{"id":140373,"date":"2025-09-16T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140373\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:23:10","slug":"irelands-gillespie-pushes-wiebes-all-the-way-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140373\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Gillespie pushes Wiebes all the way in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gillespie-Lara-by-Aymeric-Lassak-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199403\"  \/>Just 24 hours after winning in France, Lara Gillespie has pushed the world\u2019s best sprint, Lorena Wiebes, all the way in Fourmies (Photo: Aymeric Lassak)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just 24 hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stickybottle.com\/races-results\/lara-gillespie-storms-in-for-brilliant-victory-in-france-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">winning A Travers les Hauts de France\u00a0(1.1) in France<\/a>, Lara Gillespie (UAE Team ADQ) has pushed the world\u2019s best sprinter, Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx-Protime), all the way in La Choralis Fourmies F\u00e9minine\u00a0(1.Pro).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Wiebes is perhaps the best sprinter in the history of women\u2019s race, having taken 25 wins so far this season, but Ireland\u2019s Gillespie got closest to her today after 123km of racing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Indeed, Gillespie may have done better with slightly more support in the final kilometre. Though she was second wheel just before the sprint began, behind SD Worx-Protime\u2019s final lead-out rider for Wiebes, that wasn\u2019t without its problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When that rider pulled over a little early, Gillespie found herself on the front too soon. And though she kept her gallop going all the way to the line for 2nd place, Wiebes came off the wheel of the Irish rider to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gladys Verhulst-Wild (AG Insurance-Soudal) rounded out the podium on a day when Ireland\u2019s Mia Griffin (Roland) also rode very well, taking 13th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More to come.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">20\u00e8me victoire de la saison pour Lorena Wiebes ! La championne d&#8217;Europe a remport\u00e9 facilement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChoralisFourmies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ChoralisFourmies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GPFourmies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GPFourmies<\/a> devant Lara Gillespie et Gladys Verhulst-Wild <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kJRcSCiatB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kJRcSCiatB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udeb4 Les Rois du Peloton \ud83d\udeb2 (@LRoisDuPeloton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LRoisDuPeloton\/status\/1967223208639402309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just 24 hours after winning in France, Lara Gillespie has pushed the world\u2019s best sprint, Lorena Wiebes, all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-140373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}