The Cuban Arlene Sierra The season ended with the best position of a female cyclist in the Americas in the final update of the women’s world road ranking, Elite category, made up by the International Cycling Union (UCI), according to official media on the Island.
The 29-year-old manzanillera, which this year celebrated its first campaign with the Spanish club Movistaraccumulated 1,398.33 points to rank 20th on the ranking that included 1,368 cyclists, according to a office of the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Major leagues! Arlenis Sierra, the best Latin American in the 2022 UCI ranking: https://t.co/S05OiR0iO7 #Cycling #CyclingWomen #Cuba pic.twitter.com/9Tg2ahJRMp
– International Cycling (@CiclismoInter) October 15, 2022
The universal list was once again led by his partner in Movistar, the Dutch Olympic and world champion, Annemiek Van Vleuten, who added 4,683 units during a season full of successes in races and turns by stages, adds the medium.
In this way, the Cuban was placed as the third best placed of her current team, behind Van Vleuten and the Danish Emma Cecile Bjerg (1555.66 points) and improved three seats with respect to the position achieved last season, in which He ran in the ranks of the AR Monex Womens Pro Cycling team.
The also Dutch Lorena Wiebes, with a harvest of 3,830 points, and the Italian Elisa Longo Borghini, owner of 3,283.66, completed the first three seats in the classification published on the official website of the UCI.
The Arlenis season was marked by important results, such as the Pan-American road title won last May in Argentina (250 points), the sixth place achieved in the World Championship September in Australia (225) and fourth place in the general classification of the Tour of Flanders held in Belgium in April (220).
Cuban Arlenis Sierra finished sixth on the road of the World Cycling Championship
In addition, he added 125 units in Spain with the title in the Vuelta a Andalucía run in May, another 120 thanks to his seventh place a month earlier in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège in Belgium, while fourth place in the Giro dell’Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite -in October- reported 100 points, the information specifies.
The outstanding Cuban road racer closed her forays into the 2022 world circuit riding in the nascent Tour de Romandía, a three-day race in the Swiss Alps, where she won the initial stage and was third in the closing section.
Arlenis will repeat the experience with the Spanish Movistar next year, in which she could also take part in the road tests of the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador and the continental multi-sport event that will later host the capital of Chile.
