Success number 50 in the career for the Italian champion, already winner of two laps of Flanders
Triumph of Elisa Longo Borghini in the classical ‘through female Flanders. The Italian champion, already the winner of two laps of Flanders, has detached all 30 km from the finish when he increased the laps and undertaken a solitary action that led her to get involved in the victory, the first in this Belgian race. The bearer of the UAE ADQ team gave a show resisting the return of the pursuers and cutting the finish line with arms raised in the tricolor jersey. For Longo Borghini – which crossed the finish line with a margin of 29 ” on the pursuers – it is an even more special success because it is the number 50 of his career.
The other Italians are also good
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In Flanders, however, other Italians were also able to rejoice: from Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek), who closed in third place and who in the sprint of the jokes had to bow to the world champion Lotte Kopacky, to Vittoria Guazzini and Maria Giulia Confalonieri who offered a capital performance, closing respectively in seventh and eighth position.