{"id":618935,"date":"2026-06-03T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:27:19","slug":"giro-ditalia-women-stage-5-live-a-huge-breakaway-containing-some-gc-threats-leads-anna-van-der-breggens-favourites-group-by-four-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618935\/","title":{"rendered":"Giro d’Italia Women stage 5 LIVE: A huge breakaway containing some GC threats leads Anna van der Breggen’s favourites’ group by four minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2026-06-03T13:23:15.969Z
\n70km to go <\/p>\n

Caroline Andersson won the maximum points at the top of the Passo Tre Croci, while Van der Breggen’s favourites’ group remains 3.28 behind the day’s breakaway.<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T13:15:40.160Z<\/p>\n

There’s still a fair bt of descending to go, the next climb begins with 61km to go.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T13:09:22.654Z
\n80km to go <\/p>\n

The breakaway’s lead over the Van der Breggen group has increased to 3.20, while we have no information on the chasing group.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T13:06:58.546Z<\/p>\n

Cavllar was a left field signing for SD Worx this year, joining after two years with Arkea-B&B Hotels where she won the Alpes Gresivaudan Classic and performed very well in other mountainous races.
A former rower, she represented Austria athe Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T13:04:07.929Z<\/p>\n

The Van der Breggen group are now less than three minutes behind the leaders, but what a day it is with such a group of hitters up the road.
Both Dickson and Cavallar came to the sport late.
Dickson a former runner who joined FDJ this year, aged 25.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T13:00:33.707Z<\/p>\n

The group of four, which had been a steady minute behind the leaders, has splintered on the climb and onto the descent, with the four women spread about 40 seconds on the road.
One of them is Picnic-PostNL’s former British champion, Pfeiffer Georgi.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:57:54.625Z<\/p>\n

Over the top of the Tre Croci and the gaps are unlikely to change too much on the descent. It’ll be fast as it’s not too technical, with few hairpins, though it is long, almost 30km.<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T12:51:07.901Z
\n90km to go <\/p>\n

Almost at the top of the Passo Tre Croci and the breakaway’s advantage has tumbled down to only 3.21.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:48:27.308Z<\/p>\n

On the climb the gap has dropped to 4.05, with SD Worx and Movistar lead ing the bunch.
Movistar started the day with Marlen Reusser second place and while they have Mareille Meijer in the leading group, she is 22.04 down. The Spanish squad will need to work to salvage Reusser’s GC.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:44:01.108Z<\/p>\n

There’s been some confusion in the information coming from on the ground. The race is on the the first major climb of the day.<\/p>\n

The Passo Tre Croci is 8km in length with a fairly even gradient of 7.3% and by the time they reach the top they’ll be over 1800m so the altitude could be an issue for some.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:39:39.483Z<\/p>\n

In theory, now the breakaway is the GC group, but we’ll call them the breakaway.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:37:06.086Z
\n95km to go <\/p>\n

The breakaway are now on the first 1st category climb, the Passo Tre Croci and lead the GC group by 4.55.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:35:22.218Z<\/p>\n

Of the breakaway the following riders started the day within five minutes of Van der Breggen’s overall lead.
Lauren Dickson (FDJ United-SUEZ) @ 1.38,
Nadia Gontova (Liv-Alula-Jayco) @ 2.44,
Valentina Cavallar (SD Worx-Protime) @ 2.53,
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Canyon-Sram) @2.44,
Mie Bj\u00f8rdal Ottestad (UNO=X Mobility) @ 2.57,
Mereia Bentio (AG Insurance-Soudal) @3.22,
Vikt\u00f3ria Chlada\u0148ov\u00e1 (Visma-Lease a Bike) @3.55
Maya Kingma (Aromitalia Vaiano) @4.27 and
Emilie Morier (ST Michel-Preference homes-Auber93) @4.49.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:25:29.125Z<\/p>\n

After her spectacular win yesterday Anna van der Breggen was certainly in reflective mood.<\/p>\n

“The road to victory is not always immediate,” she said.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Anna\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T12:22:16.437Z<\/p>\n

As it stands the Dickson group lead the race, a second group of four are a minute behind, while the Van der Breggen group are at 2.30.
Who blinks first?<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:19:44.919Z
\n100km to go <\/p>\n

The clever thing SD Worx have done is allow Valentina Cavallar into the leading group. the Austrian is 14th on GC, 2.53 behind team mate Van der Breggen and 1.15 behind Dickson.
This gives FDJ and SD Worx a fascinating strategic decision to make; do they allow their second ranaked riders to fight for the race win? Do they let the jersey ride up the road?<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:10:26.551Z<\/p>\n

The group at the front consists of around 30 riders, including Lauren Dickson, a FDJ United-SUEZ team mate of Demi Vollering. The British rider started the day 1.38 behind Van der Breggen, in sixth place.
Having her in the break puts hige pressure on Van der Breggen and her SD Worx squad.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T12:00:12.577Z<\/p>\n

