The women deliver an exciting affair for the more than 10,000 spectators. A five-strong leading group emerges with the two Swiss riders Jolanda Neff and Sina Frei. Anne Tauber from the Netherlands dictates the pace and breaks into the group on lap three of seven. Jolanda Neff follows the speed skater and the gap to the three chasers Kate Courtney, Sina Frei and Rebecca McConnell grows to 20 seconds.

Tauber is the strongest on the climb, Neff makes up time in the technical sections. But on the fourth lap, Tauber tears a gap and rides solo from this point on. Kate Courtney has to repair a rear wheel defect, but is able to hold on to the chasing group.

Jolanda Neff's strength is waning. "No, I didn't overdo it. I'm just not ready yet and on this course you have to be one hundred percent fit. I'm working on making sure that's the case by the summer," says the European champion, explaining why she is falling behind the chasers.Meanwhile, Kate Courtney picks up the pace, reduces her gap to Tauber to three seconds, but loses ground again on the downhill.
For Anne Tauber, the drama takes its course when she makes a momentous decision on the final lap. In the so-called "Expert Climb", a difficult root climb, she decided to jump off her bike. "I was a bit nervous and thought I might be able to gain some time if I ran," says Tauber.

What happens next? She can't get off the pedal, falls on her side and the chain falls out of the lead. "I lost a lot of time putting it back on," she says.
So Courtney goes past and takes win number three of the season.

Tauber drops back to sixth position, overtakes Jolanda Neff again and then has another problem with the chain.
22-year-old Sina Frei, who is actually still eligible to compete in the U23 category, rides a cool race and doesn't let herself get rattled by position battles. She duels with Kate Courtney for a while, but when she goes, she sticks to her rhythm.

From behind, she was overtaken again by Rebecca McConnell and then by Haley Smith from Canada, who finished sixth in the World Championships, but Sina Frei rode to a strong fourth place.
"I tried to find my rhythm and I succeeded. It pays off in the end if you only look after yourself," explains Frei. "Of course it's super nice, it's a cool feeling to be on the podium. The race was super tough, so it's all the better. I didn't have such a good day in Albstadt and I was hoping that I could show what I train every day here."

Linda Indergand doesn't get off to the best of starts, but then finds her feet and makes up position after position. In the final stage, she finds herself in a group of three with Malene Degn from Denmark and Anne Terpstra from the Netherlands.

She didn't quite manage to be first in the final downhill, so Malene Degn snatched fifth place from her. "It was a bit of a shame that I didn't quite have the power at the start, but then I found a good rhythm. I always tried to be the first in the group on the downhills, but in the end it didn't work out. I'm happy with the race, I needed one like this for once," explained Indergand, who finished sixth 1:34 minutes behind and missed the five-person podium by just one second.

Jolanda Neff loses her fifth position due to a tire failure on the last lap. "That didn't really help," she says with a smile. She finished eighth, 2:13 minutes behind.

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