Annemiek Van Vleuten, Dutch of Team Movistar, won the 2022 edition of the Giro Donne in Olbia, her fourth personal, the second in a row, the eleventh of a cyclist from the Netherlands in the last thirteen editions.
In the last stage, Sassari-Olbia, 126 km, Chiara Consonni (Uae Emirates) won the sprint on Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) who had won on the same finish line a year ago. Annemiek Van Vleuten, who also dominated the points and gpm classifications, has won two Giri d'Italia, two Vueltas, a Tour de France in sequence and, in a few weeks, will try to complete the en plein of the big women's stage cycling races for the second year in a row.
Then, on the threshold of 41 years (she turns them in October), the reigning world champion will close a career extraordinarily full of successes.
Marta Bastianelli, on the other hand, got off her bike after crossing the finish line in viale Aldo Moro. She had already announced that she would leave competitive cycling which, in almost twenty years of career, has reserved her the joy of 55 successes, including the 2007 Stuttgart World Championship, the Glasgow European Championship in 2018, an Italian title and a Giro of Flanders. On the podium of the Giro also the French Juliette Labous (Dsm) and Gaia Realini (Lidl Trek), who in addition to the blue one of the best Italian also wins the white jersey of the Youth.