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Amy Pieters (Team SD Worx) takes the sprint for stage 2 victory (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Clara Copponi (left) of FDJ Nouvelle - Aquitaine Futuroscope finishes second to Amy Pieters of Team SD Worx but takes over GC lead with second podium in two days (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Amy Pieters of Netherlands and Team SD Worx and Pfeiffer Georgi of United Kingdom and Team DSM during stage 2 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Lauren Stephens of United States and Team TIBCO - Silicon Valley Bank competes during stage 2 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
The peloton rolls along 102.2km to Walsall (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
A chilly, wet day for the peloton on stage 2 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Trixi Worrack of Trek-Segafredo (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Great Britain's Hannah Barnes of Canyon SRAM Racing (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Chloe Hosking of Trek - Segafredo and Lorena Wiebes of Team DSM sprint to cross the finish line (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
New GC leader Clara Copponi of FDJ Nouvelle - Aquitaine Futuroscope celebrates winning the Turquoise points jersey (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Clara Copponi of FDJ Nouvelle - Aquitaine Futuroscope on podium (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Amy Pieters of Team SD Worx celebrates winning stage 2 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Elise Chabbey of Team Canyon SRAM Racing celebrates winning the Green Queen of the mountains jersey (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Amy Pieters (Team SD Worx ) has won stage 2 of The Women's Tour in the sprint of a small group.
On the last of 10 laps of a rolling circuit east of Walsall, a group of 10 riders went off the front on the climb of Barr Beacon and increased its advantage to the finish.
In a fast sprint after a downhill run-in, Pieters beat Clara Copponi (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope) and Sheyla Gutiérrez (Movistar Team) to the line to win the stage.
As the peloton finished 42 seconds behind, Copponi takes over the leader’s jersey on stage placing countback. Going into the stage 3 ten-mile time trial, Pieters is second overall on the same time as Copponi. Gutiérrez in third place is six seconds behind.
How it unfolded It was a reduced peloton that set off from the Walsall Arboretum in the rain: Tanja Erath (Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank), who crashed the previous day, Emma Boogaard (Team Coop-Hitec Products), and pre-race favourite Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) had had to abandon the race on stage 1.
Additionally, Liv Racing’s Alison Jackson and Jeanne Korevaar as well as Boogaard’s teammates Caroline Andersson and Ingvild Gåskjenn could not start stage 2 due to injuries sustained in a crash in the final of stage 1.
There were intermediate sprints at Barr Common on the fourth, sixth, and eighth lap and mountain sprints at Barr Beacon on laps five, seven, and nine before returning to the centre of Walsall for the finish after 102.2 kilometres.
It was a race of attrition with riders being dropped at the back, and despite many attempts to attack, there was no real breakaway. Nina Kessler (Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank) won the first and third intermediate sprint, placing second in between, to defend her red sprint jersey.
A group of eight riders including Ella Harris (Canyon-SRAM), Gutiérrez, Christine Majerus (Team SD Worx), Liane Lippert (Team DSM), Chloe Hosking (Trek-Segafredo), Amber van der Hulst (Parkhotel Valkenburg), Maëlle Grossetête (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope), and Teniel Campbell (Team BikeExchange) briefly held a 25-second lead on the fifth lap but was reeled in before the Barr Beacon climb.
Elise Chabbey (Canyon-SRAM) won the two first mountain sprints, and this was enough to take the green QOM jersey off Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx). On the penultimate lap, a group of sixteen with, among others, Harris, Évita Muzic (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope), Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo), Pfeiffer Georgi (Team DSM), Pieters, Veronica Ewers (Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank), Elena Pirrone (Valcar-Travel & Service), Copponi, Alicia González (Movistar Team), Anna Christian, and Joss Lowden (both Drops-Le Col s/b Tempur) got away and contested the last QOM sprint 25 seconds ahead of the peloton, but they were caught again at the start of the final lap.
This final lap saw more action with several attacks, and on the lower slopes of the now-unclassified Barr Beacon climb, ten riders broke free: Copponi, Vollering, Gutiérrez, Pieters, Juliette Labous (Team DSM), Chabbey, Aude Biannic (Movistar Team), Georgi, Maaike Boogaard (Alé BTC Ljubljana), and Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Trek-Segafredo) were 30 seconds ahead at the top of the climb and increased their advantage further on the downhill run towards Walsall before sprinting for the stage win.
