Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 2021 – Stage 2 [FULL STAGE] (ladies) (spanish)

May 7, 2021

Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 2021 – Stage 2 – Castellón de la Plana – Vila-Real : 130 km

Setmana Ciclista Valenciana’s move from February to May will undoubtedly have some impact on its overall position and importance on the early-season calendar. It is no longer held in conjunction with pre-season training camps nor can it be used as preparation or a test ahead of bigger Spring Classics. There are some benefits to its move to May, however, and its position after the Spring Classics is when stage racing season normally begins. Setmana Ciclista Valenciana now offers some much needed racing days in May and it kicks off 12 days of racing in Spain.

Sandra Alonso (Bizkaia Durango) sprinted to victory at stage 2 of Setmana Ciclista Valenciana. The Spanish rider won the reduced group sprint ahead of her compatriot Sheyla Gutiérrez (Movistar) and Arianna Fidanza (Team BikeExchange) in Vila-Real.

Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) finished in the bunch and maintained her overall race lead heading into the third stage on Saturday.

How it unfolded

The second stage offered the field a 130km race between Castellon and Vila-Real. It was also another day of climbing with two main ascents: Alto Coronetes (62km), a 7.8km climb at 5 per cent average but with a max of 10 per cent, followed by Alto Salt del Cavall (71.6km), a 5.4km climb that only averaged 3.3 per cent but with sections as steep as 12 per cent.

The stage ended with an undulating final 40 kilometres to the finish line in Vila-Real.

An early breakaway emerged with Tatiana Guderzo (Ale BTC Ljubljana), Olivia Baril (Massi-Tactic), Katrine Aalerud and Paula Patiño (Movistar), Ane Santesteban (Team BikeExchange) and Omer Shapira (Canyon-SRAM), who gained a minute on the main field. But the front group reshuffled and then it all came back together with 110km to go.

Rally Cycling’s Krista Doebel-Hickok, who started the day 16th in the overall classification at 3:12 behind Van Vleuten, attacked just after the intermediate sprint at La Barona (103km to go) and created a small gap that bloomed to over three minutes.

Movistar led the front of the main field behind on the approach to the first ascent at Alto Coronetes, where Doebel-Hickok pushed her lead out to four minutes.

Behind the solo breakaway rider, the main field split into two groups separated by about 30 seconds, and with overall race leader Van Vleuten safely in the first chase group after the second and last ascent, Alto Salt del Cavall.

Movistar committed to the chase and slowly reeled in Doebel-Hickok, ending her solo breakaway with just five kilometres to the finish line. The Spanish outfit set up Gutiérrez for the finish, but it was Alonso who crossed the line first in the reduced bunch sprint.

