WomensCycling.net - Race coverage, Ronde van Gelderland 2009

WomensCycling.net

Home

Latest Additions

Calendar 2009

Interviews

Photo Gallery

Links

New To Cycling?

2006 Archive (and earlier)

On this page >> Race write-up Results Comments Photos

Ronde van Gelderland

Teutenberg takes sprint and 11th win of 2009

Apeldoorn, Netherlands, 135.9km, UCI 1.2

Write-up

In a bunch sprint, Team Columbia's Ina-Yoko Tuetenberg took her eleventh victory of the season so far in Apeldoorn.

The race HQ was based in the stadium for the 2011 World Track Championships, Omnisport stadium, which has a wooden 250m velodrome one side of the stairway and an indoor volleyball facility the other. The day was warm, but windy and the course included some narrow lanes in the early kilometres. The race climbs were on roads within a National Park, before returning to Apeldoorn to a town centre finish, 500m after a tight left-hand turn and on a modern cobbled road section.

The neutralised section was the exit from Apeldoorn and took a long time due to a number of mechanical problems for riders in a number of teams. As the race began 'proper', the roads narrowed and the 200-strong peloton had to contend with a crosswind too.

A small group of riders escaped when the race turned onto the section between Epe and Olst.The group contained: Loes Gunnewijk, Mirjam Melchers and Iris Slappendal (Team Flexpoint), Chantal Beltman, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Ellen van Dijk (Team Columbia), Sarah Duester and Kirsten Wild (Cervelo Test Team), Suzanne De Goede (Netherlands), Adrie Visser (DSB Bank), Chantal Blaak, Andrea Bosman and Monique van de Ree (Team Leontien).

A crash towards the back of the peloton had serious repercussions for two riders. Both in their first race back after injuries, Australian road and time trial champion, Carla Ryan (Cervelo Test Team) and Judith Arndt (Team Columbia) were injured once again and will sit out at least the next couple of weeks of competition. Ryan was hospitalised overnight with a suspected broken jaw, whilst Arndt broke a bone in her wrist.

Onto the wider roads, the bunch slipped further back. The group at the front of the race were working together, no surprise given that the main teams had riders within the break. They raced together through to the climbs in the Veluwe National Park. A small break did not last long, so the group left the National Park together with the bunch a minute behind.

Then, Adrie Visser (DSB) and Sarah Duester (Cervelo Test Team) broke away, they built up a reasonable gap, maximum 30 seconds. Visser was obviously under orders not to work, with the bunch, containing team-mate, Marianne Vos coming back up to the break and despite Duester's encouragement, with 9km remaining, the race was back together again.

The bunch sprint in Apeldoorn was fast, but technical, with a sharp left turn 500m out, cobbles and road-calming humps along the finishing straight. Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (Team Columbia) was clearly the fastest, the sprint for second was close, taken by Rochelle Gilmore (Lotto Belisol) ahead of consistent podium placer, Emma Johansson (Red Sun Cycling). Marianne Vos (DSB Bank) was fourth and Kirsten Wild (Cervelo Test Team) fifth.

A crash in the closing metres brought down several riders in the bunch. However, all were able to cross the line, despite a couple having to walk their damaged bikes across to finish.

Back to Top

Comments

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg “It was kind of an adventurous race today. It was tough all day in the wind but with two strong Dutchies in the team, we were okay with that.”

“We thought the break was really good, but the attacks in the break started too early which stopped the momentum. In the end things weren’t looking good anymore so we decided to bring it back. The team worked really hard to get it back and then put me on the right wheels for the sprint, so it worked out really well for us."