We’re not yet sure whether she has been dropped or whether a huge breakaway has been allowed to form.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:58:17.159Z<\/p>\n

Anna van der Breggen is onto something in the leading part of the peloton, instead the maglia rosa is 55 seconds behind, with a group of around 30 at the front.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:56:26.033Z<\/p>\n

Isabella Holmgren was the first of the Lidl-Trek riders home yesterday. and is the best young rider in this year’s race.<\/p>\n

The Canadian rider is “nervous but excited” about her GC role.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\"Isabella\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T11:53:52.521Z
\n120km to go <\/p>\n

Still no breakaway has formed, we’re on the flatter section now, though.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:45:38.052Z
\n130km to go <\/p>\n

Still all together as we approach the top of the unclassified climb. It’s almost 30km from the top unit they reach the bottom of the Passo Tre Croci and, while it’s a gentle false flat, it could be the perfect place for a break to go clear.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:42:54.914Z<\/p>\n

But what about yesterday, the stage 4 time trial certainly rearranged the general classification<\/p>\n

Anna van der Breggen crushes opposition with stunning uphill time trial victory on stage 4, moves into pink jersey.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"NEVEGAL,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T11:41:01.488Z<\/p>\n

Visma-Lease a Bike are on the front of the bunch. They’ll be looking to the ir young French climber, Marion Bunel for a big day. She put time into Van der Breggen on the final day of the Vuelta Femenina, on the slopes of l’Angliru. There’s nothing quite so brutal today, though.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:34:29.590Z<\/p>\n

After such a tumultuous day yesterday, who’s wearing which jersey?
Major shake-up to overall standings after tough uphill TT with big time gaps. <\/a><\/p>\n

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\"NEVEGAL,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T11:33:04.592Z<\/p>\n

We’re at the base of PIeve di Cadore with a complete peloton.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:29:13.579Z
\n140km to go <\/p>\n

Still al together, but with attacks in the bunch.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:28:04.434Z<\/p>\n

First up is the unclassified climb to Pieve di Cadore is 5km at 5.4%. We’ll be there in just over 10km.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:26:28.651Z<\/p>\n

The first categorised climb is Passo Tre Croci is the day’s first climb, but that begins in Cortina d’Ampezzo after 48.3km, but the riders will have climbed over 900m by then.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:25:22.425Z<\/p>\n

Here we go, the attacks have started. There’ll many trying to get away for the chance of victory or for the breakaway’s sake, but Van der Breggen’s GC rivals might want to pressure her and the SD Worx-Protime team, weakened by the loss of two riders. They start with only five in total, remember.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:21:48.582Z<\/p>\n

The start town of Longarone has hosted four starts of the men’s Giro d’Italia, but the town has a tragic past. In 1963 the village was destroyed in the Vajont Dam disaster and almost 2,000 people were killed.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:17:17.312Z
\nOfficial start<\/p>\n

Let’s go. This could be an epic day’s racing.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:08:13.210Z<\/p>\n

The stage is a proper beast, starting with two 1st category climbs before two ascents of the same 3rd category climb. The Passo Trio Croci comes first, the Passo di Sant’Antonio next, then a loop including the double ascent of the Costa climb.<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T11:02:18.789Z<\/p>\n

Here we go then, we’re uphill from the line today, though only after 6.4km of neutral.
A maximum forecast temperature of 21\u00ba today, and while there’ll be some sunshine, there’s a weather alert for storms too. Anything could happen!<\/p>\n

2026-06-03T10:53:22.804Z<\/p>\n

Race leader, Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) heads to sign on ahead of the stage.<\/p>\n

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\"Anna\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T10:47:56.479Z<\/p>\n

Barbara Malcotti is Human Powered Health’s climbing hope for today’s stage, but first some stretching.<\/p>\n

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\"Barbara\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T10:40:12.618Z<\/p>\n

They’re in Longarone for today’s stage, and on the cards is 146km to Santo Stefano di Cadore. We’re still in north eastern Italy, in the Alps, east of Bolzano. We’ll pass through the ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo.<\/p>\n

Another GC shake-up expected on mountainous day with 3,400 metres of elevation. <\/a><\/p>\n

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\"NEVEGAL,\n<\/p>\n

Anna van der Breggen leads the Giro d’Italia Women ahead of stage 5 (Image credit: Getty Images)
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2026-06-03T10:34:25.579Z<\/p>\n

Niamg Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek) isn’t the only rider warming up before the stage.<\/p>\n

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\"Niamh\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-03T10:30:53.813Z<\/p>\n

While people are rightly looking at Saturday’s eighth stage and its iconic climbs, with 3,330m of vertical ascent, today has more climbing than any other stage this week. We roll out at 12:55CET.<\/p>\n

Good morning, and welcome again to the Cyclingnews coverage of stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2026-06-03T13:23:15.969Z 70km to go Caroline Andersson won the maximum points at the top of the Passo Tre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618935","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\/618935","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=618935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}