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January 20, 2024
Challenge de Mallorca 🇪🇸 2024 WE – 1 – Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi – Felanitx – Colònia de Sant Jordi : 127,3 km
The Women’s Mallorca Challenge is a cycling race that has inaugurated the Spanish women’s circuit since 2024.
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January 20, 2024
Challenge de Mallorca 🇪🇸 2024 WE – 1 – Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi – Felanitx – Colònia de Sant Jordi : 127,3 km
The Women’s Mallorca Challenge is a cycling race that has inaugurated the Spanish women’s circuit since 2024. It takes place on the island of Mallorca at the end of January and consists of three races that are part of the UCI women’s international calendar in category 1.1: the Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi, the Trofeo Palma and the Trofeo Binissalem-Andratx. This is the equivalent of the Majorca Challenge, for women.
Noemi Rüegg took the first win for the newly formed Continental team EF Education-Cannondale at the Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi, the first event of the Challenge Mallorca Femenina. The Swiss rider was fastest to the line, beating Arlenis Sierra (Movistar) and Chiara Consonni (UAE Team ADQ) in Ses Salines.
The teams that have not travelled to the southern hemisphere for the Tour Down Under began their road racing seasons at the new Challenge Mallorca Femenina, which offers three one-day races held from Jan 20-22.
The first one-day race of three races was 127km from Felanitx to Colònia de Sant Jordi. The race offered three intermediate sprints and two category 4 ascents before a drop into the finish in Colònia de Sant Jordi.
The field was together for the first sprint in Ses Salines, won by Rüegg, who set the tone for the day’s race.
Rotem Gafinovitz (Hess Cycling) was the first to launch a solo attack, but her efforts came to an end ahead of the first of two ascents where Alice Palazzi (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo) captured the full points over the top.
A breakaway formed mid-race with Giorgia Vettorello (Roland) and Laura Asencio (Ceratizit-WNT) surging off the front of the field. Vettorello secured the intermediate sprint points in Felanitx.
The move was short-lived, and Vettorello rejoined the field ahead of the 1.8km second climb. Although Asencio hung on a little longer and took full points over the top, she, too, was reeled in on the descent with 34km to go.
Inside 10km, riders from Proximus-Cyclis and Maxx-Solar Rose, respectively, attacked, but it was Movistar’s lead-out for Sierra that held the field together in the closing kilometres.
There was no denying a group sprint, and it was who Rüegg powered over the line ahead of Sierra and Consonni to take a season-opening victory.
Results :
 and Chiara Consonni (UAE Team ADQ) in Ses Salines.
The teams that have not travelled to the southern hemisphere for the Tour Down Under began their road racing seasons at the new Challenge Mallorca Femenina, which offers three one-day races held from Jan 20-22.
The first one-day race of three races was 127km from Felanitx to Colònia de Sant Jordi. The race offered three intermediate sprints and two category 4 ascents before a drop into the finish in Colònia de Sant Jordi.
The field was together for the first sprint in Ses Salines, won by Rüegg, who set the tone for the day's race.
Rotem Gafinovitz (Hess Cycling) was the first to launch a solo attack, but her efforts came to an end ahead of the first of two ascents where Alice Palazzi (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo) captured the full points over the top.
A breakaway formed mid-race with Giorgia Vettorello (Roland) and Laura Asencio (Ceratizit-WNT) surging off the front of the field. Vettorello secured the intermediate sprint points in Felanitx.
The move was short-lived, and Vettorello rejoined the field ahead of the 1.8km second climb. Although Asencio hung on a little longer and took full points over the top, she, too, was reeled in on the descent with 34km to go.
Inside 10km, riders from Proximus-Cyclis and Maxx-Solar Rose, respectively, attacked, but it was Movistar's lead-out for Sierra that held the field together in the closing kilometres.
There was no denying a group sprint, and it was who Rüegg powered over the line ahead of Sierra and Consonni to take a season-opening victory.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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