Name: Lone Winner Emerges Once More! | Giro Donne 2023 Highlights - Stage 6
Uploaded: 2023-07-05T00:00:00.000Z
Description: "Highlights from stage 6 of the Giro Donne 2023. Starting and finishing in Canelli, this 105km stage is deceptively tough. Three cat. 3 climbs fall in the last 40km - Castino (4.5km at 5.9%), Calosso (2.5km at 7.2%) and the climb to the finish in Canelli (2.4km at 6.7%) - making for an exciting finale.

Logan Jones-Wilkins

Junior Writer - North America

Logan Jones-Wilkins is GCN’s North American junior writer. From Denver, Colorado, he covers North American and European cycling for the website.

Stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia Donne was a punchy affair. After the queen stage yesterday on the Passo del Lupo, Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) came into the stage with a strong lead in the general classification and was looking to use her climbing to extend that lead further.

Nonetheless, as we saw yesterday with Elisa Longo Borgini, in Italian racing, nothing is guaranteed and possible crashes are lurking around any corner. Stage 6 proved to be no different as stage 5’s surprise winner Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM) and Urška Žigart (Jayco-AlUla) crashed out of the race early on.

Van Vleuten was able to avoid the crashes, however, and had enough firepower to go clear of the peloton on the penultimate climb. By the finish line, Van Vleuten won the stage and now holds a GC lead of over three minutes over Veronica Ewers (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB).

Movistar Team

Annemiek van Vleuten

"Highlights from stage 6 of the Giro Donne 2023. Starting and finishing in Canelli, this 105km stage is deceptively tough. Three cat. 3 climbs fall in the last 40km - Castino (4.5km at 5.9%), Calosso (2.5km at 7.2%) and the climb to the finish in Canelli (2.4km at 6.7%) - making for an exciting finale.

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Annemiek van Vleuten extends her lead in the general classification with another dominant stage win