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Results Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Amy Pieters (Ned) Team SD Worx 2:38:03 2 Clara Copponi (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 3 Sheyla Gutierrez Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team Women 4 Audrey Cordon Ragot (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 5 Pfeiffer Georgi (GBr) Team DSM 6 Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM Racing 7 Maaike Boogaard (Ned) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 8 Aude Biannic (Fra) Movistar Team Women 9 Juliette Labous (Fra) Team DSM 10 Demi Vollering (Ned) Team SD Worx 11 Lorena Wiebes (Ned) Team DSM 0:00:42 12 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 13 Amber van der Hulst (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 14 Josie Nelson (GBr) Team Coop Hitec Products 15 Jelena Eric (Srb) Movistar Team Women 16 Sofia Bertizzolo (Ita) Liv Racing 17 Eugénie Duval (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 18 Elena Cecchini (Ita) Team SD Worx 19 Leah Kirchmann (Can) Team DSM 20 Maëlle Grossetete (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 21 April Tacey (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 22 Mari Hole Mohr (Nor) Team Coop Hitec Products 23 Soraya Paladin (Ita) Liv Racing 24 Nina Kessler (Ned) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 25 Femke Markus (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 26 Sarah Roy (Aus) Team BikeExchange 27 Alicia Gonzalez Blanco (Spa) Movistar Team Women 28 Liane Lippert (Ger) Team DSM 29 Ella Harris (NZl) Canyon-SRAM Racing 30 Alice Barnes (GBr) Canyon-SRAM Racing 31 Hannah Barnes (GBr) Canyon-SRAM Racing 32 Mischa Bredewold (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 33 Sophie Wright (GBr) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 34 Abi Smith (GBr) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 35 Elisa Balsamo (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 36 Joscelin Lowden (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 37 Chiara Consonni (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 38 Eugenia Bujak (Slo) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 39 Margaux Vigie (Fra) Valcar-Travel & Service 40 Christine Majerus (Lux) Team SD Worx 41 Evita Muzic (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 42 Natalie Grinczer (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 43 Elena Pirrone (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 44 Pien Limpens (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 45 Victorie Guilman (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 46 Marta Bastianelli (Ita) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 47 Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (Ned) Team SD Worx 48 Lourdes Oyarbide Jimenez (Spa) Movistar Team Women 49 Jade Wiel (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 50 Anna Shackley (GBr) Team SD Worx 51 Marjolein Van'T Geloof (Ned) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 52 Lauren Stephens (USA) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 53 Ilaria Sanguineti (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 54 Emma Edwards (USA) CAMS-Tifosi 55 Connie Hayes (GBr) AWOL Oshea 56 Anna Christian (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 57 Ane Santesteban Gonzalez (Spa) Team BikeExchange 58 Alice Lethbridge (GBr) AWOL Oshea 59 Elizabeth Deignan (GBr) Trek-Segafredo 60 Veronica Ewers (USA) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 61 Hayley Simmonds (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 62 Gloria Rodriguez Sanchez (Spa) Movistar Team Women 63 Becky Storrie (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 64 Janneke Ensing (Ned) Team BikeExchange 0:00:58 65 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:01 66 Pernille Larsen Feldmann (Nor) Team Coop Hitec Products 67 Femke Gerritse (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 68 Megan Jastrab (USA) Team DSM 0:01:19 69 Nicole Frain (Aus) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 0:03:15 70 Alice Towers (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 71 Teniel Campbell (TTo) Team BikeExchange 72 Danielle Christmas (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:07:18 73 Katie Scott (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 0:07:50 DNF Evy Kuijpers (Ned) Liv Racing DNF Hannah Bayes (GBr) AWOL Oshea DNF Olivia Bent (GBr) AWOL Oshea DNF Lucy Kennedy (Aus) Team BikeExchange DNS Ingvild Gåskjenn (Nor) Team Coop Hitec Products DNS Alison Jackson (Can) Liv Racing DNS Jeanne Korevaar (Ned) Liv Racing DNS Caroline Andersson (Swe) Team Coop Hitec Products
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Finish Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Amy Pieters (Ned) Team SD Worx 15 2 Clara Copponi (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 12 3 Sheyla Gutierrez Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team Women 9 4 Audrey Cordon Ragot (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 7 5 Pfeiffer Georgi (GBr) Team DSM 6 6 Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM Racing 5 7 Maaike Boogaard (Ned) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 4 8 Aude Biannic (Fra) Movistar Team Women 3 9 Juliette Labous (Fra) Team DSM 2 10 Demi Vollering (Ned) Team SD Worx 1
