Back to Top

Post Race Comments

Judith Arndt was very happy to have regained the leaders jersey, “It’s all very unexpected because of all those injuries, but I’m also really pleased I could do so well,” Arndt said afterwards.  “There are a lot of top class riders here, so to be able to come back and beat them is very good for my confidence. But it’s fun, too!  My tactics were very straightforward in the hilly time trial, just go all out from the start because even if there were a lot of changes of gradient, it was only just over two kilometres long.”

Arndt’s collarbone no longer troubles her, although she says that her wrist, which she broke in April, remains painful. “My wrist injury still hurts a little during the races, and more afterwards, but so long as I’m careful,  I’m ok.  I went through a tough time psychologically this spring after doing so much training on the rollers with no racing, and I’m still nervous sometimes during races because the doctors say that I could break my wrist if I crash on it.”

While very satisfied with her achievements, Arndt says that she will do her best to defend the yellow leader’s jersey and see if she can take her first stage race win since the Tour of Tuscany last September.  “There are two stages to go and they’re both undulating, so I’ll have to be equally careful in both. My lead’s less than 10 seconds and anything could happen.  But in any case I’m not the only rider Columbia-Highroad has for the overall, so when it comes to defending the lead, we’ve got several different options. That could be very important"

Back to Top

Results - Top 10 - click here to see full result

Position              Name                   Team 

1                         Nicole Cooke        Vision 1

2                         Judith Arndt         Team Columbia Highroad

3                         Noemi Cantele    Bigla Cycling

Back to Top

General Classification Top 10 - click here to see full GC

To come

Back to Top

Photos   Click on any image to enlarge >>

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