Second stage of Tour Down Under 2026 and second victory for an explosive Ally Wollaston. The New Zealand rider from FDJ Suez, racing today with the "ochre" leader's jersey, put her signature on the Magill/Paracombe stage, contested today over a distance of 130 kilometers, beating in a slightly uphill sprint the Swiss Noemi Rüegg (EF Education-Oatly), winner of last year's Australian stage race, and Josie Nelson (Picnic PostNL). Immediately behind the stage podium, Paula Blasi (UAE Team ADQ) finished fourth.

From the first kilometers, thanks also to the Ashton climb shortly after the start, we witnessed several attacks: Paula Blasi (UAE Team ADQ), Mavi García (UAE Team ADQ), Paula Ostiz (Movistar), and the young Finnish rider Wilma Aintila (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto) tried to break free from the group's control.

The final circuit designed by the organizers around the finish location further encouraged attacks. With Blasi always very active, Josie Talbot (Liv AlUla Jayco) and world champion Magdeleine Vallieres (EF Education-Oatly) also tried to animate the race. Then, with 8 kilometers to go, a group of five riders formed at the head of the race: Spaniard Mireia Benito (AG Insurance - Soudal Team), American Chloé Dygert (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto), Canadian Sarah Van Dam (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), Dutch rider Loes Adegeest (Lidl – Trek), and Czech Julia Kopecký (Team SD Worx – Protime). These riders reached a maximum advantage of about twenty seconds but could do nothing against a full-speed peloton in pursuit. Within the last kilometer, the peloton came back together: Vallieres launched Ruegg, but Wollaston, coming from behind, raised her arms to the sky.

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