Cuban Sierra continues her good pace at end of world cycling season

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 5 (ACN) The Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra was fifth in the Tre Valli Varesine, a 1.1 professional category race of the International Cycling Union (UCI) contested in the last hours in Italy by the best clubs in the world.

Sierra again close to the podium, another effort to the limit of the Cuban in this end of campaign, thanks for your efforts, the famous Movistar Team published on its institutional website and social networks.

The blue team also pointed out that in the last lap of the circuit, 12 kilometers (km) from the finish line, Sierra was in the lead, with the peloton broken into four groups separated by 40 seconds in total, in a race of 89 km.

The Italian Elisa Longo won, with 2:18:04 hours, while behind crossed the finish line the American Veronica Aguamanil (2:18:30) and three who timed 2:18:38, the Spanish Ante Santesteban, the Italian world champion Elisa Balsamo and the Cuban, who led a group of 10 pursuers.

Sierra, the first champion of this competition after winning the first edition in 2021, once again led Movistar Team in her debut year with this line-up, completed by Serbia's Jelena Erić and Spain's Alicia Gonzalez, Barbara Guarischi, Sheila Gutierrez and Sara Martin.