Marianne Vos turns tables on Charlotte Kool in sprint to win Stage 3 of La Vuelta Femenina and extend overall lead

Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) won a sprint finish against Charlotte Kool (Team DSM) to triumph at Stage 3 of La Vuelta Femenina and extend her overall lead to 13 seconds ahead of Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM). Kool beat Vos to the line on Stage 2, but a day later the tables were turned with Vos showing off her wealth of experience to beat her Dutch compatiot to the line.

Ad Vos was initially sat on Kool's wheel but then chose a different line to the DSM rider once the sprint started with 200m to go and held off the challenge of Kool, with Dygert coming in third place. Vuelta España FemeninaWatch highlights from Stage 2 of La Vuelta Femenina20 HOURS AGO The result sees Vos extend her general classification lead to 13 seconds over Dygert, with Riejanne Markus (Jumbo-Visma) a second further back and Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma) 22 seconds off the lead.

The days racing was characterised by echelons and crosswinds causing the peloton to split and multiple riders to miss out, most notably Gaia Realini (Trek Segafredo) and Kristen Faulkner (Jayco AlUla), who finished 2:41 behind the leaders. Their general classification chances are more than likely over unless they can get time back in a breakaway.

HOW THE RACE UNFOLDED: ECHELON CARNAGE SPLITS RACE APART The first rider to break away on the longest stage of La Vuelta Feminina 2023 was Kerry Jonker (Coop-Hitec) but once she was joined by a group of five containing: Sara Poidevin (EF Education-Tibco-SVB), Katia Ragusa (Liv Racing-TeqFind), Isabel Martín (Eneicat-CM Team), Giorgia Vettorello (Bepink) and Susana Pérez (Cantabria Deporte), they were all reabsorbed by the peloton. It all kicked off in the bunch over 90km from the finish as they hit the exposed Spanish roads approaching the