Anna van der Breggen: “I did my best and it just wasn’t enough”

Anna van der Breggen (Team SD Worx-Protime) finished second overall in La Vuelta Femenina 26 by Carrefour.es.

“I feel pretty tired, and disappointed. The climb was quite hard. I did my best and it just wasn’t enough. Paula Blasi is a very strong rider who will be an important GC contender in grand tours in the future - and, well, already in the present.”

Anna van der Breggen: “I had never seen a climb like Les Praeres before”

Anna van der Breggen (Team SD Worx-Protime) won the sixth stage of La Vuelta Femenina 26 by Carrefour.es and became the leader of the overall standings, as well as in the Queen of the Mountains classification.

"It was a really hard day, with lots of fighting in the peloton. I had never seen a climb like Les Praeres before! It was a hard climb, but also a nice day. The...

Van der Breggen keeps Blasi at bay up Les Praeres

The peloton of La Vuelta Femenina 26 by Carrefour.es was waiting for the final two stages in Asturias to decide the overall standings of the race. First on the menu came the summit finish to Les Praeres, and its ramps really made the expected difference as Dutch legend Anna van der Breggen (Team SD Worx-Protime) took matters into her own hands from the bottom of the final climb...

Van der Breggen with 8” on Blasi and 12” on Bunel

With 2 kilometres to go. Berthet further back, followed by the Niewiadoma group.

Van der Breggen, unharmed

Fifth in the overall standings after being second to her teammate Lotte Kopecky in Antas de Ulla to collect some bonus seconds that put her 6” ahead of the rest of the GC favorites, Anna van der Breggen suffered a crash in the closing kilometres of yesterday’s stage. “I’m okay,” she reassuringly said at Team SD Worx-Protime’s social media...