifies the medium.
The publication recalls that the second stage of the nascent Swiss tour will run this Saturday over 104.5 kilometers from the town of Syon, with almost 17 kilometers of ascent in its segment before the finish line, located in Thyon at 2090 meters above sea level. sea.
The third and final leg of the season-closing race of the Women’s Road Cycling World Tour will be run on Sunday over 147.6 kilometers between Freiburg and Geneva on flat terrain, ideal for the sprinters in the peloton.
On the Swiss Tour, 16 professional clubs from cycling that group in their ranks many of the best road bikers in the world, says the note.
For Arlenis, the season, the first in the prestigious Spanish cast, has been very fruitful. In addition to achieving remarkable results in several of the professional circuit races, he managed to run solo a meritorious sixth place in the women’s road event of the recent World Championship held in Australia.
In addition, it has remained America’s best placed rider in the ranking world of route and has been during 2022 an important pillar of the collective work that has allowed her teammate, the Dutch Van Vleuten, to win the most important contests of the course, such as the Tour de France Femmes and the Giro d’Italia Donne, among other important races.
