{"id":626251,"date":"2026-06-07T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626251\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:47:11","slug":"giro-ditalia-women-stage-9-elisa-longo-borghini-wins-final-stage-as-demi-vollering-secures-maglia-rosa-to-become-first-to-win-all-three-grand-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626251\/","title":{"rendered":"Giro d’Italia Women Stage 9: Elisa Longo Borghini wins final stage as Demi Vollering secures maglia rosa to become first to win all three Grand Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"

VOLLERING SNATCHES TITLE FROM VAN DER BREGGEN<\/p>\n

Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) has won the Giro d’Italia Women, overhauling Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) on a dramatic final day. <\/p>\n

Despite starting the day 49″ in the clear, it was a day to forget for Van der Breggen, as she lost the maglia rosa during a difficult final stage in this year’s Giro. <\/p>\n

An attack from Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) and Vollering’s eventual chase secured the pink jersey for the Dutchwoman.<\/p>\n

From the four-rider leading group, however, Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) was fastest and won Stage 9 ahead of Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek), Vollering and Niedermaier. <\/p>\n

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Highlights: Vollering takes Giro title ahead of Van der Breggen<\/p>\n

Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

HOW THE STAGE WAS WON<\/p>\n

Another mountainous day for the final stage of this year\u2019s Giro, but slightly longer than Saturday\u2019s, the riders took in a 145km route that started and finished in Saluzzo. They rode three classified climbs, including the Montoso.<\/p>\n

Niedermaier attacked just as the TV coverage began, and took Longo Borghini and Fisher-Black with her, leaving Vollering and Van der Breggen in their wake. Femke de Vries of Visma-Lease a Bike briefly chased the front group but eventually fell back to the maglia rosa.<\/p>\n

With 39km to go, Vollering attacked on the ascent of the Brondello, the final categorised climb of the day. This sparked a furious chase to the front group, and she made contact with 28km to go.<\/p>\n

From there, the gap between the two groups only widened, with Van der Breggen\u2019s seemingly secure GC positioning slipping out of her grasp as the kilometres counted down.<\/p>\n

The front group continued to work well in the final kilometres, with riders positioning themselves for a sprint. With 300 metres to go, Fisher-Black launched an early sprint and only Longo Borghini could come around her in the closing metres, taking her first win of this year’s race.<\/p>\n

And Demi Vollering, that was enough for her to secure the overall win, as Van der Breggen crossed the line over two minutes back.<\/p>\n

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Longo Borghini thought she was ‘done’ after challenging time – ‘I was very sick’<\/p>\n

Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

THE GIRO D’ITALIA WOMEN 2026 FINAL GC<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd47Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd48Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM) + 0’30”<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd49Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) + 1’37”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VOLLERING SNATCHES TITLE FROM VAN DER BREGGEN Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) has won the Giro d’Italia Women, overhauling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-626251","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\/626251","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=626251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}