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Stage 3

Westkapelle - Westkapelle 134.7km

Race Writeup

The final stage of the RaboSter Tour in Holland saw Columbia-Highroad women’s team make a clean sweep of all top three places on the overall classification.

The three-day event was won for the second year running by Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, taking her eighteenth victory of the season. Second was Chantal Beltman, just three seconds behind, whilst prologue winner Linda Villumsen was third at 11 seconds.

Columbia-Highroad also finished first in the teams classification, whilst Teutenberg was top rider both in the intermediate sprints and the points competitions.

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Post Race Comments

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (Team Columbia) - "It was a typically tough Dutch race, one where you have to be on the front all the time and watching out all the time. In the last stage it was all good. Chantal got in a break which was great, because she would have won the overall, so we didn’t need to chase. To be honest I would have preferred not to have won the intermediate sprints competition, because going for those sprints meant a lot of work during the stage, but I needed to go for them.

"It was tough going, very windy and some very late finishes as well, but I came through ok and managed to get the victory.”

Petra Rossner - (Team Columbia Directeur Sportif) "Taking all three podium places is a sign of how well all our team were working together. For example, Chantal was in a four-rider break in the last ten kilometres, and even though Linda and Ina knew their chances of overall victory would disappear if Chantal got a good gap, they were still cheering her on over the radio."

"It was not at all easy going, a long stage and with a lot of moves. Finally we managed to get all three top places. It’s a really exceptional result."

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Results - Top 10 - click here to see full result

Position	Name		Team	Time	Bonus / Gap
1	Bosman	Andrea	Leontien.nl	* 3:23:50	00:00:10
2	Harris	Nikki	Team Flexpoint	* same	00:00:06
3	Beltman	Chantal	Team Columbia Highroad W	* same	00:00:04
4	Koedooder	Vera	Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam	same
5	de Vocht	Lisbet	DSB Bank NederlandBloeit	3:23:56 0:06
6	Teutenberg	Ina-Yoko	Team Columbia Highroad W	3:24:03 0:13
7	de Goede	Suzanne	Nurnberger Versichering	same
8	Gunnewijk	Loes	Team Flexpoint	same
9	Villumsen	Linda Melanie	Team Columbia Highroad W	same
10	Becker	Charlotte	Nurnberger Versichering	3:24:05 0:15

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General Classification Top 10 - click here to see full GC

Position	Name		Team	Time	Gap
1	Teutenberg	Ina-Yoko	Team Columbia Highroad W	06:26:54
2	Beltman	Chantal	Team Columbia Highroad W	06:26:57	00:03
3	Villumsen	Linda Melanie	Team Columbia Highroad W	06:27:05	00:11
4	Gunnewijk	Loes	Team Flexpoint	06:27:07	00:13
5	Harris	Nikki	Team Flexpoint	06:27:10	00:16
6	Becker	Charlotte	Nurnberger Versichering	06:27:12	00:18
7	de Vocht	Lisbet	DSB Bank NederlandBloeit	06:27:20	00:26
8	Koedooder	Vera	Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam	same
9	Melchers	Mirjam	Team Flexpoint	06:27:24	00:30
10	de Goede	Suzanne	Nurnberger Versichering	06:27:26	00:32

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