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May 2, 2024
Vuelta España Femenina by Carrefour.es (2.WWT) 2024 🇪🇸 – Stage 5 – Huesca – Alto del Fuerte Rapitán. Jaca : 113,9 km
Since its inaugural edition in 2015,
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May 2, 2024
Vuelta España Femenina by Carrefour.es (2.WWT) 2024 🇪🇸 – Stage 5 – Huesca – Alto del Fuerte Rapitán. Jaca : 113,9 km
Since its inaugural edition in 2015, the Vuelta Femenina has gone through many different iterations. It started out as a one-day race before transitioning into a two-, three-, four- and five-day stage race. Last year, the race was bumped up to seven days, moved from September to May and given a brand-new name – La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es. What’s more, the development continues with an extra day added again in 2024. With its move to May and added length, the race has established itself as a Grand Tour of the women’s calendar alongside the Giro d’Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the Vuelta Femenina is starting to attract a star-studded start list each year.
Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) won stage 5 of La Vuelta Femenina on the Fuerte Rapitán finishing climb, setting the pace from 2.1km to go and dropping riders one by one.
On the final kilometre, Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) were the last to give in, and Vollering powered ahead to win the stage by 28 seconds, with Kastelijn beating Longo Borghini to second place.
Vollering is also the new overall leader, with a 31-second lead on Longo Borghini.
“Last year, I had this beautiful jersey already, but I was wearing the UCI [Women’s WorldTour] jersey, so I had so many wins last year, but never in this pretty jersey. It was my goal for this season to win before the Dutch championships again, so I’m really happy that now I have a nice finish photo in this jersey. This red jersey is a really pretty one, and I hope I can keep it to the very end,” Vollering was happy to win in the Dutch champion’s jersey before exchanging it for the red jersey of the Vuelta Femenina GC leader.
Vollering led up the climb before distancing her nearest rivals, Kastelijn and Longo Borghini, to win solo.
“I just started to pace and felt really, really good. I tried to keep going because I felt Elisa was struggling a little bit in my wheel. I was like, ‘OK, then I just try to give it my very all to the very end, and I hope I can get already some time on her’. That worked out, so that’s really nice, and hopefully a few more nice days coming for our team,” Vollering described the finishing climb.
Results :
 2024 🇪🇸 - Stage 5 </strong> - Huesca - Alto del Fuerte Rapitán. Jaca : 113,9 km
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Since its inaugural edition in 2015, the Vuelta Femenina has gone through many different iterations. It started out as a one-day race before transitioning into a two-, three-, four- and five-day stage race. Last year, the race was bumped up to seven days, moved from September to May and given a brand-new name – La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es. What’s more, the development continues with an extra day added again in 2024. With its move to May and added length, the race has established itself as a Grand Tour of the women’s calendar alongside the Giro d’Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the Vuelta Femenina is starting to attract a star-studded start list each year.
Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) won stage 5 of La Vuelta Femenina on the Fuerte Rapitán finishing climb, setting the pace from 2.1km to go and dropping riders one by one.
On the final kilometre, Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) were the last to give in, and Vollering powered ahead to win the stage by 28 seconds, with Kastelijn beating Longo Borghini to second place.
Vollering is also the new overall leader, with a 31-second lead on Longo Borghini.
“Last year, I had this beautiful jersey already, but I was wearing the UCI [Women’s WorldTour] jersey, so I had so many wins last year, but never in this pretty jersey. It was my goal for this season to win before the Dutch championships again, so I’m really happy that now I have a nice finish photo in this jersey. This red jersey is a really pretty one, and I hope I can keep it to the very end,” Vollering was happy to win in the Dutch champion’s jersey before exchanging it for the red jersey of the Vuelta Femenina GC leader.
Vollering led up the climb before distancing her nearest rivals, Kastelijn and Longo Borghini, to win solo.
“I just started to pace and felt really, really good. I tried to keep going because I felt Elisa was struggling a little bit in my wheel. I was like, ‘OK, then I just try to give it my very all to the very end, and I hope I can get already some time on her’. That worked out, so that’s really nice, and hopefully a few more nice days coming for our team,” Vollering described the finishing climb.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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