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Women’s Tour cycling: Lorena Wiebes sustains remarkable run of wins

08-Jun-2022 16:09:56 | The Guardian

• Dutch rider makes it back-to-back stage victories in race
• Wiebes helped by team to recover after being dropped

Lorena Wiebes claimed the leader’s yellow jersey by sprinting to a second successive victory on stage three of the Women’s Tour.

The Dutch rider and pre-race favourite, who has bounced back from her opening-day crash in impressive fashion, took advantage of English Team DSM teammate Pfeiffer Georgi’s lead-out to cross the line first in Gloucester. But the 23-year-old had to do things the hard way, battling back from being dropped by the peloton on an uncategorised climb with 20km of the 107.9km stage from Tewkesbury remaining, to rejoin the front group with 9km to go.