Wiggle-High5 managed to get two thirds of their team onto the podium at Tuesday’s Tour of Guangxi Women’s Elite World Challenge. The team was pipped to the post by BePink’s Maria Vittorio Sperotto, but Amy Cure pushed the Italian all the way to the line with Lucy Garner just behind her teammate in third place.
“Considering we’re only with three, we really pulled together as a team, so to get second and third… we’re so happy with that,” Garner said. “It started off pretty steadily, with everybody just getting into it, and then when we made the turn it was quite full on.”
“There were a lot of attacks going, but we were just trying to sit in the wheels and save as much energy as possible. We didn’t know how our fitness was going to be coming into this - we’re kind of in our off-season now - but we did what we could, and to get two of us on the podium, we should be happy with that.”
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It was the first running of the Tour of Guangxi Women’s Elite World Challenge, which coincided with the final stage of the inaugural men’s Tour of Guangxi.
Elvin takes home sprint prize in Guangxi
Orica-Scott missed out on the podium in the final Tour of Guangxi standings, but Gracie Elvin gave them something to cheer about. The 28-year-old claimed the sprint competition after taking two of the three intermediate sprints in the 110km event.
“Georgia Williams did a great job of leading Gracie out for the first sprint prime and then Jess Allen helped out in the second and I led Gracie out for the final one," teammate Sarah Roy explained. "She was able to win two of the primes to secure the overall win in this which was great for us to take from today's race, the final UCI race of the season for us.”
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