The Excursion of Chongming Island is legendary for being a sprinters’ paradise because the race is nearly utterly flat, and prefer in maximum years, the 2023 version featured three-bunch sprints on as many phases.
Within the ultimate level 3, general victory was once nonetheless at the line and fiercely fought for. We’ve analysed the dash that received Chiara Consonni (UAE Crew ADQ) the level and the GC.
Going into the left-hand nook onto the three-kilometre completing immediately, Uno-X Professional Biking Crew had taken the entrance with Rebecca Koerner and Wilma Olausson forward of Anniina Ahtosalo who would win the white U23 jersey if she may just get any bonus seconds at the end line.
The Scandinavian crew was once first during the flip, however then Thi That Nguyen (Israel-Premier Tech Roland) got here previous them on their proper with a three-rider educate from Human Powered Well being on her wheel.
The orange-clad took over when Nguyen dropped again; then a Li Ning Big name Girls rider made a curious assault down the left-hand aspect with 2.5km to head. She did organize to get quite in entrance of the Human Powered Well being educate (however was once basically two lanes to their left), then she sat up once more and dropped again during the ranks.
Olausson was once main the race with two kilometres to head whilst Ahtosalo was once in fourth place with Marit Raaijmakers and Marjolein van’t Geloof (each Human Powered Well being) in between. Their sprinter Daria Pikulik was once on Ahtosalo’s wheel, Chang Yue (China nationwide crew) was once on Ahtosalo’s left with Alice Sharpe and Maggie Coles-Lyster (each Israel-Premier Tech) bobbing up beside her whilst Marta Lach and Martina Fidanza (each Ceratizit-WNT) had been shifting up at the proper aspect. Dressed in the fairway jersey, Consonni was once on Fidanza’s wheel.
Olausson swung off about 1.2km from the end line, and Raaijmakers introduced the peloton into the general kilometre. The Ceratizit-WNT educate handed her and Van’t Geloof, placing Fidanza into 2d wheel with Consonni at the back of her.
Ahtosalo had opted to drop again just a little and sat simply at the back of and to the left of Consonni whilst a UAE Crew ADQ rider acted as sweeper subsequent to the Finnish champion, combating Pikulik from sitting on Consonni’s wheel.
Van’t Geloof attempted her best possible however led out the dash extra for Sharpe and Coles-Lyster than for her personal sprinter, who was once moderately boxed in additional to the appropriate. Fidanza and Ahtosalo introduced their sprints nearly concurrently. At the left aspect of the street, level 2 winner Hanna Tserakh (Li Ning Big name Girls) additionally went very early; she had numerous floor to make up as her crew hadn’t controlled to put her in addition to yesterday.
At the ultimate 100 metres, Consonni got here previous Fidanza on her proper and took the lead whilst Ahtosalo slotted in at the back of Fidanza for a little while, the use of the slipstream to release a 2d kick against the road. Pikulik and Coles-Lyster had been cranking up the rate at the back of Consonni – but if Pikulik squeezed thru to begin to pull along Consonni between the fairway jersey and the boundaries, Coles-Lyster needed to in brief forestall pedalling and restart her dash, going to the left of Consonni’s rear wheel as a substitute. Pikulik herself additionally ignored two pedal strokes about 50 metres from the road as there was once no room between Consonni and the boundaries to return thru.
None of this seemed worthy of additional investigation or perhaps a relegation as neither Consonni nor Pikulik veered off their sprinting lane, the small deviations being defined by means of the large forces the riders put onto the pedals in a mass dash.
The Polish sprinter in the end discovered an opening when Consonni moved quite left once more and nearly handed her along with her last 9 pedal strokes, completing about two-thirds of a motorbike period at the back of and simply beating Fidanza to 2d position.
Ahtosalo was once fourth, part a motorbike period additional again, whilst Coles-Lyster completed 5th, and Rachele Barbieri (Liv Racing TeqFind) was once 6th. After a small hole, Tserakh was once ‘best possible of the remaining’ in 7th position.