{"id":164490,"date":"2025-06-07T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164490\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:11:10","slug":"volta-a-catalunya-femenina-elise-chabbey-wins-opening-stage-with-late-attack-from-three-rider-breakaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164490\/","title":{"rendered":"Volta a Catalunya Femenina: Elise Chabbey wins opening stage with late attack from three-rider breakaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elise Chabbey made a perfectly-timed late-race attack on a three-way breakaway to secure a solo victory and the first leader’s jersey on the opening stage at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya Femenina<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a one-two finish for FDJ-SUEZ as Demi Vollering out-sprinted Ane Santesteban (Laboral Kutxa-Fundaci\u00f3n Euskadi) for second place in Reus.<\/p>\n

Chabbey now leads the overall GC by nice seconds ahead of Vollering and 13 seconds ahead of Santesteban, with stage 2 on Saturday bringing an uphill finish to favour her climbing ability.<\/p>\n

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“I can’t even find the words. For me, it means so much to win a bike race. I’m not a cyclist that wins a lot so this is really important for me. I am so happy,” Chabbey said in a post-race interview about her victory.<\/p>\n

“I have to thank the whole team, and Demi, because she was the strongest but it was the plan that I go a bit earlier and try to create a break, and she would jump and bridge and we would be together. It was perfect. In the end, she told me to attack and go for it. I’m so happy.”<\/p>\n

The opening stage at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya Femenina offered a hilly 114.4km from El Perello to Reus with three categorised ascents at Coll del Guix (14.6km at 3.2%), Coll de Porrera (3.3km at 6.8%) and Coll d’Alforia (5km at 4.6%), followed by mostly descending all the way into Reus.<\/p>\n

The first separation from the peloton was by US rider Allison Mrugal (Cynisca Cycling) and South American Agua Maria Espinola (Team Farto-Kiroot), but went no farther than the 30 kilometres. With 50 kilometers to go to the finish, on the climb to the Coll de Porrera, a decisive move saw three riders escape.<\/p>\n

The breakaway of three riders included Vollering, who had bridged across to her teammate Chabbey and Santesteban over the final ascent. The trio pushed their lead out to 1:45 minutes over a chasing 12 riders in the closing 30km of the race, that only continued to increase as they descended toward the finale.<\/p>\n

A Visma-Lease a Bike quartet led the chase group having the most riders in the mix, but did not receive help from other teams Human Powered Health, Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto, VolkerWessels, Team Coop-Repsol and Eneicat-CMTeam.<\/p>\n

The trio continued to push their lead out to more than two minutes in the final 14km as Vollering and Chabbey set a blistering pace, and Santesteban sitting on their wheels with no obligation to assist her FDJ-SUEZ rivals.<\/p>\n

Chabbey made her winning move with 1.4km to go, forcing Santesteban to chase with Vollering on her wheel.<\/p>\n

The Swiss rider opened her gap to 10 seconds in the final few hundred metres, and crossed the finish line with the victory.<\/p>\n

Results<\/p>\n

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