{"id":597151,"date":"2026-05-22T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597151\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:00:12","slug":"teenager-oda-aune-gissinger-earns-mountain-jersey-in-worldtour-debut-at-vuelta-a-burgos-feminas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597151\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager Oda Aune Gissinger earns mountain jersey in WorldTour debut at Vuelta a Burgos F\u00e9minas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening stage of the Vuelta a Burgos F\u00e9minas<\/a> was dominated by a two-rider breakaway, 19-year-old Oda Aune Gissinger (Hitec Products-Fluid Control) and 20-year-old Irene Cagnazzo (Vini Fantini-BePink). The duo spent almost 110km at the front of the race and would earn appearance on the podium, however, it would be a veteran sprinter to show them how a race is won.<\/p>\n

The pair were reeled in 17km from the finish to set up a bunch sprint. Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) earned the victory<\/a>. Since Wiebes is so dominant<\/a> in the sprint, breakaways may be the only option for other teams to find success in the first three days of the race.<\/p>\n

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Elyne Roussel (St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93) had attacked with Cagnazzo and Gissinger, but the Frenchwoman couldn\u2019t follow the pace on the first classified climb, leaving only two riders in the breakaway.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe plan for today was always to go in the break. The cooperation was good; we shared the work all the way and found a good rhythm. I went for the mountain sprints which always gave me a little gap, but other than that, we stayed together,\u201d Gissinger told Cyclingnews after the stage.<\/p>\n

Cagnazzo was awarded the stage 1 combativity prize after Gissinger won all three mountain sprints that came in the first half of the stage, putting the Norwegian into the mountain jersey in her Women\u2019s WorldTour debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cI opened the sprint the first time, and she started the sprint on the second climb. On the last climb, I attacked and dropped her a little bit earlier in order to secure the points,\u201d the Norwegian described the fight for the red jersey between the two escapees.<\/p>\n

Having collected 18 points, Gissinger will keep the mountain jersey for at least another day as there are no classified climbs. The 18 points on offer on stage 3 and the 12 points available on stage 4 before the finishing climb make it possible for a rider to collect enough points to offset the 30 points awarded to the stage 4 winner and win the mountain classification outright \u2013 but it would require at least one more breakaway.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt would be great to keep the jersey, and I will try to do that. But I have to take it day by day and see what will be the best way to race,\u201d said Gissinger.<\/p>\n

The intermediate sprint with 10km to go saw Alena Ivanchenko (UAE Team ADQ) and Anniina Ahtosalo (Uno-X Mobility) go head-to-head. In the slipstream of her teammate Dominika W\u0142odarczyk, Ivanchenko narrowly beat the Finnish champion to take two bonus seconds, putting her in the white jersey for the best U25 rider.<\/p>\n

The fight for the white jersey may provide some suspense on stage 2. With several other sprinters like Megan Jastrab (UAE Team ADQ), Cristina Tonetti (Laboral Kutxa-Fundaci\u00f3n Euskadi), Babette van der Wolf (EF Education-Oatly), Luc\u00eda Ruiz P\u00e9rez, and Carys Lloyd (both Movistar) all just two seconds behind Ivanchenko, the classification is wide open.<\/p>\n

That is something which cannot be said about the sprint finishes where Wiebes looks likely to take a second, and maybe even third, consecutive victory in the upcoming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening stage of the Vuelta a Burgos F\u00e9minas was dominated by a two-rider breakaway, 19-year-old Oda Aune…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597151","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=597151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}