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

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A thrilling day out on the wet and windy moorlands around Manchester eventually boils down to a sprint to the line in Leigh – but who will take stage four victory?!

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it’s stage four It’s the final stage of the Lloyd’s Bank tour Britain women and it’s a 99 km stage with 1,612 M of elevation they leave the national Cycling Center in Manchester they’re heading for Lee a short intense stage across the climbs they passed through kilometer 0 and it was a calm start to begin with that was until several attacks started to go off the front none made it until Christa doel Hickok of the human powered Health Squad decided and sensed her opportunity on her favorite terrain as she went through Del she got to the first queen of the mountain of the day the category one climb of grains bar a 2.4 km climb averaging 5.8% the lower slopes of the climb were at its most steepest of 11% and it was tanil Campbell of liula jao who was pacing the Paton it all came back together due to the impetus and the pace at the front from the rider from Trinidad and Tobago and behind the damage was being done with several Riders being distanced it was the group that split and Lizzie Dagan as she came to the top of the queen of the mountain on grain’s bar she accelerated to take the 10 points to add to her Queen of the Mountain’s lead she took a look over her left hand shoulder and she saw an advantage the 10 points go to dagam putting her on 35 points then she pursued the lead out front there was a real Chase but when she came to the bottom of the second Queen of the mountain of the day Ram’s bottom breake she still had a good lead she’d been the virtual leader along the way it was team DSM fic post andl who were setting the pace for f for Georgie on this brutal climb it was an eyering 1.1 km long with 10.1% average Dam bag the 10 points in the queen of the mountains competition putting her on 45 points it was her GB National teammate Anna Henderson taking the nine ahead of pster keki and Georgie dnon still persisted out front she still had a good lead and it was the second chasing group on the road that contained s Michelle mavic over 93 who were willing to try and do the work to get to the chasing group it was all back together and it was Christine maseras who sensed an opportunity to attack it was the luxembourgish champion with a Counterattack followed by Anna Henderson she was always closely marked by lot of keki Henderson was the nearest rival in the general classification for keki one kilometer to go until the one and only intermediate Sprint of the day and it was going to be a close battle because there three bonus seconds on the line it was SD Works Pro time who were in control it was close but it was Majerus who took the three seconds patosa with the two and Weis with the one on the run into Lee Sports Village Dam tacted once again with that blue jersey on his shoulders but of course she was closely marked by Christine Majerus the Counterattack arrived and it came from Anna Henderson second overall in the general classification she had 17 seconds to make up on keki and it put keki to work into the final and into the run into League it was the world champion in the green jersey who was on the front and she had an advantage with 200 meters to go it was looking set to be for Lorena Weis but as Lota started to look around she started to free whe and Lorena Weez was cheering on Majerus as majeres came to the line in Lee it was a close one and a photo finish with Ruby Rose MC Ganon down the center of the road and indeed it was the Australian road race champion who did take the victory maera celebrated too early final stage ahead of the SD Works Protime Trio of Christine maseras Lorena weas and L keki alen Jansen takes fifth place and fif for Georgie sixth the stage four Victory goes to Ruby Roseman Ganon of liula jao the winner of the Sprints competition is L keki and Great Britain’s Lizzie Dagan wins the queen of the mountains the best young Rider award goes to alen Jansen of vul of vessels Christine maseras missed out on the stage win but she made it onto the podium in third place overall second spot goes to Britain’s Anna Henderson and the winner of the inaugural Lloyds Bank tour of Britain women is L keki confirmation of the overall standings LTE keki wins by 17 seconds from Anna Henderson with Christine masarus in third Fifer Georgie misses out on a Podium finish by Just 4 seconds and Letizia PSTA manages fifth despite that Lake puncture