Marianne Vos (Visma | Lease a Bike): “Very happy… and also exhausted”

May 9 ^th 2025 - 15:21 [GMT + 2]

Marianne Vos (Visma | Lease a Bike) won Stage 6 of La Vuelta Femenina 25 by Carrefour.es and is the current leader of the Points classification.

“I’m very happy… and also exhausted, to be honest. We knew, as a team, that today it was a chance for us. The first one of course takes you the pressure off, but today we wanted to go all out, and we did. There were a lot of straight open roads, with just enough wind to make it hard. It was mainly headwind, which was not ideal for the breakaway. A big move went, and we had two riders on it with Marion Bunel, and it was a good situation for us. But when we got close to the end, we wanted to control. It was a fast run in with the downhill, and every team wanted to lead out its sprinter. It was pretty tough to stay in contention already in the last few hills, but anyway I was in a really good position coming into the finish. As in the previous sprint stage, Imogen Wolff did a really good job at leading me out into the final corner. Then Mischa Bredewold opened her sprint, and in the last 150m we were just out of breath. It was very close, and I’m happy I could take the victory. We are very happy with today’s result and we’re going to enjoy and celebrate it a bit, but then we will get ready for a hard final stage.”