Race round up: Jasmin Glaesser takes first UCI win at Tour of the Gila

Tour of the Gila

I have the best teammates, despite a tough day yday they had my back and helped me get my first UCI stage win! ?? pic.twitter.com/G14rO90FX7

— Jasmin Duehring (@JasminDuehring) May 6, 2016

Jasmin Glaesser of Rally Cycling stormed her way to her first UCI win with a victory in Stage 2 at the Tour of the Gila. Glaesser spent the day in the breakaway in the Inner Loop Road Race and edged out Leah Thomas (Twenty16-Twenty16-RideBiker) to take the win by 3-seconds. The victory moved Glaesser into fourth place in the general classification. Her 19-year-old Rally teammate Sara Poidevin sits seventh overall after Stage 2. With the win, Glaesser took the lead in the sprint competition and the young rider classification. Poidevin holds second place in young riders classification.

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#Repost @rallycycling with @repostapp. ・・・ @jglaesser took stage 2 of the @tourofthegila by storm! Glaesser infiltrated the day’s breakaway and then out powered Leah Thomas (Twenty16-RideBiker) to take the win in the Inner Loop Road Race. With her win Glaesser also took over the lead in both the best young rider and sprint competitions. Photo by @cbgphoto. @diamondbackbike @lazersport @borah.teamwear @hedwheels @sramroad @clifbarcompany @arundelbike #rallyhealth #rallycycling #gila30

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“I am really excited to make up for a tough day yesterday with the help of all my teammates,” said Glaesser. “We defended our jerseys and got the stage win, which is what we set out to do. I am looking forward to fighting through the last half of the race to keep the momentum going towards the Amgen Tour of California.”

Sara Poivedin finished fourth on Stage 1 that took the peloton 113-km from Silver City to Mogollon. She was 2:34 back from winner Mara Abbott who leads the GC.

Alexander Cataford of Silber Pro Cycling finished fifth on Stage 2. Rally Cycling teammates Rob Britton and Adam De Vos finished sixth and seventh. In the GC, Britton sits second overall 25-seconds back of from Lachlan Morton (Jely Belly powered by Maxxis) while Cataford is sixth overall and Matteo Dal-Cin is nint 2:15 back from Morton. Britton finished second to

In Stage 1, Britton finished second to  Lachlan Morton 25-seconds back from the winner. Cataford was seventh and Dal-Cin rounded out the top-10 back 2:09 from Morton.

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Here's the finish bike in all her glory. Crashed into the guys who crashed into the dog. Kept riding, almost made it back, derailleur exploded with 4K of climbing left. Started walking to make time cut, flagged down a spectator with this mint '82 ish stump jumper, upgrade from walking, left my bike as collateral, he wasn't going anywhere on it. Rode her in with plenty of time. Picture cred @jkneve #elevatecycling #ridelikecaleb @davetowleannouncer @robear92

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Zack Allison of Elevate Cycling had been involved in a crash in Stage 1 because of a dog that ran out in front of the group he was riding in with four kilometres left in the stage. Allison apparently flagged down a fan who was riding down the final climb and traded bikes with him. He hopped on the ’82 Specialized Stump Jumper and rode it to the finish line. Allison was able to finish the stage and posted a photo after on his Instagram account with the distinctively non-racy bike outfitted with a rack and flat bar.

The four stage race continued with the 26.6-km Stage 3 individual time trial and finishes on Saturday with a criterium in Silver City.

Tour of Chongming Island World Cup

Great teamwork today, 2nd on the stage, motivated for the next 2 days here in China #UCIWWT ? https://t.co/z9ao5BpxAT

— Leah Kirchmann (@L_Kirch) May 6, 2016

Leah Kirchmann finished second on Stage 1 of the Tour of Chongming Island. The 139.8-km first stage of the three-stage tour of Chongming Island continues tomorrow with a 112-km stage.