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Vollering claims final stage to seal overall win in Vuelta Femenina

Madrid, May 10 (UNI) Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) retained her La Vuelta Femenina (Women's Tour of Spain) title in style on Saturday, winning the last stage of the race to confirm her position at the top of the overall classification.
The 2024 champion assured this year's title when she rode off the front of an elite group of riders
one kilometer from the finish at the top of the tough Alto de Cotobello to win the demanding 152.6-kilometer stage, which contained three mountains, and confirming her dominance as the best
climber in the race.
The final kilometers of the stage, held in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, were ridden in pouring rain, with Vollering's group chasing down a breakaway of Mavi Garcia (Liv-AlUla-Jayco)
and Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez).
With the breakaway swallowed up, Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) set a strong pace up the final climb of the day, looking to pressure Vollering and Marlen Reusser (Movistar) but was unable to shake either when the race entered the last kilometer.
Vollering then rode off the front to win her second mountain stage of the race after claiming Thursday's climb to the Lagunas de Neila, with Reusser finishing 11 seconds behind and Van der Breggen 25 seconds down.
The trio also shared the same positions in the overall classification with Vollering a minute and one second ahead of Reusser and a minute and 16 seconds on Van der Breggen, who returned to racing this year after three years coaching.
"I am very happy that I could win both mountain stages. My team was so strong again so strong, and we were always in control. I'm really happy about the whole performance with the whole team," said Vollering in her post-race interview.
The champion admitted she "was waiting for the last steep part to go for the win. I didn't have to risk anything today, I just wanted to win the stage again."
"I knew I had to wait, and that was not easy because I really wanted to go, but finally, on the last kilometer I threw in my attack and gave it everything until the finish line," she said.
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