{"id":46526,"date":"2024-05-29T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=46526"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:03:20","slug":"smulders-leads-home-liv-alula-jayco-1-2-3-on-vuelta-a-andalucia-stage-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/smulders-leads-home-liv-alula-jayco-1-2-3-on-vuelta-a-andalucia-stage-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Smulders leads home Liv AlUla Jayco 1-2-3 on Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda stage one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Silke Smulders<\/strong> broke away to her first-ever professional win as Liv AlUla Jayco<\/strong> dominated the opening stage of the Vuelta Ciclista a Andaluc\u00eda<\/strong>.
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Smulders led home a team 1-2-3 with Mavi Garc\u00eda<\/strong> taking second place and Ella Wyllie<\/strong> coming home for third.
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The Australian team controlled the stage right from the off, preventing any dangerous breakaways going up the road through much of the day. Alex Manly<\/strong> was one of those working on the front, alongside Quinty Ton<\/strong>, and she was rewarded with the climbers\u2019 jersey\u00a0after leading the bunch over the stage\u2019s lone ascent.
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After the climb, the peloton was thinned out drastically and Smulders took her moment with over 30km to go. The 23-year-old attacked and built up an advantage of almost three minutes before Garc\u00eda also launched a move off the front.
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Garc\u00eda and Smulders were united inside the final 10 kilometres of the stage and the pair rode together to the line together with the Dutch rider leading home the Spanish champion. Behind, Wyllie had also attacked from the group and was chasing down her two teammates as they contested the victory and she rounded out the podium sweep.
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Silke Smulders:<\/u><\/strong>
\u201cWe were on fire today! From the beginning, Quinty\u00a0set the pace on the climbs and Alex did amazing on the downhills. We were so strong. I went far from the finish to take the pressure of Mavi and Ella. In the end Mavi bridged over to me and we went together. I\u2019m just so proud of what we did, taking first, second, and third, and the mountain jersey. It was a really special day for me and\u00a0the\u00a0whole\u00a0team.\u201d<\/em>
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Shawn Clarke (Sport Director):<\/u><\/strong>
\u201cPretty incredible day. You don\u2019t get many days like this in bike racing so we\u2019re really going to savour it. When we looked at the stage, we knew that it was going to be super hard with tonnes of climbing. We targeted this day as the main GC day to put everything into and be aggressive. In the first part, we knew that we could let the terrain do the work and let the fatigue build in the pack and only upped the pace when we had to so that when we attacked later nobody could follow. It really was textbook racing, and it couldn\u2019t have been better.
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It was a pretty special day for the team. Not only was it our mechanic Luca\u2019s birthday but it was the birthday of our other mechanic Valentine\u2019s late mother. We knew it was a special day and everybody rode really well. We\u2019re going to have a bit of a celebration now before we turn our focus to the next three days and make sure that we can keep GC.\u201d<\/em>
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Vuelta Ciclista a Andaluc\u00eda Stage 1 Results<\/span>
1. Silke Smulders (Liv AlUla Jayco) 3:36:19
2. Mavi Garc\u00eda (Liv AlUla Jayco) st
3. Ella Wyllie (Liv AlUla Jayco) + 1:29<\/strong>
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Vuelta Ciclista a Andaluc\u00eda General Classification<\/span>
1. Silke Smulders (Liv AlUla Jayco) 3:36:19
2. Mavi Garc\u00eda (Liv AlUla Jayco) st
3. Ella Wyllie (Liv AlUla Jayco) + 1:29<\/strong>

Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silke Smulders broke away to her first-ever professional win as Liv AlUla Jayco dominated the opening stage of the Vuelta Ciclista a Andaluc\u00eda.\u00a0Smulders led home a team 1-2-3 with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46530,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46526\/revisions\/46530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}