{"id":584718,"date":"2026-05-15T02:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584718\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:48:24","slug":"cat-ferguson-doubles-up-with-sprint-victory-at-spanish-one-day-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584718\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Ferguson doubles up with sprint victory at Spanish one-day race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Cat Ferguson<\/a> (Movistar<\/a>) became the first double winner of the Navarra Women’s Elite Classic on Thursday when she sprinted to victory at the head of a reduced bunch.<\/p>\n

Based on Pamplona in northeast of Spain, the 1.Pro race covered a hilly 134km with nine classified muros \u2013 a southern European equivalent of the Tour of the Flanders, without the cobbles.<\/p>\n

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Ferguson<\/a> led in an 18-rider sprint, with Ruby Roseman-Gannon<\/a> (Liv AlUla Jayco) and Fiona Mangan (Mayenne Monbana My Pie) placing second and third. Brits Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic PostNL) and Katie Scott (DAS Hutchinson) also finished in the top-10, sixth and eighth respectively.<\/p>\n

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It was a near-identical win to the one she took the year before, when the race was also reduced to a small, 16-rider group and Ferguson led in the sprint.<\/p>\n

Her win at the Navarra Classic this year is the Yorkshire<\/a> born rider’s third of what has been a consistent season so far, following victory in her first race of the season at Mallorca’s Trofeo Llucmajor, and then a stage of the Setmana Valenciana in February. It bodes well for her first participation in the Giro d’Italia Women<\/a> later this month, which will see her using her fast finish to hunt out stage victories.<\/p>\n

Ferguson wasn’t the only Briton adding to their 2026 win tally yesterday; Matthew Brennan<\/a> (Visma-Lease a Bike<\/a>) was also victorious on stage one of the Fl\u00e8che du Sud stage race in Luxembourg. He won the full bunch sprint in Stadtbredimus ahead of Roy Hoogendoorn (Metec Solarwatt p\/b Mantle) and Tobias Risan Nakken (Drali-Repsol). It came at the end of a lumpy but short (94km) stage held over three laps around the town.<\/p>\n

Just like Ferguson, this was Brennan<\/a>‘s third victory of the year \u2013 he won a stage of the Tour Down Under<\/a> in January and then Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in March. He picks up where countryman Thomas Mein left off in last year’s Fl\u00e8che du Sud; then riding for Mg.K Vis Costruzioni e Ambiente, Mein rode consistently throughout, winning the third stage and finishing second on GC.<\/p>\n

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Brennan will wear the leader’s jersey on Friday’s second stage of the five-day race. He is next due to put his talent on show at the French four-day Boucles de Mayenne race, starting 28 May, before going on to race the Tour de Suisse in June and then the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>, his first Grand Tour, in August.<\/p>\n

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