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Demi Vollering won the world title a week before this race. The cyclist dominated the season, winning among other things the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia.
A week after winning her first world title, the Dutch Demi Vollering also took gold in the women's road race at the European Road Cycling Championships, underway in Slovenia.
The champion reached the finish line alone, preceding by a handful of seconds her compatriot Puck Pieterse and the Swiss Marlen Reusser, second and third respectively in the sprint where they preceded Elisa Longo Borghini, who came fourth.
The Italian had instead won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Canada, behind Voellering and the Polish Kasia Niewiadoma, who today instead fell a few kilometers from the finish line, finishing in sixth place.
This season, in addition to the World and European Championships, the Dutchman Vollering won the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the Tour of Flanders and the Flèche Wallonne, just to name the most important successes.

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