Marta Lach takes Stage 3 win as Ashleigh Moolman Pasio holds off Annemiek van Vleuten to win Tour de Romandie Feminin

Marta Lach (Ceratizit-WNT) won Stage 3 of the Tour de Romandie Feminin in a photo finish from Tamara Dronova (Roland Cogeas Edelweiss), while Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (SD Worx) claimed overall victory. Having won the mountainous Stage 2, Moolman Pasio was in pole position to win the three-stage race, and the South African finished safely in the bunch to hold off the challenges of Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek–Segafredo) after the flatter profile final stage — a 147km ride from Fribourg and Geneve.

Ad The two-woman break of Ella Harris (Canyon-SRAM) and Quinty Ton (Liv Racing Xstra) managed to stay away for most of the day — with their advantage hitting six minutes at one point — but were hauled back in the final two kilometres of the race, setting up a bunch sprint, won by Lach. World ChampionshipsVan Vleuten to ride World Championships road race with broken elbow23/09/2022 AT 17:53 The win was Lach’s first win at WorldTour level and followed hot on the heels of Moolman Pasio’s first WorldTour level win on Stage 2; that result meant she came into Stage 3 leading the overall classification by 30 seconds, with Van Vleuten poised to further burnish her palmares should Moolman Pasio slip up.

It was Van Vleuten’s Movistar team that did the majority of the work to bring the escapees of Harris and Ton to heel, with the Spanish team looking to bring Arlenis Sierra (Movistar) to the fore after her win on Stage 1. The breakaway was swept up with 2km to go and Sierra was ferried to the front of the bunch first by Van Vleuten, whose GC hopes had gone, and then Jelena Eric.

However, she would have to settle for third after getting boxed in with Lach beating Dronova to the line. Vermeersch beats Oss, Van