Results :
1 Sandra Alonso Dominguez (Spa) Bizkaia-Durango 3:42:59
2 Sheyla Gutierrez Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team Women
3 Arianna Fidanza (Ita) Team BikeExchange
4 Laura Tomasi (Ita) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
5 Debora Silvestri (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
6 Noemi Rüegg (Swi) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling
7 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Canyon-SRAM Racing
8 Catalina Anais Soto Campos (Chi) NXTG Racing
9 Greta Marturano (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
10 Rasa Leleivyte (Ltu) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
11 Maaike Coljé (Ned) Massi Tactic Women Team
12 Giorgia Bariani (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
13 Severine Eraud (Fra) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling
14 Amelia Sharpe (GBr) NXTG Racing
15 Hannah Ludwig (Ger) Canyon-SRAM Racing
16 Olha Kulynych (Ukr) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
17 Julia Borgström (Swe) NXTG Racing
18 Spela Kern (Slo) Massi Tactic Women Team
19 Letizia Borghesi (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
20 Katie Clouse (USA) Rally Cycling
21 Sophie Wright (GBr) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
22 Annemiek van Vleuten (Ned) Movistar Team Women
23 Neve Bradbury (Aus) Canyon-SRAM Racing
24 Mavi Garcia (Spa) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
25 Ines Cantera Carrasco (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team
26 Idoia Eraso Lasa (Spa) Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
27 Sara Poidevin (Can) Rally Cycling
28 Katrine Aalerud (Nor) Movistar Team Women
29 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
30 Claire Steels (GBr) Sopela Women’s Team
31 Lucia Gonzalez Blanco (Spa) Bizkaia-Durango
32 Alice Towers (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur
33 Ane Santesteban Gonzalez (Spa) Team BikeExchange
34 Inga Cesuliene (Ltu) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
35 Yuliia Biriukova (Ukr) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
36 Anna Christian (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur
37 Omer Shapira (Isr) Canyon-SRAM Racing
38 Georgia Williams (NZl) Team BikeExchange
39 Nadine Michaela Gill (Ger) Bizkaia-Durango
40 Usoa Ostolaza Zabala (Spa) Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
41 Anastasiia Chursina (Rus) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
42 Vita Heine (Nor) Massi Tactic Women Team
43 Olivia Baril (Can) Massi Tactic Women Team
44 Janneke Ensing (Ned) Team BikeExchange
45 Mireia Benito Pellicer (Spa) Massi Tactic Women Team 0:00:06
46 Paula Patiño Bedoya (Col) Movistar Team Women
47 Lisa Klein (Ger) Canyon-SRAM Racing
48 Alicia Gonzalez Blanco (Spa) Movistar Team Women 0:00:13
49 Tereza Neumanová (Cze) Women Cycling Sport 0:00:20
50 Marta Romeu Solaz (Spa) VIB Sports 0:00:24
51 Krista Doebel-Hickok (USA) Rally Cycling 0:00:27
52 Giorgia Vettorello (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo 0:01:03
53 Malgorzata Jasinska (Pol) Women Cycling Sport
54 Amber Aernouts (Bel) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team 0:05:31
55 Emilie Fortin (Can) Bizkaia-Durango 0:09:51
56 Alice Barnes (GBr) Canyon-SRAM Racing
57 Susana Perez Conejero (Spa) Rio Miera-Cantabria Deporte 0:11:11
58 Fie Osterby (Den) Rio Miera-Cantabria Deporte
59 Urska Zigart (Slo) Team BikeExchange
60 Emma Grant (GBr) Massi Tactic Women Team
61 Sara Penton (Swe) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:12:13
62 April Tacey (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur
63 Gaia Masetti (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
64 Georgia Danford (NZl) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch
65 Elisa Dalla Valle (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
66 Sofia Rodriguez Revert (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team
67 Alessia Bulleri (Ita) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
68 Alessia Vigilia (Ita) Women Cycling Sport
69 Michelle Andres (Swi) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch
70 Annabel Fisher (GBr) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling
71 Nicole Steigenga (Ned) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
72 Christina Schweinberger (Aut) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
73 Nicole D’Agostin (Ita) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
74 Liliana Jesus (Por) Team Farto-BTC
75 Ariana Gilabert Vilaplana (Spa) Bizkaia-Durango
76 Emma Ortiz Bonilla (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team
77 Giulia Marchesini (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
78 Stella Nightingale (NZl) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch
79 Teniel Campbell (TTo) Team BikeExchange
80 Lija Laizane (Lat) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
81 Holly Breck (USA) Rally Cycling
82 Noemie Abgrall (Fra) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling
83 Agnieta Francke (Ned) Team Farto-BTC
84 Gloria Rodriguez Sanchez (Spa) Movistar Team Women 0:12:19
85 Finja Smekal (Ger) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:13:56
86 Leigh Ann Ganzar (USA) Rally Cycling
87 Valentina Scandolara (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
88 Heidi Franz (USA) Rally Cycling
89 Olivia Ray (NZl) Rally Cycling
90 Fabienne Buri (Swi) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch
91 Kathrin Schweinberger (Aut) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
92 Maryoly Sosa (Ven) VIB Sports
93 Gemma Sernissi (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano 0:20:37
94 Maria Martins (Por) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur
95 Mireia Trias Jordan (Spa) Massi Tactic Women Team
96 Kim Baptista (GBr) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
97 Jessica Allen (Aus) Team BikeExchange
98 Maeva Squiban (Fra) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling
99 Maria Banlles Santamaria (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team
100 Nofar Maoz (Isr) Women Cycling Sport 0:24:08
101 Elisabet Escursell Valero (Spa) Rio Miera-Cantabria Deporte 0:24:09
102 Elise Marie Olsen (Nor) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur
103 Minke Bakker (Ned) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
104 Anna Baidak (Rus) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
105 Sandra Moral Ventosinos (Spa) Team Farto-BTC
106 Natalia Saiz Sanchez (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team
107 Michela Balducci (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
108 Teresa Ripoll Sabate (Spa) Team Farto-BTC
109 Luciana Roland (Arg) Women Cycling Sport
110 Sara Bonillo Talens (Spa) Team Farto-BTC
111 Mylene de Zoete (Ned) NXTG Racing
112 Emily Wadsworth (GBr) NXTG Racing
113 Irantzu Beloki Arcelus (Spa) Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
114 Nicole Hanselmann (Swi) Women Cycling Sport
115 Maria del Pilar Jimenez Martinez (Spa) Team Farto-BTC
116 Enara Lopez Gallastegi (Spa) Team Farto-BTC

