{"id":52421,"date":"2026-05-06T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/?p=52421"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:49:01","slug":"paternoster-packs-punch-for-third-place-on-la-vuelta-femenina-stage-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/paternoster-packs-punch-for-third-place-on-la-vuelta-femenina-stage-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Paternoster packs punch for third place on La Vuelta Femenina stage four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Letizia Paternoster <\/strong>continued her streak of strong sprint performances with a super third place on stage four of <strong>La Vuelta Femenina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Italian made it three top-10 finishes in three stages on the spin after fighting over the climbs to contest another fast finale on tough stage in Galicia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth day of racing had been touted as a potential one for the breakaway and <strong>Liv AlUla Jayco <\/strong>were amongst the early attacks with <strong>Josie Talbot<\/strong>. In the end four riders did manage to escape, with the last two escapees forcing the peloton into a hard chase in the closing kilometres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the breakaway caught, the bunch battled for position with Paternoster right in the mix ahead of the tricky final kilometre. The 26-year-old swept around the last corner in fourth wheel, poised and ready to launch her kick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the drag race to the line Paternoster was unable to overhaul eventual winner Lotte Kopecky, eventually taking third place as she threw her bike for the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result makes it four top-10 finishes in the first four stages for Liv AlUla Jayco after <strong>Monica Trinca Colonel<\/strong> took 8th on stage one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Letizia Paternoster:<br><\/span><em>\u201cThird place and back on the podium in the Vuelta. We started the day hoping for a win and we worked for that in the last 20km. I wanted to finish it off, but Lotte Kopecky was too strong and in the end, I was third.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tomorrow is another opportunity. I think I have been really solid during the first part of the Vuelta with three top 10s in a row, and I am proud of myself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">La Vuelta Femenina &#8211; Stage 4 Results:<\/span><br>1. Lotte Kopecky 3:07:11<br>2. Anna van der Breggen<br>3. <strong>Letizia Paternoster (Liv AlUla Jayco)<\/strong> ST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letizia Paternoster continued her streak of strong sprint performances with a super third place on stage four of La Vuelta Femenina. The Italian made it three top-10 finishes in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52423,"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\/52421"}],"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=52421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52422,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52421\/revisions\/52422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}