- Intermediate sprint 2
- Stages victory 0
- Victory 0
- Podium 0
Rankings
| Stage | Ranking |  |
 |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | 70 | - | - | - |
| 2 | 3 | 55 | 4 | 1 | - |
| 3 | 64 | 50 | 13 | 1 | - |
| 4 | 55 | 39 | 17 | 1 | - |
| 5 | 49 | 42 | 7 | 1 | - |
| 6 | 66 | 40 | 10 | 1 | - |
| 7 | 25 | 38 | 11 | 1 | - |
| 8 | 23 | 36 | 9 | 4 | - |
All news of K. Swinkels
Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team ADQ): “if you don’t try, you don’t win”
I tried my best. It was a nice race and I’m happy I claimed some points for the Mountains classification in order to keep the polka dot jersey. After the climb, I gave the lone breakaway a go because you never know what may happen when you go on the attack – if you don’t try, you don’t win. My legs feel bad after the stage… [laughs] …...
Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team ADQ): “It has been a very hard day for me”
It has been a very hard day for me. It was not really my day, as I had a lot of pain all over my body. I did my best in order to defend this Mountains jersey, but it was not the easiest day for me mentally, for sure. We rode fast up the categorised climb, and the bunch was reduced down to 40 riders. Afterwards, everything came back together because of the headwind. From then...
Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team ADQ): “It was a super hectic sprint”
I wanted to go for the QOM jersey so I could test my legs on the climb. I felt good and I’m happy to take the jersey. Afterwards we were supposed to sprint with Tereza [Neumanova], but she got dropped on the climb and didn’t come back to the bunch in time for the sprint, so it was up to me to contest the sprint for the team. I’m a bit sad for all the crashes...
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