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October 15, 2025
Tour of Chongming Island 2025 🇨🇳 (2.WWT) WE – Stage 2 – Shanghai – Chongming : 128,6 km
The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women’s road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai,
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October 15, 2025
Tour of Chongming Island 2025 🇨🇳 (2.WWT) WE – Stage 2 – Shanghai – Chongming : 128,6 km
The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women’s road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island.
Sofie van Rooijen (UAE Team ADQ) laid down a winning sprint on stage 2 of the Tour of Chongming Island turning stage 1’s close run second place into a victory celebration in Chongming on Wednesday.
Van Rooijen jumped from Elisa Balsamo’s (Lidl-Trek) wheel and while the Italian Lidl-Trek rider kept on the pressure on the left Mia Griffin (Roland Le Dévoluy) swept up the right to claim the runner-up spot while Balsamo had to settle for third.
The sprinters teams had been determined to make sure they had their chance again on the 128.6km stage from Shanghai to Chongming, chasing down a break of four that got a gap relatively late in the day of racing, with little more than 25km to go.
It included Giulia Giuliani (Roland Le Dévoluy), Catalina Soto (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi), Anne Knijnenburg (VolkerWessels) and Marina Komina (Li Ning Star Ladies). Soto was soon dropped but the remaining three worked together to carve out a margin of over 40 seconds at 16km to go, falling to around 30 seconds at 10km to go and putting the break within sight of the peloton on the long straight roads.
At 6km to go Knijnenburg dropped, leaving the two ahead forging on with a gap soon falling below 20 seconds and the peloton was breathing down their neck at 3km to go and when the catch occurred at under 2km to go the set up for a bunch sprint well underway.
In stage 1 Austrian champion Kathrin Schweinberger (Human Powered Health) crossed the line first but was relegated so Australian rider Georgia Baker (Liv AlUla Jayco) was awarded the top spot on the stage and overall, with Van Rooijen and Griffin then taking the remaining podium spots.
They both moved up a podium spot on Wednesday, leaving Van Rooijen with her first victory of the season and first Women’s WorldTour win, while Baker was fifth on stage 2 behind Cristina Tonetti (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi). That meant Van Rooijen’s win also put her in the overall lead, with the rider helped along by her move to claim top spot in the first intermediate sprint of the day.
Results :
 WE - Stage 2 </strong> - Shanghai - Chongming : 128,6 km
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The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island.
Sofie van Rooijen (UAE Team ADQ) laid down a winning sprint on stage 2 of the Tour of Chongming Island turning stage 1's close run second place into a victory celebration in Chongming on Wednesday.
Van Rooijen jumped from Elisa Balsamo's (Lidl-Trek) wheel and while the Italian Lidl-Trek rider kept on the pressure on the left Mia Griffin (Roland Le Dévoluy) swept up the right to claim the runner-up spot while Balsamo had to settle for third.
The sprinters teams had been determined to make sure they had their chance again on the 128.6km stage from Shanghai to Chongming, chasing down a break of four that got a gap relatively late in the day of racing, with little more than 25km to go.
It included Giulia Giuliani (Roland Le Dévoluy), Catalina Soto (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi), Anne Knijnenburg (VolkerWessels) and Marina Komina (Li Ning Star Ladies). Soto was soon dropped but the remaining three worked together to carve out a margin of over 40 seconds at 16km to go, falling to around 30 seconds at 10km to go and putting the break within sight of the peloton on the long straight roads.
At 6km to go Knijnenburg dropped, leaving the two ahead forging on with a gap soon falling below 20 seconds and the peloton was breathing down their neck at 3km to go and when the catch occurred at under 2km to go the set up for a bunch sprint well underway.
In stage 1 Austrian champion Kathrin Schweinberger (Human Powered Health) crossed the line first but was relegated so Australian rider Georgia Baker (Liv AlUla Jayco) was awarded the top spot on the stage and overall, with Van Rooijen and Griffin then taking the remaining podium spots.
They both moved up a podium spot on Wednesday, leaving Van Rooijen with her first victory of the season and first Women's WorldTour win, while Baker was fifth on stage 2 behind Cristina Tonetti (Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi). That meant Van Rooijen's win also put her in the overall lead, with the rider helped along by her move to claim top spot in the first intermediate sprint of the day.
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