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UCI World Cup - Race 5

La Fleche Wallonne  -  97km

Belgium - 21st April 2004

Sonia Huguet Victorious

French national Sonia Huguet (Équipe de France) today won the women's Flèche Wallonne, beating German Hanke Kupfernagel (Vlaanderen-T-Interim Univega) and Lithuanian Edita Pucinskaite (Michela Fanini) by 9 and 18 seconds respectively at the finish atop the "mur d'Huy". Huguet completed the 97.5-kilometre race in two hours, 44 minutes and 4 seconds, averaging 35.7 km/h. Canadian Sue Palmer Komar (Team Canada), runner-up here last year, took fourth place this year. RONA's Geneviève Jeanson finished 30th, 44 seconds behind the winner.

Huguet led the race's decisive breakaway. She launched a solo attack with less than 10 kilometres to go, and Kupfernagel soon bridged to her. The duo reached the bottom of the mur d'Huy (average slope 12.9% with pitches at 19%) with a more than 40 second lead over the closest chasers, a main group that down to 40 riders after the successive climbs exploded the peloton of 152 starters.

Before that, two breakaways had put some animation in the race. At kilometre 16, Ina Teutenberg (Team Germany) and Japan's Miho Oki (Farm Frites) attacked. New-Zealander Meshy Holt bridged to them and the trio's lead varied from 45 seconds to 1 minutde 20 seconds for more than 50 kilometres. The peloton reeled them in in the hard Bohisseau climb, 30 kilometres to the finish. Italian Fabiana Luperini (Let's Go Finland) and Lyne Bessette (Team Canada) counter-attacked and Geneviève Jeanson (RONA) joined them. Their lead reached 30 seconds but they were absorbed by the pack 10 kilometres to the finish. Shortly after Huguet made the decisive move.

"I got myself boxed in like a junior, said Jeanson after the race. The pack swallowed me at the end of our breakaway, I was outmaneuvered on these narrow roads and I never managed to get back in position near the front. When Huguet and Kupfernagel went, I couldn't do anything. I guess this race is to be added to my 'education and learning' file."

This result leaves Australian Oneone Wood in the Leader's Jersey for another start. Her lead has opened again from just 28 points to 48 points. With the winner of each World Cup race receiving 50 points, the competition is far from over....... Round 6 is in Canada at the end of May.

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The World Cup comprises 9 rounds  throughout the season.

World Cup 2004 

Round 

Date

Event

Country

1

29.02.2004

Women's World Cup - Geelong

AUS

2

20.03.2004

Primavera Rosa

ITA

3

28.03.2004

Gran Premio Castilla y Leon

ESP

4

04.04.2004

Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres

BEL

5

21.04.2004

La Flèche Wallonne

BEL

6

29.05.2004

La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal

CAN

7

28.08.2004

GP Ouest France - Plouay

FRA

8

05.09.2004

Lowland International Rotterdam Tour

NED

9

12.09.2004

Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt

GER

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Full Result     Data from www.UCI.ch