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Mountain 1 Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM Racing 3 2 Demi Vollering (Ned) Team SD Worx 2 3 Elizabeth Deignan (GBr) Trek-Segafredo 1
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Mountain 2 Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM Racing 3 2 Ane Santesteban Gonzalez (Spa) Team BikeExchange 2 3 Leah Kirchmann (Can) Team DSM 1
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Mountain 3 Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Ella Harris (NZl) Canyon-SRAM Racing 3 2 Elena Pirrone (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 2 3 Clara Copponi (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 1
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Sprint 1 Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Nina Kessler (Ned) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 3 2 Marta Bastianelli (Ita) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 2 3 Sofia Bertizzolo (Ita) Liv Racing 1
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Sprinit 2 Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Sofia Bertizzolo (Ita) Liv Racing 3 2 Nina Kessler (Ned) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 2 3 Sarah Roy (Aus) Team BikeExchange 1
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Sprint 3 Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Nina Kessler (Ned) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 3 2 Sarah Roy (Aus) Team BikeExchange 2 3 Teniel Campbell (TTo) Team BikeExchange 1
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Teams Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Team DSM 7:54:51 2 Movistar Team Women 3 Team SD Worx 4 FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 0:00:42 5 Canyon SRAM Racing 6 Trek-Segafredo 7 Ale' BTC Ljubljana 8 Parkhotel Valkenburg 0:01:24 9 Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 10 Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 11 Valcar-Travel & Service 12 CAMS - Basso 13 Team BikeExchange 0:01:40 14 Team Coop - Hitec Products 0:01:43 15 AWOL O'Shea 0:13:41
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General classification after stage 2 Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Clara Copponi (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 6:22:34 2 Amy Pieters (Ned) Team SD Worx 3 Sheyla Gutierrez Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team Women 0:00:06 4 Demi Vollering (Ned) Team SD Worx 0:00:09 5 Juliette Labous (Fra) Team DSM 0:00:10 6 Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM Racing 7 Aude Biannic (Fra) Movistar Team Women 8 Pfeiffer Georgi (GBr) Team DSM 9 Nina Kessler (Ned) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 0:00:38 10 Marta Bastianelli (Ita) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 0:00:40 11 Maaike Boogaard (Ned) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 0:00:45 12 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:46 13 Sarah Roy (Aus) Team BikeExchange 14 Sofia Bertizzolo (Ita) Liv Racing 0:00:48 15 Josie Nelson (GBr) Team Coop Hitec Products 0:00:52 16 Elena Cecchini (Ita) Team SD Worx 17 Leah Kirchmann (Can) Team DSM 18 Eugénie Duval (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 19 Hannah Barnes (GBr) Canyon-SRAM Racing 20 Soraya Paladin (Ita) Liv Racing 21 Ella Harris (NZl) Canyon-SRAM Racing 22 Christine Majerus (Lux) Team SD Worx 23 Eugenia Bujak (Slo) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 24 Mischa Bredewold (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 25 Joscelin Lowden (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 26 Sophie Wright (GBr) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 27 Abi Smith (GBr) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 28 Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (Ned) Team SD Worx 29 Jelena Eric (Srb) Movistar Team Women 30 Evita Muzic (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 31 Natalie Grinczer (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 32 Pien Limpens (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 33 Alice Barnes (GBr) Canyon-SRAM Racing 34 Elisa Balsamo (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 35 Victorie Guilman (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 36 Liane Lippert (Ger) Team DSM 37 Anna Shackley (GBr) Team SD Worx 38 Jade Wiel (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 39 Chiara Consonni (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 40 Lourdes Oyarbide Jimenez (Spa) Movistar Team Women 41 Lauren Stephens (USA) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 42 Ane Santesteban Gonzalez (Spa) Team BikeExchange 43 Hayley Simmonds (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 44 Ilaria Sanguineti (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 