HIGHLIGHTS | 2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Women – Stage Three

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Saturday’s third stage went down to The Wire in Warrington, with Lorena Wiebes prevailing, as she normally does, in a bunch sprint. Watch the highlights from a brilliant day of racing!

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in a row de cryy thank you Wales we leave the country behind we head across the border into England for stage three of the Lloyds Bank tour of Britain women it’s stage three Warrington to Warrington a 106.8 km stage with just a little under 800 M of elevation to take on through the cheser lanes Rod ellingworth waves the red flag he pulls away in the red car the race goes through kilom 0 and we’re officially under away it was a calm start it was all together a little touch of wheels on the right hand side and it was Alex McWilliam of hes cycling who sadly suffered a crash and unfortunately had to abandon the stage Joe Tinley the experienced 37y old British Riders sensed her an opportunity to attack she found her way through the Paton on the narrow country roads in cheser and it was Maddie leech who went with her two British Riders out leading the race they got to the base of PEX Hill the Category 3 climb the first queen of the mountain of the day a 2 km climb averaging 2.7% the duo had a little over four minutes of an advantage as they got to the top of the queen of the mountain it was MADD leech who took the four points on offer with tinly taking three the lone Chaser behind was Lucy Lee the 26-year-old from D Hutchinson Brother UK she took the two points and was in pursuit of the leading Duo behind there was still one point on offer and it was Lizzy d who leads the queen of the mountains competition who wanted to try and add more points to that tally she now leads 11 points over L of Capi there was problems for Maddy leech the 21-year-old who was suffering gear problems it was the front deria causing her havoc and as she got to the next Queen of the mountain of the day on shrigley road she started to lose contact with Tinley a hard decision for Tinley to have to make but in the end it was a stage victory that was up for grabs M Leach managed to solve her problems with the mechanical as she crested the top of shrigley Road she took the four points with Tinley taken three and after a long wait for the team car behind she managed to get a bike change the time that it took to take get the buy change meant that the Chasers were never too far away as she came into moton St Andrew it was Lucy Lee and Emma Caitlyn dimbleby who joined forces with M Leach creating three chases to Joe Tinley the pelaton were in Pursuit and it was all led by SD Works Pro time and Elena Chini the former Italian Champion the group all came back together but there was still one ride around front and it was Joe Tinley who went through one kilom to go until the only intermediate Sprint of the day at me Tinley had great support at the roadside she took the Four Points in the three bonus seconds and it was hotly contested behind with PSTA taking the two bonus seconds and the two points with Ruby rosem MC Ganon taking the one Bon a second and one point the fatigue started to set in and Tinley was starting to struggle but meanwhile a fresh pair of legs and it was Valerie deay of vul of vessels who sensed it was her opportunity to make a move the 30-year-old Belgian starting to go clear Tinley was caught and she was unable to go with Valerie deay but then deay started to have gear problems and the big problem meant that The Paton were able to re her in it was an outstanding lead out from Bara gishi who delivered L kapaki and Lorena Weis PSTA leading out Georgia Baker and the Big Challenge came on the right hand side from charlott cool it was a closely fought battle but in the end the acceleration and explosive power from weers meant she delivered the victory into Warrington making it three in a row for SD Works Pro time Lorena weers win stage three from charot Co in second and Georgia Baker in third fourth goes to ra Barbieri with Flor Perkins in fifth and Marian fanu is in sixth this victory means Lorena weers is now the most successful rider in the history of the tour of Britain with six stage wins the day’s combativity award goes to Joe Tinley Lizzie D keeps hold of the queen of the mountains Jersey L keki still leads the Sprint classification and the world champion also retains the race leaders is green jersey with one day to [Music] go with three stages completed the general classification looks like this L keki leads by 17 seconds from Anna Henderson with litzia pansta third at 32 seconds fif for Georgie is fourth just 6 seconds off a Podium place and then comes a group of four Riders at 43 seconds