Chiara Consonni’s victory in Nijlen © UAE Team ADQ – SprintCycling
Chiara Consonni and Belgium: one liaison which is renewed season after season. If the 2022 success at Dwars door Vlaanderen undoubtedly remains the highest point of his still young career, the rich collection of winning sprints of the last three years reaffirms his value and prestige within the exclusive club of fast wheels at female.
SPAR Flanders Diamond Tour 2024, the race chronicle
The 25 year old from Bergamo UAE ADQ he thus placed his third seal of the year in the SPAR Flanders Diamond Tour (Nijlen-Nijlen, 136 km without the shadow of an overpass, but with two paved sectors, the Bogaertseheide and the Nieuwe Bevelsteenweg, to be repeated 11 times, as many as the laps of the circuit), a young classic on the Belgian calendar which had already seen her excel in 2022.
There were no real escapes during the match, but rather a continuous search for attacks and counter-attacks which produced a notable selection, so much so that the challenge for success was a group made up of 25 units, who took the advantage about 75 kilometers from the end. The presence of several gregaries in this group meant that it quickly gained a good margin, which was destined to remain considerable until the finish line (3’18” gap of the second group from the first to the finish).
Get to the point, Chiara Consonni it benefited from a perfect train leadout UAE ADQ formed by Federica Venturelli and Lara Gillespie, and impressed the Finn Anniina Ahtosalo (Uno-X Mobility) – already beaten a month ago by her multi-purpose sister at the GP Eco-Struct – and the Austrian Kathrin Schweinberger (CERATIZIT-WNT). The other Italian Ilaria Sanguineti (Lidl-Trek) also registered for the sprinters’ festival, finishing fifth at the finish line in the Flemish town.
Consonni is increasingly at ease on Flemish roads
The sprinter from Ponte San Pietro becomes the third highly decorated in the history of the race after the Dutch Lorena Wiebes – who scored a double in 2019 and 2021 – and the Belgian Jolien d’Hoore, who inaugurated the golden book of SPAR Flanders with a trio from 2014 to 2016.
The victory in Nijlen offers the opportunity for an interesting statistical note: Consonni he achieved almost half of his victories (17 in total) on the roads of Belgium. In addition to the results already mentioned previously, the cyclist from Lombardy left her mark at the Ronde de Mouscron 2021, the Dwars door de Westhoek 2022 and the Grote Prjis Bereens and the Trofeo Maarten Wynants 2023.
