Swiss micro-climber Petra Stiasny (Human Powered Health) made history Saturday at La Vuelta Femenina\u00a0by becoming the first woman to win on the notorious summit of the Angliru.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old tamed the brutal summit on La Vuelta\u2019s 7th and final stage as Paula Blasi (UAE ADQ) confirmed herself as a new superpower of the Women\u2019s WorldTour.<\/p>\n
Blasi crossed the line second to win the red jersey in what\u2019s just the first stage-race trophy of her young career.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old Spaniard has been one of the revelations of the season, with marquee victory at E3 Saxo Classic and top-10s all through the spring.<\/p>\n Not even an MTB drivetrain could save overnight race-leader Anna van der Breggen from the merciless Angliru.<\/p>\n The SD Worx-protime veteran cracked at around 4km to go and couldn\u2019t do enough to salvage her 18-second overall advantage.<\/p>\n Van der Breggen finished second overall. Visma-Lease a Bike\u2019s French prodigy Marion Bunel took third spot on the final podium.<\/p>\n Blasi said she was made to suffer for her palmar\u00e8s-topping overall win.<\/p>\n \u201cThe best thing I could do was just not think about [the Angliru],\u201d Blasi said at the finish. \u201cI knew it would be about 50 minutes, and after 5 minutes I was already at the limit. So I said, \u2018just keep going at your pace. If you can go like this, you stay [in contention]\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cBut then I started seeing Anna van der Breggen struggling, and I said \u2018let\u2019s go for it,\u2019\u201d Blasi said.<\/p>\n For Blasi, the suffering was worth it.<\/p>\n Standing 1.60 meters tall and weighing in at around 43kg, Stiasny was made for the Angliru.<\/p>\n The Human Powered Health climber countered an initial acceleration from Blasi on the steepest slopes of the Angliru and made a relentless slow-motion TT for a historic victory.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t believe it \u2026 I\u2019m lost for words, for me it\u2019s incredible,\u201d Stiasny said at the finish.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen they announced the Angliru would be part of the Vuelta, I had only one thing in my head. For me, it was a dream to win this stage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Saturday was a landmark moment for women\u2019s cycling as the bunch took on the Angliru for the first time.<\/p>\n The Asturian monster averages 9.7 percent gradient across its 12 kilometers of rutted, pitted tarmac. With ramps pitching toward 25 percent and a 3km stretch that averages more than 15 percent, it\u2019s one of the most devastating climbs in European cycling.<\/p>\n The women\u2019s peloton \u2013 and particularly Van der Breggen \u2013 felt its full force Saturday.<\/p>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/la-vuelta-femenina-van-der-breggen-cracks-on-angliru-as-spain-finds-a-new-gc-star\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275299501-scaled-e1778332615460.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 9, 2026 07:31AM Swiss micro-climber Petra Stiasny (Human Powered Health) made history Saturday at La Vuelta Femenina\u00a0by becoming the first woman to win on the notorious summit of the Angliru. The 24-year-old tamed the brutal summit on La Vuelta\u2019s 7th and final stage as Paula Blasi (UAE ADQ) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1928122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Blasi](\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275302608.jpg?width=2048&auto=webp&quality=75&fit=cover\")
Stiasny\u00a0<\/strong>first woman to win on Angliru<\/h2>\n
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La Vuelta Espa\u00f1a Femenina stage 7 results<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n