45 Elizabeth Deignan (GBr) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:18 46 Megan Jastrab (USA) Team DSM 0:01:29 47 Amber van der Hulst (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 0:02:09 48 Femke Markus (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 0:02:11 49 Veronica Ewers (USA) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 0:02:24 50 Janneke Ensing (Ned) Team BikeExchange 0:02:32 51 Connie Hayes (GBr) AWOL Oshea 0:02:37 52 Nicole Frain (Aus) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 0:03:25 53 Audrey Cordon Ragot (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:27 54 April Tacey (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:03:54 55 Margaux Vigie (Fra) Valcar-Travel & Service 56 Anna Christian (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:03:55 57 Alice Lethbridge (GBr) AWOL Oshea 58 Becky Storrie (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 59 Elena Pirrone (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 0:03:58 60 Mari Hole Mohr (Nor) Team Coop Hitec Products 0:04:09 61 Alicia Gonzalez Blanco (Spa) Movistar Team Women 62 Gloria Rodriguez Sanchez (Spa) Movistar Team Women 63 Femke Gerritse (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 0:04:22 64 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:28 65 Lorena Wiebes (Ned) Team DSM 0:04:39 66 Marjolein Van'T Geloof (Ned) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:06:30 67 Teniel Campbell (TTo) Team BikeExchange 0:06:41 68 Danielle Christmas (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:08:47 69 Emma Edwards (USA) CAMS-Tifosi 0:12:57 70 Maëlle Grossetete (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 0:13:00 71 Pernille Larsen Feldmann (Nor) Team Coop Hitec Products 0:13:22 72 Alice Towers (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:15:27 73 Kirstie van Haaften (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 0:16:14 74 Katie Scott (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 0:20:02 75 Phoebe Martin (GBr) AWOL Oshea 0:25:11 76 Jessica Finney (GBr) CAMS-Tifosi 0:25:14 77 Francesca Morgans Slader (GBr) AWOL Oshea 78 Jessica Allen (Aus) Team BikeExchange 0:33:39
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Points classifications Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Clara Copponi (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 21 2 Amy Pieters (Ned) Team SD Worx 17 3 Sheyla Gutierrez Ruiz (Spa) Movistar Team Women 16 4 Marta Bastianelli (Ita) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 15 5 Chloe Hosking (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 12 6 Audrey Cordon Ragot (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 7 7 Pfeiffer Georgi (GBr) Team DSM 6 8 Elena Cecchini (Ita) Team SD Worx 6 9 Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM Racing 5 10 Hannah Barnes (GBr) Canyon-SRAM Racing 5 11 Maaike Boogaard (Ned) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 4 12 Sofia Bertizzolo (Ita) Liv Racing 4 13 Aude Biannic (Fra) Movistar Team Women 3 14 Josie Nelson (GBr) Team Coop Hitec Products 3 15 Juliette Labous (Fra) Team DSM 2 16 Demi Vollering (Ned) Team SD Worx 1 17 Leah Kirchmann (Can) Team DSM 1
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Mountain classification Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Elise Chabbey (Swi) Canyon-SRAM Racing 10 2 Demi Vollering (Ned) Team SD Worx 9 3 Janneke Ensing (Ned) Team BikeExchange 6 4 Ella Harris (NZl) Canyon-SRAM Racing 3 5 Chiara Consonni (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 3 6 Ane Santesteban Gonzalez (Spa) Team BikeExchange 3 7 Joscelin Lowden (GBr) Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 2 8 Evita Muzic (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 2 9 Femke Markus (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg 2 10 Elena Pirrone (Ita) Valcar-Travel & Service 2 11 Clara Copponi (Fra) FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 1 12 Leah Kirchmann (Can) Team DSM 1 13 Liane Lippert (Ger) Team DSM 1 14 Elizabeth Deignan (GBr) Trek-Segafredo 1
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Sprint classification Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Nina Kessler (Ned) Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 14 2 Sarah Roy (Aus) Team BikeExchange 6 3 Sofia Bertizzolo (Ita) Liv Racing 4 4 Marta Bastianelli (Ita) Ale' BTC Ljubljana 2 5 Demi Vollering (Ned) Team SD Worx 1 6 Teniel Campbell (TTo) Team BikeExchange 1
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Teams classification Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result 1 Team SD Worx 19:08:54 2 Team DSM 3 Movistar Team Women 4 FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope 0:00:42 5 Canyon SRAM Racing 6 Ale' BTC Ljubljana 7 Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank 0:01:24 8 Valcar-Travel & Service 9 Team BikeExchange 0:02:06 10 Parkhotel Valkenburg 0:02:41 11 Trek-Segafredo 0:04:25 12 CAMS - Basso 0:04:27 13 Team Coop - Hitec Products 0:05:00 14 Drops-le Col Supported by Tempur 0:05:45 15 AWOL O'Shea 0:30:31