Preview: Gracia-Orlova
by Monty. on Apr 27, 2010 9:07 PM EDT
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Ever woken up in the morning thinking "Oh no, not another little stage race"? Probably not if you follow women’s racing because this is the first one since the Tour of the Ardeche last September, a whole seven months ago. But even so, anyone expecting a gentle little race to shake out the legs should beware because Gracia Orlova is a vicious little beast; while the stages may be short, the profiles are sharp.
Orlova is a small town at the far eastern end of the Czech Republic which has been hosting a top level women’s stage race every year since 1987 (and has no connection to Lyubov Orlova, Stalin’s favourite actress). That makes Gracia Orlova the third oldest race on the current calendar, behind only the Tour de l’Aude and the Thuringen Rundfahrt. It may not be as well known as those races, possibly because the organisers never seem to have registered it at the highest level with the UCI, and it always seems to have to compete with other races run at the same time for the best riders, but its list of winners is still pretty respectable, including multiple wins from Hanka Kupfernagel, Nicole Brandli and Judith Arndt. The course itself doesn’t change much. In recent years it has settled down to a regular pattern of five stages in four days, including a short trip over the border to nearby Poland, and as the race director Miroslav Kolacek says "After all, routes states same as a last year, they will lead through beautiful nature with painfull hills varied with plains." Or in English "Translator? We don’t need no stinking translator." Actually that download gives you a big pdf complete with maps, profiles, race regulations, prize monies and lots more. In both Czech and I’ve-got-a-mate-who-studied-a-bit-of-English.
If you want to get an idea of the race then start with Greasemonkey Benny’s reports from 2007, parts one and two, and videos teasers, parts one and two. Then if you want more then go here to watch a half hour programme of the highlights of last year’s race (Czech women’s names are inflected, hence Vos-ova, Worrack-ova and so on). But Kolacek is more reassuring over the state of the roads this year "We dealed problems with bad road conditions after long winter, route planning atc." I thought the roads looked OK last year, but that might have been selective editing.
The field is weakened by a biggish clash in choice of races this weekend, not so much Friday’s GP de Suisse time trial but more because there are double headers in both Luxembourg (GP Elsy Jacobs and GP Mameranus) and Italy (trofeo GFM Meccanica and the new Muri Fermani, the Italian Flanders), and there are only five familiar UCI trade teams starting, Team Hitec Products, Team System Data (although Rachel Neylan expects to be riding in Luxembourg), SC Michela Fanini (led by Jeannie Longo’s long-time training partner, Edwige Pitel), Nederland Bloeit, and Fenixs – Petrogradets (Svetlana Boubnenkova is still one to watch, and Irina Molicheva was in the lead group at the end of the Trofeo Binda when she crashed out with Emma Pooley), but of those the Bloeit are the best by a wide margin (compare that to last year when Nurnberger, Columbia, Bigla, DSB, Selle Italia, Red Sun and Leontien turned up), but that doesn’t mean that Vos just has to turn up to win. Riders turning out in national squads include Nicole Cooke for GB (supported by both Emma and Laura Trott), Shelley Evans for the USA (plus young Coryn Rivera), who may suffer a bit with the hills, and a strongish Russina front line of Olga Zabelinskaya, Julia Martissova and national TT champ Tatiana Antoshina.
Here’s a summary of the stages:
Stage: 1 - 29 April – Detmarovice - Stramberk, 105.50 km
Stage: 2 - 30 April - Lichnov, 125.80 km
Stage: 3 - 1 May - Kuznia Raciborska(Poland) TT, 18.00 km
Stage: 4 - 1 May - Czechowice-Dziedzice(Poland), 62.10 km (5 lap city centre race)
Stage: 5 - 2 May - Orlová, 100.20 km (6 lap city centre race on a figure-of-eight circuit)
That looks easy enough, doesn’t it. Now look at the stage profiles.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3 Time Trial
Stage 5
I make that three out of four stages finishing uphill, with gradients of 10%, 15% and 10%. Anyone who wants maps should either download the race manual or go to the main site(there's an "English" option which sort of gives you an English version). This looks like the local TV station which may have something helpful (no, I don't read Czech either - Just click on things that look like they might be relevant). We’ll try and keep track of results and any possible video in the comments.
