Giro Donne 2022: Labous wins at Passo Maniva, Van Vleuten keeps maillor rosa
fotobureau Cor VosJuliette Labous climbs to victory from the breakaway on the Passo Maniva. Annemiek van Vleuten finishes in second to cement her overall race lead.
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Results 7th stage 2022 Giro Donne
1. Juliette Labous (fra)
2. Annemiek van Vleuten (nld) + 1.37
3. Mavi García (spa) + 1.41
4. Marta Cavalli (ita) + 1.47
5. Elisa Longo Borghini (ita) + 1.50
6. Niamh Fisher-Black (aus) + 1.57
7. Gaia Realini (ita) + 2.13
8. Amanda Spratt (aus) + 2.29
9. Clara Koppenburg (ger) + 2.37
10. Silvia Persico (ita) + 2.39
GC after stage 7
1. Annemiek van Vleuten (nld)
2. Mavi García (spa) + 0.31
3. Marta Cavalli (ita) + 1.10
4. Elisa Longo Borghini (ita) + 5.19
5. Niamh Fisher-Black (aus) + 5.54
6. Amanda Spratt (aus) + 6.12
7. Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (den) + 6.22
8. Silvia Persico (ita) + 6.33
9. Erica Magnaldi (ita) 8.25
10. Elisa Chabbey (swi) + 8.30
Race report
The breakaway features Arzuffi, Cecchini, Ducuara, Fahlin, Harvey, Labous, Lutro, Patiño, Ragusa, Rossato, Teruel, Tonetti, Vallieres and Williams. The fourteen carve out a lead of roughly 10 minutes.
The gap has fallen to 2 minutes at the base of the finish climb. Juliette Labous is the only remaining attacker with 7.5 kilometres to go.
Labous' lead hovers around 2 minutes during the entire climb. Which is enough for the stage victory.
Van Vleuten puts pressure on her GC rivals in de last kilometre. Cavalli is the first to drop behind before García can't follow in the last few hundred metres of the climb.
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