the Cuban Arlenis Sierra was ratified as the best-placed American pedalist in the ranking announced this Wednesday by the International Cycling Union (UCI) by occupying the 19th place on the list.
The 30-year-old Manzanillera, who is currently a member of the Spanish club Movistar, fell four seats with respect to the previous ranking, but maintained the privileged position with a cumulative score of 1571.33 points, according to a report of the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
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According to the UCI list, in which 1,459 runners appear, the exponent of the American continent that is closest to the Cuban is the American Verónica Ewers, who ranks 23rd with 1,381 units.
In the most recent race, the 2023 Tour of Flanders Classic held this Sunday in Belgium, Sierra finished in a creditable tenth seata performance that allowed him to add 68 points, the outlet specifies.
The best harvest of the Cuban rider this season happened on March 19, when she finished fourth in the Alfredo Binda Trophy, in Italy, with 220 points.
The ACN recalls that last year his greatest balances came thanks to his victory in the Pan-American Championship (250) and the sixth place he achieved in the World Road Championship (225).
Cuban Arlenis Sierra ends the year as the best road cyclist in America
In the most recent update of the ranking The women’s cycling world championship continued Dutch dominance, although now in the hands of Lorena Wiebes, who displaced Olympic and world champion Annemiek van Vleuten, Arlenis’s teammate at Movistar, from the top.
Wiebes now reached 4,228 lines after his performances in three tests held between February and last March corresponding to cycling world circuitwhile Van Vleuten files 4039.
