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Jenny Rissveds returns to winning ways in Lenzerheide

Swede Jenny Rissveds last won the World Cup in Lenzerheide in 2016 - now she is back as the winner. She pulled away from Anne Terpstra towards the end of the race. Pauline Ferrand Prevot takes third place, Sina Frei follows in fourth place and delivers another great result as an U23 rider. Jolanda Neff suffers a puncture at the end and takes eighth place.

Lenzerheide and Jenny Rissveds seem to be a good match. In 2015, she won the U23 World Cup here, a year later she celebrated her only victory to date in the elite category. And now, after practically two years away from the competition circuit due to depression, she wins again in Lenzerheide in the fifth World Cup race after her comeback.
Rissveds has a small skid at the start, but is immediately able to re-establish herself in the leading group. She holds back there until Anne Terpstra picks up the pace in the group of four.

Lenzerheide and Jolanda Neff don't seem to be a good match, at least not since major international races have been held here. Surprisingly, Terpstra's pace costs Jolanda Neff, of all people, the connection after she had been very aggressive at the start.
Her gap to the remaining leading trio quickly grew to 30 seconds. However, she has a good cushion towards the back, where Sina Frei is battling with Catharine Pendrel (Can) for fifth place.

However, the tide turned in the final lap as Jolanda Neff suffered a rear wheel defect. She is passed by Sina Frei and Catharine Pendrel, and also by Rebecca Henderson, as she changes wheels in the technical zone. Directly in front of world champion Kate Courtney, Neff heads back onto the final loop, but the US American still rides past her and takes a few points off her.

Neff is so deeply disappointed with her eighth place that she cries in the arms of her coach and then her boyfriend Luca Shaw after the award ceremony for the World Cup leader and refuses to be interviewed.

Sina Frei finishes fourth for the third time this season, but it is probably the best fourth place ever. "It's always more difficult to be able to deliver in front of your own crowd and want to show what you can do, but it's also the best in front of your own crowd and I think I put in a good performance," says Frei.

At the start, she was only in ninth place after having to take a longer line once due to crashes in front of her. "Riding with Pendrel was helpful in part because I was able to slipstream," said Frei.
On the final lap, she attacks on the asphalt climb and tears the decisive gap to the former world champion.

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