Back to Top

Results

Position	Name	Team	Time / Gap
1	Teutenberg, Ina-Yoko	Team Columbia Highroad W	03:33:44
2	Gilmore, Rochelle	Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam	z.t.
3	Johanson, Emma	RedSun Cycling Team	z.t.
4	Vos, Marianne	DSB / LTO	z.t.
5	Wild, Kirsten	Cervelo Test Team	z.t.
6	Arnouts, Anne	RedSun Cycling Team	z.t.
7	Bras, Martine	Nationaal Team Nederland	z.t.
8	Bosman, Andrea	Leontien.nl	z.t.
9	Mustonen, Sara	Merida Ladies wv Eemland	z.t.
10	Blaak, Chantal	Leontien.nl	z.t.
11	van de Ree, Monique	Leontien.nl	z.t.
12	Brand, Lucinda	Leontien.nl	z.t.
13	Witteveen, Claudia	Restore Cycling Ladies	z.t.
14	Verhaeghe, Hannah	WV Schijndel	z.t.
15	van Vleuten, Annemiek	DSB / LTO	z.t.
16	Gunnewijk, Loes	Team Flexpoint	z.t.
17	de Goede, Suzanne	Nationaal Team Nederland	z.t.
18	van Wingerden, Josien	Leontien.nl	z.t.
19	Slappendel, Iris	Team Flexpoint	z.t.
20	Pieters, Amy	Nationaal Team Nederland	z.t.
21	van Gogh, Natalie	SwABoladies Cycling Team	z.t.
22	Tabak, Noortje	DSB / LTO	z.t.
23	Delfosse, Catherine	Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam	z.t.
24	Mackie, Emma	Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam	z.t.
25	Carroll, Katerine	USA National Team	z.t.
26	Kuiper, Suzanne	Restore Cycling Ladies	z.t.
27	Koster, Olivia	Jan vArckel/Zuidwesthoek	z.t.
28	Manderfield, Kacey	USA National Team	z.t.
29	van der Breggen, Anna	Team Flexpoint	z.t.
30	Keller, Luise	Team Columbia Highroad W	z.t.
31	Melchers, Mirjam	Team Flexpoint	z.t.
32	Schmidt, Trine	Team Flexpoint	z.t.
33	Visser, Adrie	DSB / LTO	z.t.
34	Kanis, Janneke	DSB / LTO	z.t.
35	Henrion, Ludivine	RedSun Cycling Team	z.t.
36	Elemans, Saskia	Team Flexpoint	z.t.
37	Duester, Sarah	Cervelo Test Team	z.t.
38	Pijnenborg, Mascha	RedSun Cycling Team	z.t.
39	Wrubleski, Alexandra	Team Columbia Highroad W	z.t.
40	Schwager, Patricia	Cervelo Test Team	z.t.
41	van den Brand, Daphny	WV Schijndel	z.t.
42	Phillips, Jessica	USA National Team	z.t.
43	Grimberg, Arenda	Ton van Bemmelen/Merida	z.t.
44	Aubry, Emilie	Cervelo Test Team	z.t.
45	van Paassen, Sanne	WV Schijndel	z.t.
46	Huisman, Marit	Leontien.nl	z.t.
47	Beltman, Chantal	Team Columbia Highroad W	z.t.
48	Dietel, Sandra	Cervelo Test Team	z.t.
49	Hartogs, Imke	TWC Het Snelle Wiel	z.t.
50	Hennig, Angela	DSB / LTO	z.t.

Back to Top

Photos Click on any image to enlarge >>

04_18_Gelderland_027	04_18_Gelderland_080	04_18_Gelderland_149	04_18_Gelderland_156	04_18_Gelderland_178
04_18_Gelderland_179	04_18_Gelderland_190	04_18_Gelderland_212	04_18_Gelderland_216	04_18_Gelderland_219
04_18_Gelderland_231	04_18_Gelderland_243	04_18_Gelderland_252	04_18_Gelderland_280	04_18_Gelderland_296
04_18_Gelderland_309

Back to Top

Want to contact WomensCycling.net?

The WomensCycling.net email address is

To contact the webmaster, the address is :

Type this address into the "To" line of a new email message in your email programme.

The WomensCycling.net email address is displayed as a graphic in order to reduce the amount of 'spam' email received from programmes which 'crawl' the internet for sites with addresses displayed in text and then overwhelm that address with junk, or even forge the address in junk messages that they generate and send to others. Sorry for any inconvenience this approach causes you.

Back to Top