French sprinter Clara Copponi has completed like a boss, successful the ladies’s Tour Down Beneath basic.
Lidl Trek saved her out of sight till the tip of the 90km circuit race and Copponi convincingly took out the bunch end.
Copponi theatrically folded her arms, smiled and nodded for emphasis as she crossed the road.
Australian teammate Amanda Spratt had predicated on race eve that Copponi would win.
Australian Georgia Baker was second, unable to capitalise on an influence of labor from her Liv AlUla Jayco workforce by the 20-lap race on Sunday within the Adelaide parklands.
Liv AlUla Jayco workforce, the one Australian workforce within the WorldTour peloton, have been predictably ative all through the race.
Baker’s teammate Amber Pate, who dominated the Australian criterium title earlier this month, joined Italian Greta Marturano (UAE) in a break halfway, that lasted till about 15km left.
American star Chloe Dygert then despatched an enormous scare by the peloton when she went on certainly one of her trademark expenses on Montefiore Hill, through the second-last lap.
Italian Rachele Barbieri (Picnic PostNL) went along with her and Liv AlUla Jayco led the response, closing them down early on the final lap.
Barbieri completed third and Dygert was fourth.
Dygert, lively all through the Santos Ladies’s Tour, gained the third and ultimate stage at Stirling final week with a solo cost on the end.
The one-day basic is a brand new occasion this 12 months on the Santos Tour as organisers steadily construct the ladies’s race.
The three-day ladies’s Tour Down Beneath was held from January 17-19.
The identical circuit was getting used for the final stage of the boys’s tour on Sunday afternoon.
