won the penultimate stage<\/a> to snatch the leader’s yellow jersey from Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney and carry an eight-second lead into Sunday’s finale.<\/p>\nThe fifth edition of the race culminated with a 99.2km mountain stage, beginning and ending in Nice, which featured four ascents of the Col d’Eze and totalled 2,100m of climbing.<\/p>\n
Niewiadoma-Phinney’s British team-mate Zoe Backstedt pushed the pace in the early stages before former race leader Marlen Reusser crashed on the second descent of the Col d’Eze.<\/p>\n
Reusser was third in general classification, 72 seconds behind Vollering, and although the Swiss rider could finish, she was unable to get back in contention.<\/p>\n
That left previous race winners Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney to battle it out and, just as Vollering did on Saturday, she pulled clear of her Polish Canyon-SRAM rival just before cresting the final climb and stretched her lead on the descent.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old went on to finish more than a minute ahead of her rivals as she claimed her third stage win from nine in this year’s race.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never won wearing the yellow jersey before,” said Vollering. “It’s not only the dream to win in yellow here, to win a second Tour de France, but it’s the dream to live this life, to work hard together with people with a lot of passion. I think that’s the whole dream. It’s incredible.”<\/p>\n
Niewiadoma-Phinney felt Vollering’s team-mate Celia Gery delibrately blocked her during stage eight, so Vollering wanted to prove a point with Sunday’s emphatic victory.<\/p>\n
“I went alone because I wanted to make it clear that we didn’t win because of an incident yesterday,” she added.<\/p>\n
“That’s not what I believe, and I wanted to make it clear that we, as a team, deserve to win a beautiful Tour de France Femmes, with humility and pride.”<\/p>\n
Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney, 31, kept up their record of being on the podium in every edition of the race, while Italy’s Elisa Longo Borghini, 34, claimed her first top-three finish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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