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Actually....
First stage race was at Redlands….Redlands Bicycle Classic….in March…won by Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia.
….and the women are now at Silver City, NM riding the Tour of Gila,
Would you accept
first stage race not on some inconsequential little island 2000 miles away from anywhere important? But then there’s the Tour of NZ too. How about first stage race likely to be won by a proper stage race sort of winner?
hahahaha....yup!
….though the Tour of NZ was a “proper” stage race (won by Shelley Evans-USA and Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12) as are the American stages races….just saying (grin)
Oh, Qatar?
Personally I think Qatar counts as little as the TDU for the men (or Qatar/Oman for the men, for that matter) – but it was won by Wild, who’s a proper stage race sort of winner?
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 28, 2010 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions
All right... all right...
but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order…what have the Romans done for us?
As they say.
Loved Life of Brian
Is that why you’re named Monty?
by AdelaideFatboy on Apr 29, 2010 7:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Me?
a miserable git in real life. What exactly is the bright side?
Aye, who'd 'ave thought 20 year a go we'd be sitting here drinking Chatteley-
Chatterley? …We were looky to ‘ave the price of a coop o’ tea!
by AdelaideFatboy on Apr 30, 2010 7:32 AM EDT up reply actions
It's funny that with so many women's races collapsing
we’re suddently into a really weird decision-making period. Riders having to decide between Gracia-Orlova and Elsy Jacobs, and next week the Congming Island WC race v. the Tour de l’Aude… There are so few races on the women’s calendar, it’s craziness that these ones are overlapping so much…
anyway… great preview as ever, thankyou!
It'll be interesting to see
who flies out to China. The women’s teams don’t have to make the same commitment to races that the ProTour teams do.
That would be crazier than making the men ride everything
Which is mad enough…. I mean, if it’s hard enough to see what benefits Euro- or Basque-only sponsored teams will get out of flying halfway round the world, there’s no way the women’s teams, so many of which seem to be digging down the back of the sofa to scratch together their funding, should be pulled into that mess. I’m so annoyed over ChongMing Island v l’Aude, decision. I’m betting that RedSun, Bloeit and Lotto will have made a deal with each other to not go. I’m surprised that Arndt and Teutenberg seem to be going for HTC. I don’t know when teams have to confirm they’re going or not, but according to their own startlist Cervélo aren’t going (although the Cycling Fever startlist has both Cervélo and RedSun there, though no named riders. Cervélo have enough to send a B-team if they want, but l’Aude is one of the goals their riders have talked about)
Bottom line is, I’d be so annoyed if this ended up being the decisive race, given the massive disparity in team funding between teams…. Although if it pushed eg Arndt up the WC standings, it would make it competitive in a fun way (although poor HTC really haven’t been having the best season…. if the only way they could win a WC round was through everyone else being in Europe, it might be a tad embarrassing)
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 28, 2010 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
It's not necessarily an either or
Vicki Whitelaw is flying out to do Chongming with the Aussie national team before coming back to ride l’Aude with Lotto. So from that I guess that Lotto aren’t bothering with the long trip, even though Grace Verbeke’s doing so well in the year long standings.
But the jetlag would be a problem, no?
Plus the expense…. this is where having riders moonlighting on their national teams is a really good thing, and Whitelaw is far too tough for such little things as jetlag – but she’s a special case, no?
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 28, 2010 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
The one Euro squad I can remember contesting the Tour of NZ
was Lotto, but they did it with their southern hemisphere squad of Aussies and South Africans, and got Greasemonkey Benny (whom I believe has gone back home to NZ permanently) to DS.
I don’t know why they made that race part of the World Cup. It would probably do far better if it linked in to the Australian season. And if their website is that poor then chances are we won’t even see any photos, let alone video
It's a bit like the way Valladolid WC conflicts with the Liberty Classic
Yeah, I know jetlag is possibly worse getting back from the USA in time for Emakumeen Bira, which is such a fun race full of mad climbs that unless you were an American rider, or HTC, you’d probably want to be focusing on that, but still….
