Niewiadoma takes opportunity to gain time over Tour de France Femmes rivals

Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) joins the day's breakaway on stage 2 at Tour de France Femmes
Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) joins the day's breakaway on stage 2 at Tour de France Femmes (Image credit: Getty Images)

Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) may have missed out on the win on stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, but the Polish rider is taking today as a victory after gaining 34 seconds on most of her general classification rivals.

Niewiadoma got away in a six-rider group in the final 20km of the stage, following Elisa Balsamo’s (Trek-Segafredo) attack at the right moment, something she put down to the team’s pre-race planning.

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Matilda Price is a freelance cycling journalist and digital producer based in the UK. She is a graduate of modern languages, and recently completed an MA in sports journalism, during which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of young cyclists. Matilda began covering cycling in 2016 whilst still at university, working mainly in the British domestic scene at first. Since then, she has covered everything from the Tour Series to the Tour de France. These days, Matilda focuses most of her attention on the women’s sport, writing for Cyclingnews and working on women’s cycling show The Bunnyhop. As well as the Women’s WorldTour, Matilda loves following cyclo-cross and is a recent convert to downhill mountain biking.