The Aussie finished third on stage five of the Tour, picking up valuable bonus seconds to stay in the lead alongside stage winner Elisa Longo Borghini.
Grace Brown is one stage away from a maiden Women's Tour victory after maintaining the slimmest of overall leads in the race's penultimate, hill-top finish at Black Mountain on Saturday in the United Kingdom.Grace Brown is level with Italy's Elisa Longo Borghini at the top of the Women's Tour leaderboard heading into the final stage
Brown picked up valuable bonus seconds in the final climb, ensuring that her and the Italian Borghini will enter the final day in equal-first position on the leaderboard, while Poland's Niewiadoma is just two seconds behind. But Lowden was caught 43km into the stage as the leading group — which contained the race's top three — extended the gap over the pack by over a minute. However, the peloton eventually caught the breakaways with 23km remaining as the riders reached the foot of Black Mountain.
"My team had done a lot of work all day, so we were down to one rider in the end, but I managed to stay at the front. Then the wind neutralised the climb a little bit from too many attacks, but it was still hard, really hard in the last kilometre.
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