Women's podium: Winner Mary-Ellen Ash (Metromint Cycling, center), second place Starla Teddergreen (Vanderkitten-Focus) and Nichole Wangsgard (Primal-Map My Ride) third place.
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Starla Teddergreen (Vanderkitten-Focus) on way to her second-place finish.
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Alison Terick-Starnes finds herself on the front during the last lap of the women's race.
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Mary Ellen Ash (Metromint Cycling) wins the women's race ahead of teh hard-charging Primal/Map My Ride and Vanderkitten-Focus teams.
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Mary Ellen Ash (Metromint Cycling, center) finds herself in a champagne crossfire between WANGSGARD, Nichole Wangsgard (Primal/Map My Ride) and Starla Teddergreen (Vanderkitten-Focus) after winning the women's race.
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Women's podium: Winner Mary-Ellen Ash (Metromint Cycling, center), second place Starla Teddergreen (Vanderkitten-Focus) and Nichole Wangsgard (Primal-Map My Ride) third place.
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Peanut Butter & Co/Team Twenty12 manager Nicola Cranmer and Alison Tetrick-Starnes at staging. Starnes was the only Peanut Butter rider on hand, as her teammates were contesting races in Europe.
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SRAM NRS supplied bikes and neutral mechanical support for the Sacramento Grand Prix.
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'I was actually pretty confident I could do a good sprint' says defending champion after coming second to Magnus Bak Klaris in a four-way charge to the line
'I said before the start that I wanted to risk it and go for a big result and it was the podium I was thinking about' says Danish rider who paid his own way to world title race