With her victory at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio on Sunday, Marianne Vos (CCC-Liv) equalled Maria Canins` record of four wins at the Italian race. Vos already held a special place in the race history with victories in 2009, 2010, and 2012, and was honoured for these three wins at the team presentation Saturday evening. Less than 24 hours later, she added another victory in a race close to her heart. `It was a nice gesture at the presentation,` said Vos. `During the race there were lots of people cheering me on, so I`m happy to be here. It`s special to win here for the fourth time.` Vos continued that her team`s tactics were to tire out and drop the sprinters in a race that always comes down to a fight between climbers and sprinters.ADVERTISEMENT `It was our plan that Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio would make the race hard in the last two laps. The other girls - Jeanne Korevaar and Riejanne Markus in particular - kept the race together before that. `That was very important, so I owe this one to the team. Ashleigh attacked several times on the climbs, which led to only a small group being left in the final. I knew then that there was a chance of winning the sprint.` On the descent towards the finish, Vos was at the front of the group, closing down moves by Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott) and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Bigla), who she judged too dangerous to let go. After that, Vosī teammate Moolman-Pasio took the lead and led out the group for the sprint.
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