Having received on the opening stage of the Tour de Suisse Girls, Demi Vollering made it two in a row, profitable the stage 2 mountain time trial on the identical ultimate climb to Villars-sur-Ollon the place she took the victory on stage 1.
The SD Worx-Protime rider produced yet one more spectacular efficiency to place much more time into all of her rivals within the general standings. Vollering now leads the final classification by almost a minute and a half over Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek), who completed 18 seconds down in second place on the stage.
Vollering didn’t have all of it her personal manner in the course of the time trial although, as she was down at each of the intermediate splits. Nonetheless, she elevated her effort on the latter half of the climb, overturning her deficit and displaying the dominance that she displayed on the identical climb on the opening stage.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The course began on the UCI headquarters in Aigle, with the riders rolling off the ramp right into a flat and quick begin earlier than the primary intermediate break up. After the time verify, the street started to rise because the climb to Villars-sur-Ollon started.
A lot of those that began on the time trial bike opted for a change on the foot of the climb, with mechanics almost leaping out of shifting workforce vehicles to seize their riders’ street bikes from the roof whereas attempting to lose as little time as doable.
The riders seemed to tempo the early a part of the climb as a way to preserve some vitality in reserve for the ultimate kilometres, with the second intermediate break up coming simply after the midway level on the climb.
The issue of the stage was clear to see when the riders reached the end, with a lot of them sitting on the bottom for a very long time in an try to get their breath again. It was uphill all the best way to the road and the riders left every part out on the street, battling for each second.
There have been a number of early benchmarks set within the first half of the stage, nevertheless it was not till Brodie Chapman (Lidl-Trek) entered the recent seat that the aggressive occasions started to be set, as she beat the earlier greatest time by two minutes.
Inside a couple of minutes, Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM), Juliette Labous (dsm-firmenich PostNL), Kim Cadzow (EF Training-Cannondale) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) all set new quickest occasions, however with Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) nonetheless but to reach on the end the stage winner was nonetheless doubtful.
Vollering had been down on Longo Borghini on the two intermediate splits, however her effort within the closing kilometres noticed her common over 20km/h within the latter half of the climb on a number of the steepest slopes, which allowed the Dutch rider to overturn her deficit to the Italian and take the stage victory.
Longo Borghini’s sturdy outcome noticed her transfer as much as second place within the general standings forward of her teammate Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek), who completed in sixth place on the stage. Their different teammates Brodie Chapman and Amanda Spratt additionally moved up within the basic classification, placing the workforce in a superb place for the approaching levels.
RESULTS: TOUR DE SUISSE WOMEN 2024, STAGE TWO, AIGLE › VILLARS-SUR-OLLON (15.7KM)
1. Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime, in 39:47
2. Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Lidl-Trek, +18s
3. Kim Cadzow (NZl) EF Training-Cannondale, +26s
4. Juliette Labous (Fra) dsm-firmenich PostNL, +47s
5. Antonia Niedermaier (Ger) Canyon-SRAM, +1:01
6. Gaia Realini (Ita) Lidl-Trek, +1:02
7. Brodie Chapman (Aus) Lidl-Trek, +1:24
8. Amanda Spratt (Aus) Lidl-Trek, +1:50
9. Neve Bradbury (Aus) Canyon-SRAM, +2:19
10. Femke de Vries (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike, +2:36
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE TWO
1. Demi Vollering (Ned) SD Worx-Protime, in 2:26:47
2. Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Lidl-Trek, 1:26
3. Gaia Realini (Ita) Lidl-Trek, 1:28
4. Kim Cadzow (NZl) EF Training-Cannondale, 1:39
5. Juliette Labous (Fra) dsm-firmenich PostNL, 2:14
6. Antonia Niedermaier (Ger) Canyon-SRAM, 2:40
7. Amanda Spratt (Aus) Lidl-Trek, 3:28
8. Brodie Chapman (Aus) Lidl-Trek, 3:41
9. Neve Bradbury (Aus) Canyon-SRAM, 3:45
10. Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM, 4:13
