{"id":52428,"date":"2026-05-07T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/?p=52428"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:05:37","slug":"paternoster-fights-back-from-crash-to-take-another-third-place-at-la-vuelta-femenina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/paternoster-fights-back-from-crash-to-take-another-third-place-at-la-vuelta-femenina\/","title":{"rendered":"Paternoster fights back from crash to take another third place at La Vuelta Femenina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Letizia Paternoster<\/strong> showed her toughness as she picked herself up from a crash to sprint to another third-place finish on stage five of <strong>La Vuelta Femenina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Italian was caught up in a crash in the last 25km of the race and forced to chase back to the peloton, before fighting to a second top three finish in two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stage had looked to be reasonably straightforward sprint stage as the peloton chased down an early breakaway of five riders. But bad luck then struck <strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong> when Paternoster was unable to avoid a crash in front of her and hit the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josie Talbot<\/strong> was quick to react and swap bikes, before the Australian paced her teammate back to the bunch and to the front of the race ahead of the finale. <strong>Ruby Roseman-Gannon<\/strong> was then asked with positioning Paternoster for the sprint and the 27-year-old dropped off her sprinter in prime position inside the final kilometre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fighting through the pain, Paternoster once again went toe-to-toe with her rivals in the uphill kick to the finish line and was rewarded with her second third place of the race, backing up from yesterday\u2019s result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Letizia Paternoster:<br><\/span><em>\u201cI\u2019m in a lot of pain! I think this podium is a team podium, because after my crash they brought me back to the peloton and I gave my all for the team. Now we will see how I am after the crash.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">La Vuelta Femenina \u2013 Stage 5 Results:<br><\/span>1. Mischa Bredewold 2:54:07<br>2. Lotte Kopecky ST<br>3. <strong>Letizia Paternoster (Team Jayco AlUla)<\/strong> ST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letizia Paternoster showed her toughness as she picked herself up from a crash to sprint to another third-place finish on stage five of La Vuelta Femenina. The Italian was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52429,"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\/52428"}],"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=52428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52434,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52428\/revisions\/52434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}