Leigh Ann Ganzar (Hagens Berman-Supermint) won the Winston Salem Cycling Classic road race on Monday. She took a solo win ahead of chasers Arlenis Sierra (Astana) and Chloe Dygert-Owen (Twenty20-Shor-Air).
"This was the biggest win of my career and a full team effort," Ganzar said. "I couldn't have done it without my teammates. The intent [of the last attack] was to keep it fast. I looked back and had a gap, didn't see anyone come across, so I put my head down and tried to last as long as I could."
The women raced for 96km in and around Bailey Park. A decisive 10-rider breakaway cleared the field over the penultimate queen of the mountain and with roughly 15km to the finish line, 1 lap.
The group included Lauren Stephens (Tibco-SVB), Arlenis Sierra (Astana), Chloe Dygert-Owen and Shayna Powless (Twenty20-Sho-Air), Leigh Ann Ganzar and defending champion Lily Williams (Hagens Berman-Supermint), Sara Bergen (Rally UHC), Deborah Paine and Edwige Pitel (Cogeas - Mettler Pro Cycling Team), and Australia's Emily Roper.
Ganzar attacked at the start of the final lap, which gave her teammate Williams a chance to recover in the chase group. She held a 30-second gap up the final climb.
Dygert-Owen jumped over the top of the climb to try and close the gap to Ganzar, with Sierra on her wheel. Dygert-Owen pushed hard on the pedals and cut the gap down to 10 seconds on the way to the finish line. Sierra started helping Dygert-Owen in the final kilometres, both trying to catch Ganzar, but they weren't able to shut it down before the finish line.
Full results
| # | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leigh Ann Ganzar (USA) Hagens Berman-Supermint | 2:35:36 |
| 2 | Arlenis Sierra (Cub) Astana Women's Team | 0:00:04 |
| 3 | Chloe Dygert (USA) Sho-Air Twenty20 | 0:00:20 |
| 4 | Emily Roper (Aus) | |
| 5 | Sara Bergen (Can) Rally UHC Cycling Women | |
| 6 | Lily Williams (USA) Hagens Berman-Supermint | |
| 7 | Lauren Stephens (USA) Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank | 0:00:27 |
| 8 | Deborah Paine (NZl) Cogeas Mettler Look | 0:00:29 |
| 9 | Edwige Pitel (Fra) Cogeas Mettler Look | 0:00:31 |
| 10 | Shayna Powless (USA) Sho-Air Twenty20 | 0:01:07 |
| 11 | Sarah Gigante (Aus) | 0:01:25 |
| 12 | Jessica Parra Rojas (Col) | 0:01:32 |
| 13 | Lex Albrecht (Can) Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank | 0:01:43 |
| 14 | Justine Barrow (Aus) | 0:01:45 |
| 15 | Peta Mullens (Aus) | 0:01:47 |
| 16 | Caroline Baur (Sui) | 0:01:48 |
| 17 | Marie Soleil Blais (Can) Astana Women's Team | |
| 18 | Katie Clouse (USA) | 0:01:49 |
| 19 | Madeline Bemis (USA) | |
| 20 | Blanca Liliana Moreno Canchon (Col) Astana Women's Team | 0:01:50 |
| 21 | Emma Langley (USA) | |
| 22 | Daniely Del Valle Garcia Butrago (Col) | 0:02:07 |
| 23 | Olivia Ray (Nzl) | 0:02:08 |
| 24 | Michaela Drummond (Nzl) | 0:02:10 |
| 25 | Philippa Sutton (Nzl) | |
| 26 | Margot Clyne (USA) Sho-Air Twenty20 | 0:02:13 |
| 27 | Regina Lecce (USA) | 0:02:19 |
| 28 | Tina Pic (USA) | 0:02:23 |
| 29 | Emily Spence (Can) | |
