Best friend Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) claimed the primary win of the season for her new workforce FDJ-Suez, charging around the line forward of Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM) with an confident dash on the first version of the ladies’s 1.1 ranked ladies’s Surf Coast Vintage – a 118km mid-week race to kick off the motion earlier than the Ladies’s WorldTour racing on the Cadel Evans Nice Ocean Street Race unfolds on Saturday.
The rider from New Zealand had already confirmed in South Australia that she had the shape, profitable the bunch dash on degree 1 of the Santos Excursion Down Below however having to accept 2d because it came around the road in the back of a solo damage. The rider wanted the chance to ship when the highest step used to be at stake. Wednesday grew to become out to be her day.
“I felt really, really strong today,” stated Wollaston on the finish of the race which began in Lorne with a protracted climb after which additionally ended at the coast at Torquay after looping inland. “In the last few races maybe I’ve struggled mentally, I think, to really stay present in the race and stay attentive and be confident enough that I’m good enough to be there in the final.
“Nowadays, once I began mountaineering, I knew I had a excellent shot on the win.”
It was a clear cut victory for Wollaston, ahead of Dygert but the battle for third was tight, with Georgia Baker (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) making it to the podium steps for a second time this week after having come second at the 1.Pro Schwalbe One Day Classic in Adelaide. The winner of that race, Clara Copponi (Lidl-Trek), was fourth this time.
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