At the end of an impressive competition, Fez Cata Blanca won the U23 World Championship title in the elite women’s competition at the World Cup in Glasgow. The Hungarian classic actively competed all the way through and finished in 11th place.
The elite women’s 154.1km race rounds out the road discipline program at the All-Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. The ladies started from Loch Lomond and, after climbing the Crewe (5.5km, 4%) for about sixty kilometres, reached Scotland’s largest town, where another six turns of Montrose Street (200m, 3.5%) to overcome included Blanca Kata Fez and Petra Zsanko Hungarian cyclists are among the debutantes.
Soon after the start, a splinter group of very good names left, in which Vas Cata Blanca also played a role, as well as the Hungarian-Dutch champion Misha Brediwald, the Belgian Sani Kant, the French Juliette Labus, the Swiss Elise. Chappy, Britain’s Elizabeth Degnan and South Africa’s Ashley Mollman thought an early departure could cost you, as in the under-23 boys’ race.
Fez worked a lot at the beginning of the stage, which paid off on the climb to Crewe Road, and our advantage returned to the main field, but the pursuit of the German team captured the summit before it reached the Glasgow circuit.
Even after entering the city, the mood did not subside, the attempts were incessant, Fez changed his pace several times, showing himself at the head of the field, but again only the very energetic Elise Chappe managed to pass about seventy-five kilometers from the finish line. Meanwhile, the lead group was down to barely thirty-five riders—unfortunately, Petra Zanko was already over nine minutes behind, and shortly thereafter was thrown out of the race.
With three laps to go, Xavi’s advantage had already increased to a minute and a half, the Belgian and Dutch teams took their share of the chase, Blanca Vas kept his position well, and at that point there were only three U23 riders left in that row: Blanca and Dutch Sherine Van Anroy and Britain’s Anna Shackley.
Thirty kilometers from the finish line, the Dutchman Animik van Vleuten took the lead, and Chabi’s advantage vanished in moments, while a very dangerous group of seven people formed, including Demi Vollering from the Netherlands, Demi Vollering from the Netherlands, and Lotte Kopecky from Belgium. Marilyn Rosser from Switzerland with the participation of the British Elizabeth Degnan, the Danish Cecily Otrop Ludwig and the Austrian Christina Schweinberger.
Moving into the penultimate lap, the number of the third group dwindled as well, only ten of them chasing the seven ahead of them, although the fate of the Under-23 World Championship title could already be envisioned only in the final sprint.
Soon after, changes of pace began in the second wave, Xavi was caught, while defender Van Villeuten pulled out of the fight for the rainbow jersey with a mechanical problem – Blanca’s group went into the deciding kilometers with a narrow two-minute deficit.
Up front, the duo of Deignan and Schweinberger changed pace for the first time, but Kopecky and Reusser put the wheel on them, but Vollering closed the line again with a great job.
In front of Montrose Street, Kopecky and Ludwig left, and then the Belgian, who had won two world championship titles on the track a few days earlier, rocketed.
And the Belgian Lotte Kopecky could not be stopped from now on, as she confidently won the world championship title, the silver behind her went to the Dutchman Demi Vollering, and the Danish Cecilie Utrop Ludwig took the bronze.
The battle for the U-23 World Championship title was decided in a sprint, in which Blanca Vas-Kata (11th overall) won ahead of Dutch Shereen Van Anroy (13th absolute) and Britain’s Anna Shackley (17th absolute). Sports history!!!
“This is a great success, not only for him, but for the whole of Hungarian cycling, we are very proud of him.” – Zsolt Dér rated the first Hungarian World Cup gold in the discipline when asked by MTI. The captain of the national team explained: Beforehand, they expected Fez to take a good course, because he has no problems turning and positioning against the majority of the pitch, and has therefore skillfully positioned all over the pitch. It was also planned that if there was a seemingly dangerous breakaway, he would try to enter it, and he succeeded, as well as actively compete later, because in previous World Cup field competitions they saw that good results could be achieved from early escapes. Dier also touched on the fact that Fez felt flattered after Friday’s mountain bike test, and it didn’t affect his result on the road.
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