| 30 | Jolene Holland (USA) | |
| 31 | Claudia Verónica Leal Balderas (Mex) | |
| 32 | Holly Breck (USA) | |
| 33 | Jennifer Valente (USA) Sho-Air Twenty20 | |
| 34 | Kat Sweatt (USA) | |
| 35 | Sharlotte Lucas (NZl) Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| 36 | Larissa Castelari de Lima (Bra) | 0:02:28 |
| 37 | Lizbeth Yareli Salazar Vazquez (Mex) Astana Women's Team | |
| 38 | Emily Ehrlich (USA) | |
| 39 | Gillian Ellsay (Can) Rally UHC Cycling Women | |
| 40 | Erica Allar (USA) Rally UHC Cycling Women | |
| 41 | Allie Dragoo (USA) Sho-Air Twenty20 | |
| 42 | Kendall Ryan (USA) Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank | 0:04:22 |
| 43 | Natalia Franco Villegas (Col) | 0:05:33 |
| 44 | Starla Teddergreen (USA) Hagens Berman-Supermint | 0:05:35 |
| DNF | Whitney Allison (USA) Hagens Berman-Supermint | |
| DNF | Heather Fischer (USA) | |
| DNF | Ella Bloor (Aus) | |
| DNF | Georgia Simmerling (Can) Sho-Air Twenty20 | |
| DNF | Caroline Poole (Can) | |
| DNF | Summer Moak (USA) Rally UHC Cycling Women | |
| DNF | Katherine Maine (Can) Rally UHC Cycling Women | |
| DNF | Brenna Wry-Simpson (USA) | |
| DNF | Luz Adriana Tovar Salgado (Col) | |
| DNF | Valentina Scandolara (Ita) Cogeas Mettler Look | |
| DNF | Emma Chilton (Aus) | |
| DNF | Natalie Redmond (Aus) | |
| DNF | Nicolle Bruderer Cofiño (Gua) Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| DNF | Lisa Cordova (USA) | |
| DNF | Abby Krawczyk (USA) | |
| DNF | Scotti Lechuga (USA) | |
| DNF | Kimberly Lucie (USA) | |
| DNF | Julie Kuliecza (USA) Hagens Berman-Supermint | |
| DNF | Rachel Langdon (GBr) | |
| DNF | Harriet Owen (GBr) Hagens Berman-Supermint | |
| DNF | Clio Dinan (USA) | |
| DNF | Rebecca Wiasak (Aus) | |
| DNF | Manuela Escobar Jaramillo (Col) | |
| DNF | Sommers Creed (USA) | |
| DNF | Hannah Shell (USA) | |
| DNF | Katherine Compton (USA) | |
| DNF | Samantha Schneider (USA) | |
| DNF | Emily Marcolini (Can) Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank | |
| DNF | Luisa Fernanda Motavita Duarte (Col) | |
| DNF | Ana Maria Hernandez Delgado (Mex) | |
| DNF | Courteney Lowe (Nzl) | |
| DNF | Rachel Jordan (USA) | |
| DNF | Madison Kelly (USA) | |
| DNF | Cinthia Lehner (USA) | |
| DNF | Jenna Dunham (USA) | |
| DNF | Grace Chappell (USA) | |
| DNF | Silvia Fernanda Polanco Dominguez (Mex) | |
| DNF | Angie Liliana Sanabria Puerto (Col) | |
| DNF | Merrill Thierman (USA) | |
| DNF | Hayley Bates (USA) | |
| DNF | Virginie Perizzolo Pointet (Swi) Cogeas Mettler Look | |
| DNF | Ashlyn Woods (USA) | |
| DNF | Gracie Pendleton (USA) | |
| DNF | Jennifer Caicedo (Col) | |
| DNF | Danielle Clark (USA) | |
| DNF | Maria Fernanda Paz Robles (Col) | |
| DNF | Paige Kostanecki (USA) | |
| DNF | Daisy Johana Puin Gaitan (Col) | |
| DNF | Jenette Williams (USA) | |
| DNF | Allison Beveridge (Can) Rally UHC Cycling Women | |
| DNF | Yusseli Mendivil Soto (Mex) | |
| DNF | Flora Yan (USA) | |
| DNS | Janelle Cole (USA) | |
| DNS | Brooke Hannon (USA) |
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