{"id":304745,"date":"2025-11-24T03:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304745\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:28:07","slug":"lorena-wiebes-and-jonathan-milan-cross-the-line-first-at-beking-monaco-criterium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304745\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorena Wiebes and Jonathan Milan cross the line first at Beking Monaco criterium"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a clear-cut solo victory for Lorena Wiebes<\/a> (SD Worx-Protime) at the first women’s edition of the Beking Monaco criterium while Jonathan Milan<\/a> (Lidl-Trek) claimed the men’s event in a three-way sprint.<\/p>\n

“There was a huge crowd supporting the event, and it\u2019s great to see how cycling can bring so many people together \u2014 especially considering this isn\u2019t a traditional race, but an event combining sport, fun, and social projects to help young people get closer to sport,” said Milan in a media release from organisers.<\/p>\n

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“The pace was high from the start, and in the end I managed to win against the incredible Tadej Poga\u010dar and the home favourite Victor Langellotti. I had so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 48km and 35 lap men’s criterium, last year won by Poga\u010dar, was contested by 35 riders on Sunday and was slotted in among a schedule that also included a Pro-Am Charity race \u2013 where 15 teams made up of professionals, ambassadors and amateurs battled it out earlier in the day on the same criterium course \u2013 and also two kids rides. The women’s pro-criterium was a new addition for the fifth running of the event this year.<\/p>\n

Wiebes took a dominant win in the 20 lap, 27km pro criterium ahead of Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) in second and Anna Trevisi (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) in third.<\/p>\n

“I really enjoyed Beking,\u201d says winner Lorena Wiebes. \u2018In the Netherlands, criteriums are very popular from the junior categories, so it felt great to take part in such an event in a city like Monaco. It\u2019s truly special to race here. The race was full of action \u2014 I think it was exciting to watch.<\/p>\n

“On the uphill section after the finish line, I attacked and managed to create the decisive gap. It worked out well \u2014 I\u2019m very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The event also concluded with a charity auction with items on offer including Tour de France points winner Milan\u2019s bike and green jersey, Lotte Kopecky\u2019s 2024 World Championship winning bike, a number of Poga\u010dar\u2019s key jerseys \u2013 including yellow, rainbow and European champion jerseys \u2013 plus Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot\u2019s Tour de France Femmes leader’s jersey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have taken part in the event. It\u2019s my first time here, and I think combining sport and charity is a fantastic idea,” said Niewiadoma. “Riding your bike while contributing to a good cause is amazing \u2014 we should do it more often!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a clear-cut solo victory for Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) at the first women’s edition of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-304745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}