Lucinda Brand (Team Sunweb) won the eighth stage of the Giro Rosa in dramatic fashion. The Dutchwoman went on the attack on the day’s only categorised climb. As she climbed, she passed Janneke Ensing (Alé Cipollini) an earlier escapee and began to claw her way up to lone leader Tatiana Riabchenko (Lensworld Kuota).
Twenty-eight kilometres from the finish, over the top of the GPM, Riabchenko led Brand by around one minute. One of the best descenders in the bunch, Brand put her downhill skills to good use as she chased Riabchenko down to the finish line. The gap was down to 30-seconds at the 10-kilometre mark.
Brand made contact with Riabchenko before the final three kilometres. The pair were flying to the finish when Brand crashed. Quick to scramble back on her bike, Brand managed to catch Riabchenko a second time just inside the final three kilometres.
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Brand, who has previously won two Giro Rosa stages, promptly dropped Riabchenko. Across the finish line in Palinuro, Brand celebrated alone. Riabchenko came in 11-seconds later. Defending champion Megan Guarnier (Boels-Dolmans), who sits fourth overall, led the reduced peloton home at 1:33.
Race leader Anna van der Breggen (Boels-Dolmans) finished on the same time as her teammate alongside all the overall contenders. The maglia rosa heads into the weekend with a 1:03 advantage over Elisa Longo Borghini (Wiggle-High5) and 1:39 over Annemiek van Vleuten (Orica-Scott) with two stages left to race.
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