At the thrilling end of a totally captivating third edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes, Alison Jackson (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB) took the biggest win of her career, accelerating out of the final bend on the famous velodrome to outpace her five sprint rivals. The 34-year-old Canadian crossed the line ahead of Liv Racing’s Katia Ragusa, while Fenix-Deceuninck’s Marthe Truyen claimed the final podium place.
The group of favourites was led in a dozen seconds later by last weekend’s Tour of Flanders winner Lotte Kopecky a dozen seconds later. Their pursuit of the leaders had been hampered by a spectacular sliding crash by Trek-Segafredo’s Elisa Longo Borghini on the Pont Thibaut to Ennevelin section of cobbles 37km from home, only one rider escaping the domino effect behind the defending Roubaix champion.
