T&T's ace women's cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell's as­pi­ra­tions of be­com­ing the Us­ain Bolt con­tin­ue to grow.

On Sun­day, the lanky rid­er con­tin­ued her up­ward spi­ral on the third stage of the Giro Rosa in Italy, which con­sist­ed a large field of rid­ers from around the world. But while Camp­bell shut to the lime­light with an ear­ly blitz of the 139.9-kilo­me­tre grind, by mov­ing im­pres­sive­ly to the front of the main pelo­ton, she could not main­tain it and fell to a fi­nal stage po­si­tion of 102nd rid­ing for her Team Val­car Trav­el Ser­vice.

The race was even­tu­al­ly won by Mar­i­anne Vos of the Nether­lands who con­quered all in the pun­ish­ing­ly steep climb in­to As­sisi in the end. Af­ter the pelo­ton en­tered the fi­nal kilo­me­tre to­geth­er, a group of six rid­ers dropped the rest on the 15 per cent chal­leng­ing slopes.

In the end, Vos was the strongest, beat­ing Ce­cilie Ut­trup Lud­wig (FDJ Nou­velle-Aquitaine Fu­tur­o­scope) and Elisa Lon­go Borgh­i­ni (Trek-Segafre­do) to the line and tak­ing her 26th Giro Rosa stage win. An­ne­miek van Vleuten (Mitchel­ton-Scott) did not fol­low the punchi­er rid­ers’ moves but paced her­self on the climb. She lost on­ly a few sec­onds of her lead to fin­ish in fifth place, de­fend­ing the pink jer­sey of the over­all leader.