Reign­ing na­tion­al road cham­pi­on Te­niel Camp­bell crossed the fin­ish line in 10th po­si­tion and was giv­en the same time of two hours, 12 min­utes and four sec­onds as the stage 10 win­ner Chiara Con­son­ni of Italy, at the Giro d’Italia Donne Road Race in Italy, on Sun­day.

Camp­bell, who fin­ished stage 9 on Sat­ur­day in the 86th po­si­tion, pro­duced an out­stand­ing ride in the fi­nal stage from Abano Terme to Pado­va. It was rel­a­tive­ly short at 90.5 kilo­me­tres and most­ly flat, on­ly go­ing in­to the Col­li Eu­ganei for a third-cat­e­go­ry climb once and oth­er­wise go­ing around the hills.

Camp­bell’s over­all po­si­tion af­ter the ten stages is 83rd, some 1:44.00 sec­onds be­hind the over-win­ner An­ne­miek van Vleuten (Mo­vis­tar Team) of the Nether­lands, whose over­all time was 27 hours, sev­en min­utes and 26 sec­onds.

Af­ter the race, Camp­bell wrote on her Face­book page, “Got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to blow some cob­webs out to­day in a bunch sprint on to­day’s fi­nal stage...

“Can’t de­scribe how much I missed that feel­ing. Fast fin­ish­es and mass chaos is what I love. Was so much fun, I’d al­so like to say thank you to her as well as my oth­er two sol­diers for hav­ing my back and keep­ing me out of the wind/trou­ble. I would ad­mit that the last 1km/800m was a mis­take of mine and that sucked not be­ing able to fin­ish it off. How­ev­er, it was in­deed a good feel­ing to know that I still have what it takes af­ter an ex­treme­ly long pe­ri­od of self-doubt. 10th place it was and cross­ing the line meant that I fin­ished my first grand tour.”

Van Vleuten won the 2022 Giro d’Italia Donne.

The 39-year-old Dutch­woman fin­ished safe­ly with­in the pelo­ton on the flat fi­nal stage to Pado­va to take her third over­all vic­to­ry in the Ital­ian Grand Tour ahead of Mar­ta Cav­al­li (FDJ Nou­velle-Aquitaine Fu­tu­r­us­cope) and Mavi Gar­cía (UAE Team ADQ).

Van Vleuten said that this over­all vic­to­ry tast­ed dif­fer­ent from her two pre­vi­ous Giro wins: “It was with my new team, ac­tu­al­ly the first time for Mo­vis­tar to tar­get a big stage race, so it was all new for us. It’s more ex­cit­ing, and af­ter I had to leave the Giro in 2020 still in the maglia rosa with a bro­ken wrist, it’s nice to fin­ish it off again in pink. It’s not my favourite colour, but in the Giro it is.

“There are so many Ital­ian peo­ple shout­ing ‘maglia rosa, maglia rosa’, it’s re­al­ly spe­cial to wear. It is a big ho­n­our for me to take it home again.”

The stage vic­to­ry came down to the ex­pect­ed sprint when the break­away was brought back 4.3 km from the fin­ish. Rachele Bar­bi­eri (Liv Rac­ing Xs­tra) launched her sprint ear­ly with Chiara Con­son­ni (Val­car-Trav­el & Ser­vice) in her wheel, and Con­son­ni came around in the end to win the stage. Em­ma Nors­gaard (Mo­vis­tar Team) fin­ished third.

Of the 114 rid­ers that start­ed the fi­nal stage, on­ly one cy­clist did not fin­ish.