Marta Bastianelli (Alé Cipollini) sprinted to Italy's first Giro Rosa stage win on Saturday. The 30-year-old beat out out stage six winner Lotta Lepistö (Cervelo-Bigla) and Giorgia Bronzini (Wiggle-High5). The sprinters survived early climbs and clawed back a late race breakaway to contest the penultimate stage in Polla.
"We wanted to win and we did it today," said Bastianelli. "Chloe [Hosking] crashed at the beginning. Then Anna [Trevisi] was amazing in the breakaway. My teammates were perfect to help me launch my sprint. I couldn’t do any mistakes. Lotta beat me in Roseto, where I live, but today I was faster. It's great thanks to my team and my mates."
The paper profile for stage 9 offered up options a-plenty for the way Saturday's race might unfold. A sprint would be a likely outcome if any sprinters managed to survive the hilly first half, but a breakaway would like its chances following recent success of the escapes.
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Climbing began from kilometre zero and so did the attrition. As Boels-Dolmans massed at the front in defense of Anna van der Breggen's maglia rosa, riders began to lose contact with the back.
The peloton had been halved by the time the race reached the second uncategorised ascent of the day. All the big name sprinters were reported as dropped.
50 kilometres into the stage, the first escape forced clear. The seven-strong group contained a mix of domestiques and rouleurs: Elena Cecchini (Canyon//SRAM), Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Wiggle-High5) Simona Frapporti (Hitec), Floortje Mackaij (Sunweb), Dani King (Cylance), Sofia Bertizzolo (Astana) and Ana Corvig (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo). With Cecchini best placed more than eight minutes down on Van der Breggen, the break offered no threat to the overall.
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