General Classification after Stage 2 :
1 Annemiek van Vleuten (Ned) Movistar Team Women 7:03:51
2 Mavi Garcia (Spa) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana 0:02:10
3 Katrine Aalerud (Nor) Movistar Team Women 0:02:27
4 Debora Silvestri (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo 0:02:31
5 Noemi Rüegg (Swi) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling
6 Greta Marturano (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
7 Hannah Ludwig (Ger) Canyon-SRAM Racing
8 Letizia Borghesi (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
9 Spela Kern (Slo) Massi Tactic Women Team
10 Neve Bradbury (Aus) Canyon-SRAM Racing
11 Omer Shapira (Isr) Canyon-SRAM Racing
12 Janneke Ensing (Ned) Team BikeExchange
13 Sandra Alonso Dominguez (Spa) Bizkaia-Durango 0:03:11
14 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Canyon-SRAM Racing
15 Severine Eraud (Fra) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling 0:03:13
16 Olha Kulynych (Ukr) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
17 Rasa Leleivyte (Ltu) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano 0:03:14
18 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
19 Idoia Eraso Lasa (Spa) Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
20 Ines Cantera Carrasco (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team
21 Lucia Gonzalez Blanco (Spa) Bizkaia-Durango
22 Nadine Michaela Gill (Ger) Bizkaia-Durango
23 Ane Santesteban Gonzalez (Spa) Team BikeExchange
24 Inga Cesuliene (Ltu) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
25 Yuliia Biriukova (Ukr) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
26 Anna Christian (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur
27 Georgia Williams (NZl) Team BikeExchange
28 Vita Heine (Nor) Massi Tactic Women Team
29 Paula Patiño Bedoya (Col) Movistar Team Women 0:03:19
30 Mireia Benito Pellicer (Spa) Massi Tactic Women Team 0:03:20
31 Giorgia Bariani (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo 0:03:22
32 Tereza Neumanová (Cze) Women Cycling Sport 0:03:31
33 Krista Doebel-Hickok (USA) Rally Cycling 0:03:39
34 Malgorzata Jasinska (Pol) Women Cycling Sport 0:04:17
35 Arianna Fidanza (Ita) Team BikeExchange 0:05:27
36 Maaike Coljé (Ned) Massi Tactic Women Team
37 Amelia Sharpe (GBr) NXTG Racing
38 Julia Borgström (Swe) NXTG Racing
39 Katie Clouse (USA) Rally Cycling
40 Sophie Wright (GBr) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana 0:06:35
41 Alice Towers (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur
42 Anastasiia Chursina (Rus) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana
43 Laura Tomasi (Ita) Ale’ BTC Ljubljana 0:06:42
44 Olivia Baril (Can) Massi Tactic Women Team 0:07:26
45 Lisa Klein (Ger) Canyon-SRAM Racing 0:07:32
46 Giorgia Vettorello (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo 0:07:35
47 Alicia Gonzalez Blanco (Spa) Movistar Team Women 0:07:39
48 Marta Romeu Solaz (Spa) VIB Sports 0:07:50
49 Usoa Ostolaza Zabala (Spa) Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi 0:09:16
50 Claire Steels (GBr) Sopela Women’s Team 0:09:49
51 Sara Poidevin (Can) Rally Cycling
52 Amber Aernouts (Bel) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team 0:10:58
53 Alice Barnes (GBr) Canyon-SRAM Racing 0:13:05
54 Sheyla Gutierrez Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team Women 0:16:22
55 Fie Osterby (Den) Rio Miera-Cantabria Deporte 0:16:38
56 Emma Grant (GBr) Massi Tactic Women Team
57 Susana Perez Conejero (Spa) Rio Miera-Cantabria Deporte 0:17:46
58 Sara Penton (Swe) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:18:48
59 Gaia Masetti (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