See, here’s where the UCI could be really useful if it wanted – helping to promote the women’s side by working with race organisers to maximise the opportunities of the calendar.
The more I look at GP Elsy Jacobs, the more I think that would make the better WC round than China. Especially the link to the first ever World Champ, and the face from what I can tell, it’s all about the breakaways….
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 28, 2010 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions
New Zealand hasn't had a World Cup since Australia had one in Geelong
That was in 2008, but there are some moves to get the World cup back to Australia to combine it with the Snowy Mountains Tour in New South Wales and one in New Zealand again
by AdelaideFatboy on Apr 29, 2010 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions
That would be excellent
If I were the UCI, I’d have a few races before the World Champs, for fun and for acclimitization. Maybe have the last World Cup round 2 weeks before, in the Champs country. Globalisation, plus giving the local sports iorganisations the chance to make it all festive
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 29, 2010 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't see why everyone feels the need to connect it to the European season
The Australian summer (European winter) season is pretty good, the South African one likewise, I presume something goes on in China/Hong Kong, because I don’t know what the Giant team does with itself otherwise, so why not develop that and try to encourage some of the Europeans to come over for a couple of months, rather than dragging people so far for a couple of days racing just as the season starts to get going.
I guess that conflicts with 'Cross and Track tho'
Not that the UCI care about conflicting track and road, what with scheduling the Track World Champs opposite the first round of the road world cup… Marianne interviewed that she’s back to track this winter, with her eye on the omnium and team pursuit in the Olympics… I get that it’s either/or with ’Cross, but crazy that it means the road is difficult too…
(Mind you, trackies have what, 4 UCI World Cups, which they only need to ride 1 of, then they can choose to ride 6-days, or Revolution meets, but it’s hardly as arduous a season as ‘Cross… so maybe it wouldn’t be so hard to combine, especially with the Aussie round of the track World Cup)
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 29, 2010 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Anyway, Grace is doing so well, she can afford to skip one round
I can completely see Grace, Emma and Marianne checking out each others’ plans – “I won’t go if you don’t”!
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 28, 2010 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Lotto might not be going
but Gilmore is riding in China!
by AdelaideFatboy on Apr 29, 2010 7:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Huh
I’m foursquare in favor of an eventual transition to a global calendar. Top racers don’t have to race everything. Just the top races. Which are preferably on every continent. More travel budget? So what? Expands the reach of the sponsors. I’d rather be sponsored by HTC or Vodafone or Lenovo than Milram. I’m apparently in a very tiny minority on this, but I really think it’s the way forward to the big leagues.
Tour of Gila update....Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12) won stage 1
On the men’s side Levi won.
Cath Cheatley a kiwi (Colavita) came 2nd
and on the same day her Colavita team mate and fellow kiwi Rushlee Buchanan won the Beaufort Memorial Classic in Speedweek
by AdelaideFatboy on Apr 29, 2010 8:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Stage 1 - 1. Marianne Vos, 2. Nicole Cooke, 3. Annemiek Van Vleuten
or so I’m told
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 29, 2010 12:52 PM EDT reply actions
Yes, by Vos..
Today first stage of Gracia-Orlova. Race was not spectacular, but a nice uphill finish with cobbles though. 1. me 2. Cooke 3. Van Vleuten:-)
Little Trott is young even for Team GB
She only turned 18 last week – on the day she won the Borsele stage.
It’s great there’s so much young talent, but there’s a part of me wondering why she’s not in school!
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 29, 2010 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Check the Giro Trentino Donne profiles
As pointed out to me by the person behind the excellent Cycling Donne youtube stream…
I'm glad other people upload stuff to YouTube
I tried it once and I couldn’t believe how long it took, what with editing, cutting into chunks less than 10 minutes long, re-encoding so that it would upload in under a week, and so on. I don’t get how people can do all that then have it taken down a couple of weeks later.
There used to be a lot more up there in the past....
