Teutenberg claims stage, overall wins

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 Germany’s Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) claimed victory in a seven woman sprint to win Chongming’s final stage, and overall classification. Like the general classification race the third stage’s sprint was a tight battle between Teutenberg and Dutch rider Kirsten Wild (Cervelo TestTeam).

"I won by centimetres, it was so close I actually thought I hadn't got it," said Teutenberg. "Normally you can tell when you've won, but this time we had to wait until it was confirmed.

"The whole stage was a tough battle, it was so flat it was hard to make any kind of difference,” she added. “Kirsten got an intermediate sprint, and I got another, so we were tied on time. When I went for it at the end, she went for it too and it was a drag race right to the finish."

Wild missed out on the overall classification by just four seconds.

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