60 Alessia Vigilia (Ita) Women Cycling Sport 0:18:55
61 Sofia Rodriguez Revert (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team 0:19:39
62 Nicole Steigenga (Ned) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
63 Christina Schweinberger (Aut) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team
64 Agnieta Francke (Ned) Team Farto-BTC
65 Teniel Campbell (TTo) Team BikeExchange
66 Emilie Fortin (Can) Bizkaia-Durango 0:19:40
67 Urska Zigart (Slo) Team BikeExchange 0:21:00
68 Michelle Andres (Swi) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch 0:22:02
69 Giulia Marchesini (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
70 Holly Breck (USA) Rally Cycling
71 Catalina Anais Soto Campos (Chi) NXTG Racing 0:22:09
72 Annabel Fisher (GBr) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling 0:23:40
73 Nicole D’Agostin (Ita) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
74 Olivia Ray (NZl) Rally Cycling 0:23:45
75 Leigh Ann Ganzar (USA) Rally Cycling
76 Georgia Danford (NZl) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch 0:24:09
77 Alessia Bulleri (Ita) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
78 Elisa Dalla Valle (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
79 Lija Laizane (Lat) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa
80 Kathrin Schweinberger (Aut) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team 0:25:49
81 Heidi Franz (USA) Rally Cycling 0:25:52
82 Valentina Scandolara (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
83 Fabienne Buri (Swi) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch
84 Emma Ortiz Bonilla (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team 0:29:19
85 April Tacey (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:29:33
86 Noemie Abgrall (Fra) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling 0:29:38
87 Gloria Rodriguez Sanchez (Spa) Movistar Team Women 0:29:44
88 Maeva Squiban (Fra) Stade Rochelais Charente-Maritime Women Cycling 0:30:26
89 Anna Baidak (Rus) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa 0:30:45
90 Liliana Jesus (Por) Team Farto-BTC 0:32:22
91 Ariana Gilabert Vilaplana (Spa) Bizkaia-Durango
92 Maria Martins (Por) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:32:31
93 Jessica Allen (Aus) Team BikeExchange 0:32:33
94 Gemma Sernissi (Ita) Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
95 Elise Marie Olsen (Nor) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:33:58
96 Elisabet Escursell Valero (Spa) Rio Miera-Cantabria Deporte
97 Finja Smekal (Ger) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:34:05
98 Stella Nightingale (NZl) Andy Schleck-CP NVST-Immo Losch 0:34:22
99 Sandra Moral Ventosinos (Spa) Team Farto-BTC 0:35:36
100 Maryoly Sosa (Ven) VIB Sports 0:36:03
101 Michela Balducci (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo 0:36:05
102 Nofar Maoz (Isr) Women Cycling Sport 0:37:21
103 Kim Baptista (GBr) Eneicat-RBH Global-Martin Villa 0:38:00
104 Mireia Trias Jordan (Spa) Massi Tactic Women Team 0:38:02
105 Maria Banlles Santamaria (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team 0:44:03
106 Irantzu Beloki Arcelus (Spa) Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi 0:44:18
107 Maria del Pilar Jimenez Martinez (Spa) Team Farto-BTC
108 Minke Bakker (Ned) Doltcini-Van Eyck-Proximus Continental Team 0:46:18
109 Luciana Roland (Arg) Women Cycling Sport
110 Teresa Ripoll Sabate (Spa) Team Farto-BTC
111 Sara Bonillo Talens (Spa) Team Farto-BTC
112 Mylene de Zoete (Ned) NXTG Racing
113 Emily Wadsworth (GBr) NXTG Racing
114 Enara Lopez Gallastegi (Spa) Team Farto-BTC 0:46:20
115 Natalia Saiz Sanchez (Spa) Sopela Women’s Team 0:47:35
116 Nicole Hanselmann (Swi) Women Cycling Sport 0:52:07