Kim Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal) has won the Tour of Britain Women. Starting the final stage with a 24-second buffer, her green leader's jersey was never really threatened, and stage 5 finished in a sprint that was won by Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) ahead of Lara Gillespie (UAE Team L'IMAD) and Chiara Consonni (Canyon-SRAM).
A breakaway of three had formed with 97km to go when Sara Martín (Movistar) bridged to Eva van Agt (FDJ United-Suez) and Alice Towers (Great Britain). They held a gap of up to 2:40 minutes and were still over two minutes ahead atop the final climb in the Burton Dassett Hills Country Park with 30.6km to go, but when the sprinters' teams joined forces in the final, they caught the escapees 1.3km from the line.
The peloton split on a technical final kilometre in Royal Leamington Spa, and Zoe Backstedt (Canyon-SRAM) brought Consonni onto the finishing straight - but then Wiebes launched her sprint from Consonni's wheel and won by several bike lengths while Gillespie pipped Consonni to the line for second place.
Due to the 10-second time bonification for the stage win, Wiebes leapfrogged Liane Lippert (Movistar) in the final GC to finish second overall after a race where she won four of the five stages.
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Results
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Position
Rider
Time
1
Lorena Wiebes (Ned) Team SD Worx-Protime
3:02:29
2
Lara Gillespie (Irl) UAE Team ADQ
+0:00:00
3
Chiara Consonni (Ita) CANYON//SRAM Racing
+0:00:00
4
Zoe Bäckstedt (Gbr) CANYON//SRAM Racing
+0:00:00
5
Pfeiffer Georgi (Gbr) Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
+0:00:00
6
Josie Nelson (Gbr) Team Visma | Lease a Bike
+0:00:00
7
Nienke Veenhoven (Ned) Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
+0:00:00
8
Caroline Andersson (Swe) Liv AlUla Jayco
+0:00:00
9
Millie Couzens (Gbr) Fenix-Deceuninck
+0:00:00
10
Maggie Coles-Lyster (Can) Human Powered Health
+0:00:00
Final general classification
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Position
Rider
Time
1
Kim Le Court-Pienaar (Mri) AG Insurance-Soudal Team
17:02:04
2
Lorena Wiebes (Ned) Team SD Worx-Protime
0:00:19
3
Liane Lippert (Ger) Movistar Team
0:00:24
4
Caroline Andersson (Swe) Liv AlUla Jayco
0:00:39
5
Femke de Vries (Ned) Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:00:44
6
Karlijn Swinkels (Ned) UAE Team ADQ
0:00:46
7
Mischa Bredewold (Ned) Team SD Worx-Protime
0:00:46
8
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Den) CANYON//SRAM Racing
0:00:46
9
Josie Nelson (Gbr) Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00:56
10
Riejanne Markus (Ned) Lidl-Trek
0:01:06
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Lukas Knöfler started working in cycling communications in 2013 and has seen the inside of the scene from many angles. Having worked as press officer for teams and races and written for several online and print publications, he has been Cyclingnews’ Women’s WorldTour correspondent since 2018.
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