Tour of Chongming Island 2026 – Stage 3 [FULL STAGE] (ladies)

October 11, 2026

Tour of Chongming Island 2026 🇨🇳 (2.WWT) WE – Stage 3 – Chongming – Chongming : 108,6 km

Tour of Chongming Island is a UCI Women’s WorldTour multi-stage road race across the predominantly flat terrain of Chongming Island, combining wide paved roads, open agricultural landscapes and fast urban sections. The route typically features three stages with minimal elevation gain, placing the emphasis on sustained speed, positioning and repeated accelerations rather than climbing ability. Short rises are rare, with most roads remaining flat and gradients generally below 3%. The main challenges come from exposed coastal roads, crosswinds and long straight sections where the peloton can split into echelons. Riders must remain attentive to changes in wind direction and position themselves near the front before narrow passages and finishing circuits. Breakaways can form early, but the flat profile allows sprint teams to organize the chase and control the race. High-speed positioning becomes increasingly important in the closing kilometres, where lead-out trains compete for space. Stage finishes generally favor bunch sprints, although crosswinds and late attacks can produce reduced groups or breakaway victories.

Unbeatable sprinter Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) completed her clean sweep of stage victories on stage 3 of the Tour of Chongming Island on Sunday to also seal overall victory in the final Women’s WorldTour race of the season.

With every day in China pan-flat, every stage has culminated in a bunch sprint, and every stage has seen Wiebes beat Lara Gillespie (UAE Team L’IMAD) to the line, and the final stage was no different.

Once again, it was a relatively close-run sprint by Wiebes’ standards, but she powered to the line just ahead of Gillespie to make it three from three.

Tang Xin of Chin rounded out the top three with an impressive third for the home national team.

Wiebes and Gillespie took the top two overall spots, with Clara Copponi (Lidl-Trek) rounding out the GC podium.

“This was another good day. We tried to secure the polka-dot jersey with Lisa van Belle. She attempted to surprise Sofie van Rooijen by coming from behind, but Van Rooijen spotted it quickly and responded. I then took the sprint to keep the mountains jersey within our team. In that classification, Lisa and I finished first and second,” Wiebes said.

“After that, we maintained good control of the race. There was an attack, but Femke Markus managed it well. The other teams had their sights set on the intermediate sprint and closed the gap. We knew there would be more attacks afterwards. One more breakaway went clear, but Femke Markus and Femke Gerritse controlled it well.

“That left Lisa van Belle, Barbara Guarischi and me in the sprint train. I briefly lost them in the chaos, but just before the final corner I found them again. We decided to use Lisa as the final lead-out rider. Barbara initiated the lead-out, and Lisa then delivered me perfectly once again. It’s great to finish this successful trip to China with a third victory.”

Traditionally, the Women’s WorldTour would have one more event in China, the season-closing Tour of Guangxi, but the one-day race has been cancelled for 2026, meaning that Sunday wrapped up this year of top-level racing.

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