Giro Rosa 2017: Gutierrez outsprints front group, Van der Breggen holds on to pink

On a hilly course between Isernia and Baronissi, the 7th stage of the Giro Rosa amounts to 142 hilly kilometres. A break of twelve riders holds on to the line with Sheyla Gutierrez sprinting to victory ahead of Soraya Paladin and Eugenia Bujak. Anna van der Breggen stays in pink. (Slideshow route/profile)

Results 7th stage 2017 Giro Rosa

1. Sheyla Gutierrez (spa)
2. Soroya Paladin (ita) s.t.
3. Eugenia Bujak (pol) s.t.
4. Alexis Ryan (usa) s.t.
5. Lauren Kitchen (aus) s.t.
6. Sabrina Stultiens (nld) s.t.
7. Alison Jackson (can) s.t.
8. Tatiana Guderzo (ita) s.t.
9. Carmela Cipriani (ita) s.t.
10. Clara Koppenburg (ger) s.t.

GC after the 7th stage
1. Anna van der Breggen (nld)
2. Elisa Longo Borghini (ita) + 1.03
3. Annemiek van Vleuten (nld) + 1.39
4. Megan Guarnier (usa) + 3.11
5. Amanda Spratt (aus) + 3.32
6. Katarzyna Niewiadoma (pol) + 4.02
7. Karol-Ann Canuel (can) + 4.22
8. Arlenis Sierra (cub) + 4.53
9. Shara Gillow (aus) + 4.57
10. Sabrina Stultiens (nld) + 5.02

Race report
Despite a lot of attacks it's long gruppo compatto, but then Dani King gives it a go and she races to a gap of 30 seconds before she is caught. Then Cipriani, Koppenburg, Stultiens, Kitchen, Ratto, Gutierrez, Hosking, Paladin, Guderzo, Jackson, Bujak, Ryan and Cecchini get more lucky. They race to lead of more than 3 minutes, while Hosking can't follow the pace.

Stultiens wins the intermediate sprint in San Giorgio ahead of Jackson and Cipriani.

On the flanks of the Passo Serra - 6.5 kilometers at 4.4% - the gap goes down to 1'42", but afterwards
it bounces back to 2 minutes. The chasing group consists of some 30 riders.

In the last kilometres the chasers close in, but they can't bridge the gap. In the ensuing sprint the Spanish Champion Sheyla Gutierrez bests the 24-year old Italian Soroya Paladin.