Sprinter's Paradise - How Chiara Consoni won the tour of Chongming Island

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Sprinter's Paradise - How Chiara Consoni won the tour of Chongming Island

The tour of Chongming Island is famous for being a sprinter's paradise because the race is almost entirely flat, and as with most years, the 2023 edition featured 3 bunch sprints on many stages.

In Final Stage 3, the overall winner was still on the line and fought hard. We analyzed the sprint where Chiara Consonni (UAE team ADQ) won the stage and GC.

Entering the left corner, the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team, along with Rebecca Keener and Wilma Olawson, were taking the front line ahead of Anniina Ahtosalo, who would win a white U23 jersey if he could get a bonus second at the finish line.

The Scandinavian team first passed the turn, but then Nguyen (Israel Premier Tech Rowland) passed to their right with a three-seater train from Human Power Health on her wheels.

When Nguyen returned, the orange cladding was taken over; Then, Li Ning Star Lady Rider made a curious attack down the left side at 2.5 km to go. She was able to get there a short time before the human powered health train (but it was mostly 2 lanes to their left), and she sat down again and rank

while Olawson was leading the race at two kilometers, Ahtosalo was on the line between Marit Raaijmakers and Marjolein van't Geloof (both Human Powered Health). He was in fourth place. Sprinter Daria Piclik is on the wheel of Athosaro, Zhang Yue (China national Team) is on the left of Athosaro, Alice Sharp and Maggie Coles Lister (Israel Premier Tech) are on the side, and Marta Lach and Martina Fidanza (Ceratijit WNT) are on the right. It was. Wearing a green jersey, Consoni was riding the wheel of Fidanza.

Olawson was about 1.2 km away from the finish line, and Lymaker took the Peloton to the final kilometer. The Ceratizit-WNT train passed her and Van't Geloof, putting Fidanza behind Consonni and into the second wheel.

Ahtosalo chose to retreat a bit, sitting right behind and on the left side of Consonni, but the UAE team ADQ rider served as a sweeper next to the Finnish champion, preventing Pikulik from sitting at the wheel of Consonni.

Van't Geloof did his best, but Sharpe and Coles-Lyster led the sprint more than their own sprinters. Fidanza and Ahtosalo started the sprint almost simultaneously. On the left side of the road, Stage 2 winner Hannah Tserakh (Li Ning Star Ladies) also went very early; Her team couldn't put her in the same position as the day before, so she had a lot of ground to make up for.

In the last 100 meters, Consoni took the lead past Fidanza on the right, but Atosaro used a slipstream to slot a short time behind Fidanza and start a second kick towards the line. Pickick and Coles Lister were speeding behind Consoni, but when Pickick started pulling along with Consoni between the green Jersey and the barrier, Coles Lister had to pause the pedaling and resume the sprint and go to the left of Consoni's rear wheel instead. It was. Pikulik himself also missed 50 pedal strokes, about 2 meters from the line, because there was no gap between the consoni and the barrier.

Neither Consoni nor Picrik deviated from the sprint lane, so there was nothing worth further investigation or demotion, and the small deviation was explained by the enormous force the rider pedaled on the mass sprint.

The Polish sprinter finally found a gap when Consoni again moved slightly to the left, almost passing her with the remaining 9 pedal strokes, finishing about 3 minutes 2 of the length of the bike and beating Fidanza to 2nd place.

Ahtosalo was in 4th place, putting half the length of the bike back further, Coles-Lyster finished in 5th and Rachele Barbieri (Liv Racing TeqFind) was in 6th. After a small gap, Tserakh was "the best of the rest" in 7th place.

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