Tour de France Femmes 2023: Liane Lippert beats Lotte Kopecky in sprint to win stage two

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Liane Lippert celebrates taking triumph connected the 2nd signifier of the Tour de France Femmes

Liane Lippert won the sprint for the enactment arsenic the German claimed triumph connected the 2nd signifier of the Tour de France Femmes.

Belgian Lotte Kopecky, who won signifier one, launched her sprint astatine the extremity of a wet, 152km hilly way from Clermont-Ferrand to Mauriac first.

But Lippert, 25, surged past her to instrumentality triumph arsenic Kopecky finished second, with Silvia Persico successful third.

"It's truthful special. I americium truly blessed and arrogant of this," said Lippert.

"I crashed 2 times successful the neutral portion and past connected the climb.

"It was a spot of accent but the squad did truthful well. Everybody was a big, large portion of this. The full squad came backmost aft the clang and stayed calm successful this rain.

"I ever contention good successful the rainfall truthful I was really blessed erstwhile it started."

Lopecky retained the wide pb of the contention and holds a 49 2nd vantage implicit second-placed Lippert.

The 3rd signifier is simply a 147.2km way from Collonges-la-Rouge to Montignac-Lascaut successful Dordogne, with the eight-stage contention finishing connected Sunday.