But still, it’s great people do it
by Sarah Connolly on Apr 29, 2010 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Stage 2 results out
go here for a pdf:
1.. 58 . NED19821008 VAN VLEUTEN Annemie ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . 3: 35 : 27 + 00 : 00 10
2.. 59 . NED19870513 VOS Marianne . . . . . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . 3: 35 : 27 + 00 : 00 6
3.. 52 . GBR19830413 COOKE Nicole . . . . . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . . 3: 47 : 45 + 12 : 18 4
4.. 73 . RUS19820727 ANTOSHINA Tatiana . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . . 3: 47 : 50 + 12 : 23
5.. 18 . RUS19880916 BURCHENKOVA Alexand FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . . 3: 47 : 52 + 12 : 25
6.. 10 . UKR19751211 VYSOTSKA Ievgenia . . . . UKR Ukraian national . . . . . . . . 3: 47 : 57 + 12 : 30
7.. 82 . NOR19870615 WAERSTED Fröydis . . . . . HPU Hitec products UCK . . . . . 3: 48 : 12 + 12 : 45
8.. 19 . RUS19730102 BOUBNENKOVA Svetlan FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . 3: 51 : 08 + 15 : 41 2
9.. 81 . NOR19870831 SAASTAD Kristine . . . . . . HPU Hitec products UCK . . . . . 3: 51 : 08 + 15 : 41
10.. 103 . AUT19831110 PINTARELLI Daniela . . . AUT Austrian national . . . . . . . . 3: 51 : 11 + 15 : 44
The gaps get bigger from here on, but that looks like the Bloeit can’t be beaten. Current top 10 GC:
1 . 59 . NED19870513 VOS Marianne . . . . . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 43 : 31 + 00 : 00
2 . 58 . NED19821008 VAN VLEUTEN AnnemiekARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 43 : 40 + 00 : 09
3 . 52 . GBR19830413 COOKE Nicole . . . . . . . . . .GBR Great Britain national . . . . . . . . 6: 55 : 58 + 12 : 27
4 . 18 . RUS19880916 BURCHENKOVA Alexand FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . . . . . 6: 56 : 28 + 12 : 57
5 . 10 . UKR19751211 VYSOTSKA Ievgenia . . . . UKR Ukraian national . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 56 : 33 + 13 : 02
6 . 73 . RUS19820727 ANTOSHINA Tatiana . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 56 : 42 + 13 : 11
7 . 82 . NOR19870615 WAERSTED Fröydis . . . . . HPU Hitec products UCK . . . . . . . . . 6: 57 : 04 + 13 : 33
8 . 19 . RUS19730102 BOUBNENKOVA Svetlan FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . . . . . 6: 59 : 34 + 16 : 03
9 . 92 . SWE19750606 STENERHAG Jannie . . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 59 : 47 + 16 : 16
10 . 93 . SWE19821114 OLSSON Madelene . . . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 59 : 47 + 16 : 16
Burchenkova crept in to CQ’s top 50 last year, largely on performances like this in lower ranked stage races. Tatiana Antoshina is the Russian TT champ so should be able to bump herself up a couple of places tomorrow, but otherwise it looks like the podium is already settled. I wonder how Vos and van Vleuten managed to get away together.
An when I say go here
(Resized)
the course passes through the town
and the country
The finish line at teh top of a cobbled climb:
and the podium, complete with gold, silver and bronze pedestals.
How on earth *did* they get TWELVE MINUTES?????
I am a monster Vos fangirl, but that’s insane, even for her
by Sarah Connolly on May 2, 2010 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Stage 2 photo
(straight from the tourist board)
A couple of results coming through on Twitter
Emma, the big Trott won the morning time trial, while the afternoon circuit top three was Vos, Cooke, Markerink. That looks like every single podium so far has been two Bloeits and a Brit.
