2021 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta
Male Team 02 - 05 Sep

La Vuelta Femenina

339 Kilometers 4 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Lourdes Oyarbide
  2. Sheyla Gutiérrez
  3. Paula Patiño
  4. Annemiek van Vleuten
  5. Sara Martín
  6. Leah Thomas
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TV

The final hour of every stage will be broadcast on Eurosport and GCN.

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Timetable

This is again a morning race, with the first three stages ending around 2pm CEST while Sunday’s ‘pilgrimage’ towards Santiago is expected to finish at 1pm.

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Bonus

There will be 10-6-4″ at every road stage finish plus 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints.

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Social Media

The race’s official Twitter account is @ChallengeVuelta.

Stages

Analysis

01
Cabeza de Manzaneda - A Rúa (118.7km)
02 September
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  1. 01 Marlen Reusser Alé BTC Ljubljana 3h07'46"
  2. 02 Coryn Rivera Team DSM +22"
  3. 03 Elise Chabbey Canyon-SRAM "
  4. 30 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team +1'48"
  5. 33 Sara Martín Movistar Team "
  6. 47 Leah Thomas Movistar Team "
  7. 60 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +8'08"
  8. 64 Paula Patiño Movistar Team +8'11"
  9. 88 Sheyla Gutiérrez Movistar Team +13'21"
02
Cabeza de Manzaneda (ITT / CRI) (7.3km)
03 September
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  1. 01 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team 19'08"
  2. 02 Marlen Reusser Alé BTC Ljubljana +20"
  3. 03 Marta Cavalli FDJ Nv. Aquit. Futuroscope +28"
  4. 05 Leah Thomas Movistar Team +59"
  5. 37 Paula Patiño Movistar Team +2'14"
  6. 38 Sara Martín Movistar Team +2'15"
  7. 56 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +2'38"
  8. 114 Sheyla Gutiérrez Movistar Team +4'55"
03
Cabeza de Manzaneda - Pereiro de Aguiar (107.9km)
04 September
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  1. 01 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team 2h41'53"
  2. 02 Liane Lippert Team DSM +2'48"
  3. 03 Kasia Niewiadoma Canyon-SRAM "
  4. 25 Leah Thomas Movistar Team +7'13"
  5. 50 Paula Patiño Movistar Team +7'23"
  6. 51 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
  7. 54 Sara Martín Movistar Team "
  8. 60 Sheyla Gutiérrez Movistar Team "
04
As Pontes - Santiago de Compostela (107.4km)
05 September
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  1. 01 Lotte Kopecky Liv Racing 2h29'37"
  2. 02 Elisa Longo Borghini Trek-Segafredo "
  3. 03 Anna Henderson Jumbo – Visma +4"
  4. 16 Leah Thomas Movistar Team +12"
  5. 21 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team +16"
  6. 40 Sheyla Gutiérrez Movistar Team +25"
  7. 43 Paula Patiño Movistar Team +32"
  8. 51 Sara Martín Movistar Team +38"
  9. 53 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "

Analysis

As the men’s La Vuelta ends in Santiago in 2021, the women’s edition of the race -now a four-day event- also leaves the Madrid region for the first time in its history, with all of its stages covered in Ourense and La Coruña, in beautiful Galicia. That always means hilly terrain, more than what profiles look like, that will make for a grueling race despite stages being shorter than usual for the WWT.

The Cabeza de Manzaneda ski station acts as sort of an HQ for the event, with its first three stages starting from its roads. Stage one to A Rúa (Thursday 2nd) features the long (14.5km), yet not-so-steep (5.3%) Alto da Portela (Cat-1), while stage three (Saturday 4th), finishing just outside Ourense in Pereiro de Aguiar, includes two categorized climbs plus a 4.5% gradient on the final kilometer.

The stage set to be decisive, though, will be the mountain ITT on Friday 3rd, over 7.3 kilometers and an average gradient of 5.8%, where specialists will make a difference. Stage four (Sunday 5th), even if containing some slopes, should be more suited to the sprinters as the race draws to a close in Santiago de Compostela.