Yara Kastelijn wins. Not bad for her first professional road victory. Kastelijn and her team look overjoyed. After today’s effort and with the bonus points she bagged, the Fenix–Deceuninck rider is now in seventh place on the GC. Kopecky, who put in a big effort in those final kilometres, retains the yellow jersey.
We saw van Vleuten also put in some work to try and reduce that gap to Kastelijn, and Alan noticed. He’s emailed in to say: “I was wondering when AVV and co were going to show up at the sharp end. Today was the day!”
After Van de Velde’s heroic solo effort yesterday was caught with 200m to the line, it’s been fun to see a solo breakaway (albeit, over a shorter distance) triumph. Thanks for following and emailing in. See you tomorrow for more Tour de France Femmes action! A race report of today’s stage will be added in soon…
Updated
The top 10 on General Classification
Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) 15hr 47min 25sec
Demi Vollering (SD Worx) +43
Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Soudal-Quickstep) +51sec
Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//Sram) +51sec
Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) +1min 05sec
Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) +51sec
Yara Kastelijn (Fenix–Deceuninck) +1min
Liane Lippert (Movistar) +1min 39sec
Juliette Labous (DSM–Firmenich) +1min 48sec
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) +1min 49sec