The organisers have published the full results now
Stage 3 (pdf)
1. . . 53 . GBR19891224 TROTT Emma . . . . . . . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . 0: 25 : 59(. 48) + 00 : 00
2. . . 58 . NED19821008 VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . 0: 26 : 14(. 15) + 00 : 15
3. . . 59 . NED19870513 VOS Marianne . . . . . . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . 0: 26 : 14(. 23) + 00 : 15
4. . . 73 . RUS19820727 ANTOSHINA Tatiana . . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . 0: 26 : 24(. 86) + 00 : 25
5. . . 50 . GBR19900120 COLCLOUGH Katie . . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . 0: 26 : 33(. 99) + 00 : 34
6. . . 74 . RUS19760615 MARTISOVA Yulia . . . . . . .RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . 0: 26 : 34(. 13) + 00 : 35
7. . . 54 . GBR19920424 TROTT Laura . . . . . . . . . . . .GBR Great Britain national . . . 0: 26 : 35(. 56) + 00 : 36
8. . . 45 . BEL19881209 BRULEE Latoya . . . . . . . . . . BEL Belgian national . . . . . . . . 0: 26 : 48(. 84) + 00 : 49
9. . . 92 . SWE19750606 STENERHAG Jannie . . . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . 0: 26 : 49(. 83) + 00 : 50
10. . . 18 . RUS19880916 BURCHENKOVA Alexandr FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . 0: 26 : 56(. 74) + 00 : 57
so Annemiek van Vleuten beat Vos by 0.08s, which suits the team perfectly: share the honours but leave Vos on top. The GB kids did remarkably well with Hannah Mayho in 19th positioner their worst finisher.
1.. 59 . NED19870513 VOS Marianne . . . . . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00 6
2.. 52 . GBR19830413 COOKE Nicole . . . . . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00 4
3.. 56 . NED19851214 MARKERINK Loes . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00 2
4.. 74 . RUS19760615 MARTISOVA Yulia . . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00 3
5.. 91 . SWE19870814 LINDBERG Marie . . . . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00 2
6.. 92 . SWE19750606 STENERHAG Jannie . . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00
7.. 68 . GER19830722 GEBHARDT Elke . . . . . . . GER German national . . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00
8.. 106 . AUT19930511 PERCHTOLD Christina . . AUT Austrian national . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00
9.. 39 . GER19891212 ZWICK Martina . . . . . . . . MX2 MIX HAIBIKE-Rügen/Sac 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00
10.. 15 . USA19920826 RIVERA Coryn . . . . . . . . . USA USA national . . . . . . . . . . . 1: 29 : 31 + 00 : 00
Flat stage, bunch sprint, the two best sprinters get 1 and 2, move along, nothing to see here.
Current GC
1 . 59 . NED19870513 VOS Marianne . . . . . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: 39 : 10 + 00 : 00
2 . 58 . NED19821008 VAN VLEUTEN AnnemiekARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: 39 : 25 + 00 : 15
3 . 73 . RUS19820727 ANTOSHINA Tatiana . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: 52 : 37 + 13 : 27
4 . 52 . GBR19830413 COOKE Nicole . . . . . . . . . .GBR Great Britain national . . . . . . . . 8: 52 : 41 + 13 : 31
5 . 18 . RUS19880916 BURCHENKOVA Alexand FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . . . . . 8: 52 : 55 + 13 : 45
6 . 10 . UKR19751211 VYSOTSKA Ievgenia . . . . UKR Ukraian national . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: 54 : 01 + 14 : 51
7 . 74 . RUS19760615 MARTISOVA Yulia . . . . . .RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: 55 : 55 + 16 : 45
8 . 92 . SWE19750606 STENERHAG Jannie . . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: 56 : 07 + 16 : 57
9 . 82 . NOR19870615 WAERSTED Fröydis . . . . . HPU Hitec products UCK . . . . . . . . . 8: 56 : 12 + 17 : 02
10 . 50 . GBR19900120 COLCLOUGH Katie . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . . . . . . 8: 56 : 31 + 17 : 21
That TT bumped Tatiana Antoshina (Bridie’s Russian roommate, if you read her posts over at SBS) above Nicole Cooke, but tomorrow’s uphill finish plus the bonus seconds on offer should switch them back again.
Very nice for Emma Trott!
(& nice the GB team are able to step up & do rather more than just make up numbers for Cooke.)
