Tour de l'Avenir Femmes: Zanetti wins sprint on stage 2
Niedermaier continues as race leader
Linda Zanetti (Switzerland) won the sprint on the second stage of the Tour de l'Avenir Femmes, emerging from the bunch on the final bend and carving out such a solid gap that she could start her celebration before the line.
Zanetti topped Julie De Wilde of Belgium and Fem van Empel (Netherlands) in the bunch sprint on the 91.8km stage from Charolles to Louhans Chateaurenaud.
“Today was quite an easy stage because there weren’t many attacks and we raced all together with my team always in the front. They did a really good job for me and I could finish with the win in the sprint,” said Zanetti in a post stage interview.
Antonia Niedermaier (Germany) continues as the race leader as she, second-placed Anna Shackley (Great Britain) and Shirin van Anrooij (Netherlands) all finished in the bunch on the same time.
The debut edition of the five-day U23 women's race continues on Wednesday with a lumpy 97km stage from Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne to Val d'Epy with 1,223m of altitude gain and the category 2 climb of Côte du Thoissia topping out around 14km from the finish line.
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Laura Weislo has been with Cyclingnews since 2006 after making a switch from a career in science. As Managing Editor, she coordinates coverage for North American events and global news. As former elite-level road racer who dabbled in cyclo-cross and track, Laura has a passion for all three disciplines. When not working she likes to go camping and explore lesser traveled roads, paths and gravel tracks. Laura specialises in covering doping, anti-doping, UCI governance and performing data analysis.
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