Demi Vollering continued her remarkable season with a thrilling victory to win the women’s road race world title in Montreal.<\/p>\n
The Dutchwoman held off a late challenge from Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney to add another title to her collection, following wins at the Tour de France Femmes, Giro d’Italia Women and World Championships.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old also won a string of one-day classics in the spring, including the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.<\/p>\n
“I can still not believe it. I worked so hard towards this goal, and it takes guts to truly believe in it with your whole heart,” she said.<\/p>\n
Italian Elisa Longo Borghini edged out world time-trial champion Marlen Reusser to take bronze.<\/p>\n
Great Britain’s Flora Perkins was among 15 riders to crash while speeding downhill early in the race.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Magdeleine Vallieres, Mauritius’ Kimberley Le Court and Spain’s Paula Blasi were also involved and eventually had to withdraw. <\/p>\n
Vollering launched her initial attack with about 40km to go only to be reeled in by the chasing pack over the final two laps.<\/p>\n
Poland’s Niewiadoma-Phinney stayed on her wheel in the closing stages but was beaten to the line, with Vollering claiming victory in four hours 45 minutes nine seconds.<\/p>\n
“There were so many moments I thought I went too early,” Vollering said. “I didn’t dare to turn around and look back because I felt like they were almost on my wheel already.<\/p>\n
“I just dared, tried again and never gave up to the finish line.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demi Vollering continued her remarkable season with a thrilling victory to win the women’s road race world title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784128","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\/784128","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=784128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}