Rank LastName FirstName Team Code Time Avg. Speed
1 HUGUET Sonia FRA 02:44:04 35.656 km/h
2 KUPFERNAGEL Hanka VLL 02:44:13  
3 PUCINSKAITE Edita MIC 02:44:22  
4 PALMER-KOMAR Susan CAN 02:44:24  
5 ARNDT Judith NUR 02:44:24  
6 WOOD Oenone AUS 02:44:24  
7 WORRACK Trixi NUR 02:44:24  
8 BRANDLI Nicole MIC 02:44:24  
9 GOLLAN Olivia AUS 02:44:24  
10 HEEB Barbara LIE 02:44:24  
11 CARRIGAN Sara AUS 02:44:33  
12 SENFF Theresa GER 02:44:33  
13 DOPPMANN Priska SUI 02:44:33  
14 BEUTLER Annette LIE 02:44:35  
15 GRIMBERG Arenda TSC 02:44:36  
16 VANDROMME Sharon VLL 02:44:38  
17 ZABIROVA Zoulfia LGF 02:44:41  
18 VALEN Anita TSA 02:44:41  
19 BESSETTE Lyne CAN 02:44:41  
20 HANSEN Trine TSA 02:44:41  
21 SOMARRIBA ARROLA Joane BIZ 02:44:41  
22 MELCHERS Mirjam FAR 02:44:44  
23 THURIG Karin SUI 02:44:46  
24 POLIKEVICIUTE Jolanta USC 02:44:48  
25 PITEL Edwige FRA 02:44:48  
26 LUPERINI Fabiana LGF 02:44:48  
27 POLKHANOVA Valentina NRG 02:44:48  
28 SLYUSAREVA Olga NRG 02:44:48  
29 ZUGNO Anna SAF 02:44:48  
30 JEANSON Geneviève RON 02:44:48  
31 BRAVO SOBA Rosa Maria ESP 02:44:48  
32 WRIGHT Alison NRG 02:44:48  
33 LE FLOCH Magali FRA 02:44:55  
34 PIETERS Cindy VLL 02:45:04  
35 LJUNGSKOG Susanne TSA 02:45:04  
36 DEMET-BARRY Deidre BAS 02:45:04  
37 GUNNEWIJK Loes OND 02:45:09  
38 VAN DAMME Evy BEL 02:45:09  
39 DAHLE Gunn-Rita SAF 02:45:11  
40 STOLBOVA Svetlana RUS 02:45:13  
41 RUANO SANCHON Teodora ESP 02:45:33  
42 OKI Miho FAR 02:45:33  
43 BELTMAN Ghita BIZ 02:45:36  
44 HEMSLEY Margaret NUR 02:46:22  
45 LONGHIN Katia MIC 02:46:38  
46 BATES Katherine TVB 02:46:42  
47 HEAL Rachel FAR 02:46:53  
48 VAN DER ZEE Anouska FAR 02:46:53  
49 BAHLER Liane GER 02:46:55  
50 DE GOEDE Suzanne TVB 02:46:58  
51 REEKIE-MAY Rosalind NZL 02:47:06  
52 BELTMAN Chantal OND 02:47:07  
53 VAN ESSEN Sharon OND 02:47:10  
54 MORENO ALLUE Maribel ESP 02:47:31  
55 MOORE Amy CAN 02:47:31  
56 POLIKEVICIUTE Rasa USC 02:47:37  
57 INGELS Veerle VLL 02:47:39  
58 KARPENKO Valentina UKR 02:47:40  
59 GOOR Sofie WTV 02:47:40  
60 CHEVANNE-BRUNEL Elisabeth FRA 02:47:43  
61 OVCHARENKO Nina UKR 02:47:49  
62 CURI Kathryn RON 02:47:49  
63 DALMAIS DEPINE Karine FRA 02:47:51  
64 SAFE Amy AUS 02:47:52  
65 CHUZHYNOVA Iryna SAF 02:47:52  
66 KIESANOWSKI Joanne Marie NZL 02:47:55  
67 HOSTETTLER Irene SUI 02:47:58  
68 GROVE Katrina RON 02:47:58  
69 GRAHAM Lorian AUS 02:47:58  
70 SIMONOVA Iryna UKR 02:47:58  
71 MARTISOVA Julia RUS 02:48:03  
72 CORNEO Sigrid NRG 02:48:05  
73 GOLDSMITH Charlotte GBR 02:48:05  
74 CLEMILDA FERNANDES Silva USC 02:48:05  
75 MILLER Meredith TSA 02:48:05  
76 NEWSTEAD Frances GBR 02:48:05  
77 WIESER Isabella LIE 02:48:05  
78 BELLETER Véronique VLL 02:48:05  
79 KACHALKA Nataliya UKR 02:48:05  
80 GROENVELD Josephine TVB 02:48:12  
81 HIERCKENS Corine BEL 02:48:16  
82 TRAXEL Sonja SUI 02:48:18  
83 VAN DEN BROEKE Irene TSC 02:48:18  
84 STUMPF Claudia GER 02:48:18  
85 HYLAND Michelle NZL 02:48:28  
86 SCHLEICHER Regina SAF 02:48:49  
87 URBONAITE Zita SAF 02:48:49  
88 HOLT Melissa Jane NZL 02:49:52  
89 RUTHERFORD Hayley MIC 02:51:58  
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