Male Team 07 - 11 Sep La Vuelta Femenina
La Vuelta Femenina 
476 Kilometers 5 Stages
Participants list
- Aude Biannic
- Katrine Aalerud
- Annemiek van Vleuten
- Emma Norsgaard
- Sara Martín
- Arlenis Sierra
TV
The race will be broadcast live on Eurosport and GCN + RTVE.
Bonus
There will be 10-6-4″ up for grabs at the finish of the last four stages, with 3-2-1″ bonus sprints available only at four passages over the line in the Madrid circuit, not during the rest of the event.
Score
Annemiek van Vleuten brilliantly claimed overall honours in the 2021 edition of the race, with two stage wins: the Manzaneda mountain ITT and the road stage towards Pereiro de Aguiar, the latter of those with a 3-minute margin over the rest.
Stages
Analysis
01
Marina de Cudeyo (CRE / TTT) (19.9km)
07 September
- 01 Trek-Segafredo 23'31"
- 02 Team BikeExchange +6"
- 03 FDJ – SUEZ – Futuroscope +11"
- 05 Movistar Team +25" Team: Arlenis Sierra Emma Norsgaard Annemiek van Vleuten Katrine Aalerud Sara Martín Aude Biannic
02
Colindres (106.4km)
08 September
- 01 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team 2h56'30"
- 02 Elisa Longo Borghini Trek-Segafredo +2'16"
- 03 Liane Lippert Team DSM "
- 18 Arlenis Sierra Movistar Team +4'51"
- 30 Katrine Aalerud Movistar Team +8'41"
- 37 Sara Martín Movistar Team +9'39"
- 111 Emma Norsgaard Movistar Team +26'18"
- 112 Aude Biannic Movistar Team "
03
Camargo - Aguilar de Campoo (96.4km)
09 September
- 01 Grace Brown FDJ – SUEZ – Futuroscope 2h28'37"
- 02 Elise Chabbey Canyon-SRAM "
- 03 Elisa Balsamo Trek-Segafredo +8"
- 05 Arlenis Sierra Movistar Team "
- 10 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team "
- 63 Sara Martín Movistar Team +5'02"
- 69 Aude Biannic Movistar Team "
- 70 Katrine Aalerud Movistar Team "
- 81 Emma Norsgaard Movistar Team +11'53"
04
Palencia - Segovia (160.4km)
10 September
- 01 Silvia Persico Valcar 4h11’01”
- 02 Demi Vollering SD Worx “
- 03 Elisa Longo Borghini Trek-Segafredo “
- 06 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team “
- 17 Arlenis Sierra Movistar Team +20”
- 37 Sara Martín Movistar Team +1’40”
- 73 Aude Biannic Movistar Team +3’55”
- 95 Emma Norsgaard Movistar Team +5’27”
- 97 Katrine Aalerud Movistar Team “
05
Madrid (95.7km)
11 September
- 01 Elisa Balsamo Trek-Segafredo 2h21'37"
- 02 Lotte Kopecky SD Worx "
- 03 Marta Bastianelli UAE Team ADQ "
- 13 Emma Norsgaard Movistar Team "
- 52 Annemiek van Vleuten Movistar Team +7"
- 57 Arlenis Sierra Movistar Team "
- 74 Sara Martín Movistar Team +28"
- 94 Aude Biannic Movistar Team +1'03"
- 95 Katrine Aalerud Movistar Team "
Analysis
The 2022 Giro Donne and Tour Femmes champion is back to racing. Annemiek van Vleuten will start at the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta with the final block of arguably her most successful season to date. On her road to the World Championships in Wollongong, the Olympic champion will make a stop in a Spanish race she already conquered last year, one that increases its number of stages from four to five for this edition – even if those are, except for one, really short, maybe even below what looks reasonable in the WorldTour nowadays.
A team time trial of almost 20km around Marina de Cudeyo (Wednesday 7th) will be the first main key for the overall result, which could even be defined already after stage two, the Queen of this year’s race (Thursday 8th). It’s only 106 kilometers, yet with five climbs: Fuente las Varas through two of its sides (Cat-1 / Cat-2), Cruz de Usaño (Cat-3), Campo Layal (Cat-1) and Campo la Cruz (Cat-2), the latter crested 14km from the finish in Colindres.
The race will leave Cantabria on Friday 9th, climbing Hoces de Bárcena (Cat-2) before a series of short ramps prior to the finish in Aguilar de Campoo -the second race to finish there this year, after the Vuelta a Burgos-. It will be the prelude to a marathon stage (Saturday 10th), over 160km between Palencia and Segovia, with some little climbs early on plus a challenging finish, over a gravel road with 9km to go and a cobbled slope next to the famous Aqueduct.
La Vuelta will reach Madrid again on Sunday 11th for a traditional final stage in the Spanish capital’s big avenues, 17 laps (96km) with a bunch sprint as likely scenario and the bonus sprints as main amusement.