Race leader Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) sprinted to a second win in as many days on stage 2 of the Tour of Chongming Island, navigating a hectic sprint to power to the victory in the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t quite a large winning margin that Wiebes is used to, as she had to find her way out of a box and then sprint shoulder-to-shoulder with Lara Gillespie (UAE Team L’Imad) who could match her speed, but just narrowly missed out at the line, settling from second.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n From the pack sprinting behind, Maggie Coles-Lyster (Human Powered Health) came through for third in front of Clara Copponi (Lidl-Trek).<\/p>\n Latest Videos FromCyclingnews<\/p>\n Despite the day’s flat profile, there were plenty of attacks in the final 50km with teams desperate to try to find a way to prevent Wiebes from just sweeping this race.<\/p>\n A particularly strong group got a gap into the final 30km, including Femke Markus and Femke Markus from SD Worx-Protime, but the peloton were motivated for another sprint and reeled them back in with 15km to go, setting things up for another sprint.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n “It was a day full of breakaway attempts, but we were always well represented and in control of the race,” SD Worx-Protime sports director Christian Kos said.<\/p>\n “Midway through the stage, a dangerous breakaway went clear, but with Femke Gerritse and Femke Markus we had two riders up front. It didn\u2019t guarantee that we would keep the yellow jersey, but it did put us in a very comfortable position. If the breakaway was caught, we could sprint for the stage win with Lorena Wiebes and keep the yellow jersey. If the break stayed away, we had a fresh Femke Gerritse who could go for the stage victory herself. With fifteen kilometers to go, everything came back together.”<\/p>\n Winning both the stages so far, WIebes continues to lead the general classification, and with another pancake-flat stage to come on stage 3, she may well take a clean sweep of wins in China.<\/p>\n “It was another great day. Of course, we want to secure the overall victory tomorrow,” Kos said.<\/p>\n Results<\/p>\n Swipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n Top 4<\/p>\n Position<\/p>\n Rider (Country) Team<\/p>\n Time Gap<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n Lorena Wiebes (Ned) SD Worx-Protime<\/p>\n 3:10:10<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n Lara Gillespie (Irl) UAE Team L’Imad<\/p>\n Row 1 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n Maggie Coles-Lyster (Can) Human Powered Health<\/p>\n Row 2 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Clara Copponi (Fra) Lidl-Trek<\/p>\n Row 3 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n Petra \u0160ev\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 (Cze) Dukla Women Cycling<\/p>\n Row 4 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Quinty Ton (Ned) Liv AlUla Jayco<\/p>\n Row 5 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 7<\/p>\n No\u00e4 Jansen (Ned) Liv AlUla Jayco<\/p>\n Row 6 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 8<\/p>\n Kathrin Schweinberger (Aut) Human Powered Health<\/p>\n Row 7 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 9<\/p>\n Vendula Strakat\u00e1 (Cze) Dukla Women Cycling<\/p>\n Row 8 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n 10<\/p>\n Barbora N\u011bmcov\u00e1 (Cze) Dukla Women Cycling<\/p>\n Row 9 – Cell 2 <\/p>\n Subscribe to Cyclingnews for comprehensive race coverage of the UCI Gravel World Championships, alongside the final Monument of the season, Il Lombardia. Subscribers get unlimited access to exclusive analysis from our expert columnists, in-depth features and industry-leading tech insight. Plus, the Cyclingnews app lets you follow the action wherever you go! Join today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Race leader Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) sprinted to a second win in as many days on stage 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798095","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\/798095","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=798095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}