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
They've been having a surprisingly good season
Given that 21 is old for that team. I was really worried about them a month ago, but they’re having some nice results and actually being able to support Cooke. Give it 5 years, and they’ll be all over the sport, I think
(when I saw that result, I thought it was Emma responding to Laura Trott winning the junior event at Borsele last week. Big sister showing she’s also strong!)
by Sarah Connolly on May 2, 2010 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
The Michela Fanini team got excluded
The DS of the Swedish team says that MF were late for the 4th stage and joined the peloton during the first lap out of six. The riders were not too happy about it.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
I love Google's translation
Today came the Italian team Michela Fanini late to start. They, however, jumped into the peloton mid-first round of the six, but disqualified. The truckers were completely insane and went and cried in the caravan, tore off his bib and threw the line side and threw bottles
Vos won the last stage
van Vleuten second, Cooke third. Same overall.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
And yet again some very silly gaps
Top 6:
1.. 59 . NED19870513 VOS Marianne . . . . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . 2: 32 : 47 + 00 : 00 11s bonus
2.. 58 . NED19821008 VAN VLEUTEN Annemie ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . 2: 32 : 47 + 00 : 00 9s bonus
3.. 52 . GBR19830413 COOKE Nicole . . . . . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . . 2: 32 : 53 + 00 : 06 6s bonus
4.. 73 . RUS19820727 ANTOSHINA Tatiana . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . 2: 33 : 01 + 00 : 14
5.. 18 . RUS19880916 BURCHENKOVA Alexand FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . 2: 40 : 41 + 07 : 54
6.. 92 . SWE19750606 STENERHAG Jannie . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . 2: 41 : 41 + 08 : 54
Most of the rest were in a big group 8:54 down. Good on Tatiana Antoshina for fighting for that third podium spot, but Nicole Cooke also got 5s bonus at the intermediate sprints, while Vos and Van Vleuten got the rest.
Final top 10:
1 . 59 . NED19870513 VOS Marianne . . . . . . . . . ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . . . . 11: 11 : 44 + 00 : 00
2 . 58 . NED19821008 VAN VLEUTEN Annemie ARC Nederland Bloeit . . . . . . . . . . . 11: 12 : 02 + 00 : 18
3 . 52 . GBR19830413 COOKE Nicole . . . . . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . . . . . 11: 25 : 25 + 13 : 41
4 . 73 . RUS19820727 ANTOSHINA Tatiana . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . . . . . 11: 25 : 38 + 13 : 54
5 . 18 . RUS19880916 BURCHENKOVA Alexand FEN Fenixs-Petrogradets . . . . . . . . . 11: 33 : 36 + 21 : 52
6 . 10 . UKR19751211 VYSOTSKA Ievgenia . . . . UKR Ukraian national . . . . . . . . . . . 11: 35 : 42 + 23 : 58
7 . 74 . RUS19760615 MARTISOVA Yulia . . . . . RUS Russian national . . . . . . . . . . . 11: 37 : 36 + 25 : 52
8 . 92 . SWE19750606 STENERHAG Jannie . . . . SWE Swedish national . . . . . . . . . . 11: 37 : 48 + 26 : 04
9 . 82 . NOR19870615 WAERSTED Fröydis . . . . HPU Hitec products UCK . . . . . . . . 11: 37 : 53 + 26 : 09
10 . 50 . GBR19900120 COLCLOUGH Katie . . . . . GBR Great Britain national . . . . . . . 11: 38 : 12 + 26 : 28
Quite unbelievably Marianne Vos won every single jersey available (she’s still eligible for the young rider one, too).
The organisers have linked to some media reports
here (including to this page – lets hope we don’t short circuit the wires), which doesn’t appear in the translated version of the page. This link looks likely to be the best, with promise of a video report, but it seems to go nowhere at the moment. , while the national newspaper reports listed under Napsali o nás 2010: include photos.
Video report now available at the link above
(click on TV Kvalita if you’ve got the bandwidth). Still no explanation on how the twelve minute gap came about, but at just under 40 minutes and no time wasted on talking heads it’s pretty decent coverage.
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