Traditionally the theater numerous massive sprints, the Simac Ladies Tour definitely offers us much more eventful and surprising scenarios in this 2024 edition. After the big borders of the day before, this time it was a large breakaway of 14 runners leaving around fifty from the finish which animated the final ‘a 4th stage, although not very hilly and traced around the town of Ede. The platoon has reacted far too late to hope to close the big minute delay on this solid leading group, and the victory was therefore decided in a sprint between the attackers of the day. The fastest to cross the finish line is called Barbara Guarischiwhich therefore offers a 3rd consecutive victory to the Team SD Worx – Protime on the Batavian test! Usual pilot fish Lorena Wiebeswinner of the two previous stages, the Italian was able to play her personal card in the final sprint, which she handled perfectly.
Video – No hat-trick for Lorena Wiebes on the 4th stage
Franziska Koch takes command of the general!
Stuck in theAlly Wollaston (AG Insurance-Soudal Team), Get well let the New Zealander produce her effort in the lead before taking her back to the wire, ahead of her by a few centimeters in the bike throw. Another transalpine runner, Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Uno-X Mobility), climbs onto the podium of the day, while the French Victoire Berteau (Cofidis Women Team) must be content with 10th place. The peloton was finally behind the line by 36 seconds, a sufficient gap to see Franziska Koch (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) déposséder Zoe Backstedt (Canyon // SRAM Racing) in her yellow tunic as overall leader, the German being 6th overall 31 seconds behind the young Briton this morning. The latter drops to 2nd position, 5 seconds behind the new leader, Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx-Protime) clocking in at 8 seconds.
