Chiara Consonni (Canyon-Sram) won the revived Philadelphia Cycling Classic on Sunday in a crash-marred sprint finale.<\/p>\n
The Italian rode her way through the 20-strong lead group in the final straightaway, crossing wheels with Canadian national champion Maggie Coles-Lyster (Human Powered-Health) who hit the deck along with a few other riders. Consonni kept navigating her way through the group to take the first win in this race since it was last held in 2016.<\/p>\n
Alexandra Volstad (EF-Education-Oatly) finished second While Ella Sabo snagged third for Virginia\u2019s Blue Ridge \u2013 TWENTY28.<\/p>\n
Attritional racing whittled the 116-strong field down to only about 50 riders in the peloton by the final lap of the 100-kilometer circuit race.<\/p>\n
A five-strong break of Emma Langley (Aegis x Leaders of Enchantment), Elisa Valtulini (Vini Fantini \u2013 BePink), Rachel Galler (FTP \u2013 Fulfil The Potential \u2013 Racing), Galen Bolard (Competitive Edge Racing), and Kim Stoveld (Automatic-Abus Racing) led the race into the final lap.<\/p>\n
Stoveld, a Philadelphia native, had a great day in the break in front of her hometown crowds, but the WorldTour teams in the field had their eyes set on victory.<\/p>\n
The day ended for the break halfway through the final of four laps entering the daunting Manayunk Wall, a grueling half-mile, 17-percent marquee feature of this historic course that was first run in 1985. EF Education-Oatly and Canyon-Sram hit the front and soon created a strong new lead group of Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Oatly), Chiara Consonni (Canyon-Sram), Babette van der Wolf (EF Education-Oatly, Agnieszka Skalniak-S\u00f3jka (Canyon-Sram), and Megan Guarnier (CCB p\/b Levine Law Group).<\/p>\n
They held a 20-second advantage to the greatly reduced peloton that was throttled by the Manayunk Wall, reducing from 50 to 20 riders.<\/p>\n
But the peloton stayed in the race, pulling the leaders back by 12.5km to go. EF tried a couple of attacks but were quickly reeled back. There was a constant barrage of attacks through the finale of the race, but nothing stuck as strong teams like Canyon-Sram and Human Powered-Health worked to ensure the race ended in a sprint.<\/p>\n
A move at 4km to go from Van der Wolf lit up the final pass of the Lemon Hill climb, creating separation with a couple more riders, but no one wanted to work with Van der Wolf and the promising looking attack was neutralized with 1.4km to go.<\/p>\n
The finale came down to a chaotic bunch sprint as Consonni made her way through the group to take the victory in the United States\u2019 highest ranked UCI race.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2289327882.jpg”] Will Tracy Updated August 30, 2026 10:32AM Chiara Consonni (Canyon-Sram) won the revived Philadelphia Cycling Classic on Sunday in a crash-marred sprint finale. The Italian rode her way through the 20-strong lead group in the final straightaway, crossing wheels with Canadian national champion Maggie Coles-Lyster (Human Powered-Health) who hit the deck along […]<\/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-2119500","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\/2119500","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=2119500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}