Québecoise earns her first pro victory and rides into the blue jersey with a spectacular 40 kilometer attack.
Clara Emond won stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia women with a 40-km solo raid across the Romagna-Apennines.
The Canadian, from Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Québéc, rode into the blue jersey reserved for the best climber in the Italian grand tour and earned her first-ever pro win atop the climb to Urbino.
She had ridden across to the early breakaway and then dropped them over the summit of the climb to San Marino, 94 kilometers into the race. Once she was alone, she never looked back. Clara was on a mission today.
“Today, the goal was to be super aggressive and bounce back from the last stages,” Clara said after she had celebrated with her teammates. “We didn’t have the beginning of the tour we wanted, so we took a chance at the beginning, kept attacking, and at some point it went. I knew on the climb that if I would gain a small advantage there, I could hold on, but I thought the others would catch me. They never did. I really started to believe in it on the last climb. It feels really special to have my first win here at the Giro.”
