18 year old Canberra Chloe Hosking won two stages and took out the sprint classification along with her Tour win. Her MB Cycles team mate, Bridie O'Donnell, got the team off to a great start with her win in the opening individual time trial before Hosking sprinted home to claim the 78 kilometre first stage and the Tour lead . Hosking also claimed victory in the 122km third stage.

She completed the Tour in a time of 7hr18min23sec to finish nine seconds clear of China 's Zhao Na with Germany 's Marlen Johrend third at 11 seconds.

Hosking claimed the One Day International Cup race in Masterton , New Zealand last month and in her first year in the senior ranks the pace of her finishing sprint has already made an impression.

Hosking is now headed to Europe to race with the Dutch "Moving Ladies" team, run by Chris Rouw.

Comments

Chloe Hosking said of her win, "This win is just awesome”, said Hosking, who credited her ability to deliver in the stage finishes to the incredible lead up work of her MB Cycles team mates. “The team looked after me really well throughout the event, especially when I had a mechanical mishap on day three and might not have even finished the event but for their hard work.”

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