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Tour Of Chongming Island – Stage 3
Stage Three: Chongming Island, China, 79.2km
Tour GC Podium. Photo: © CJ Farquharson/WomensCycling.net
I finished 3rd today, 3rd on GC at the Tour of Chongming UCI 2.1 tour and 3rd in the sprint classification. The Australian National Team also finished 3rd in the team’s classification.
I don’t think I’ll ever say I’m satisfied with 3rd place but I’m not disappointed, I gained more experience sprinting against the world’s best and look forward to doing it again on Sunday at the World Cup.
Tour Of Chongming Island – Stage 2
Stage Two: Industrial Zone Cup, Chongming Island, China, 79.8km
Close for second place! Photo: © CJ Farquharson/WomensCycling.net
Today’s stage was rather uneventful, not too much happened! There were a few crashes and unfortunately one of my Australian team mates, Shara Gillow fell hard- but she’s a tough cookie and was able to get up and rejoin the main group!
I sat out the first intermediate sprint but managed to score a bonus second in the second intermediate sprint, and then it was time to focus on the finish.
Tour Of Chongming Island – Stage 1
Stage One: Chongbei – Shanghai Fusheng Cup, Chongming Island, China, 72.5km
Dirty Girls!
I had a great feeling out there today but unfortunately I didn’t have the greatest result!
It was evident after the first two intermediate sprints at 29km and 46km that HTC Columbia’s Ina Teutenberg was on fire! Ina looked very explosive and took the first two sprints comfortably. Cervelo’s Kirsten Wild took second in each intermediate sprint and I was 3rd.
Omloop Van Borsele
Omloop Van Borsele. Holland. 17th April 2010
Gilmore and Wild
Cervelo were the strongest and most active team in the break but with 40km to go the attacks started, with 15km to go Cooke launched a strong attack and took 3 other riders with her to get a maximum lead of 50 seconds with 5km to go. Cervelo had Charlotte Becker in the break but decided to continue the chase in order to set up the race for Wild.
Ronde Van Gelderland
Ronde van Gelderland, Apeldoorn, Holland. 17th of April 2010
Podium L-R Gilmore, Wild, Broun
Sweden’s Emma Johansson made a break on the Posbank but was caught with 20km to go. The race was controlled by the Cervelo team who were working 100% for their sprinter- Kirsten Wild who was the eventual race winner.
Lotto team mates; Veronica Andreasson (Swedish), Vicki Whitelaw (Australian) and Kathy Delfosse (Flemish) worked hard to keep Rochelle protected until the final kilometres, the sprint was chaotic as usual but Rochelle found the right wheel and was satisfied with the 2nd place, building into form ahead of her targeted World Cup in China.