High Road Women's Victories

TEUTENBERG TAKES FINAL STAGE OF TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND; WOOD SECOND OVERALL
March 2, 2008
High Road's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg won the final stage of Tour of New Zealand out of an eight person break. Team High Road rides the prototype Giant TCR Advanced SL bicycle.
Her teammate Oenone Wood finished the Tour in second place overall behind Cervelo Lifeforce rider Kristin Armstrong. Wood’s team mate, Judith Arndt finished fourth.

FAHLIN WINS ANOTHER IN CALIFORNIA
March 2, 2008
High Road's youngest rider, Emilia Fahlin took her second victory of the season winning the sprint out of a break of five at the Merced Downtown Grand Prix in Merced, CA.
The High Road women were aggressive from the start with rider Kim Anderson staying away solo for the majority of the race. When caught Fahlin countered opening up an immediate gap with one other rider. Eventually Anderson followed an attack bridged to the pair making it four.
In the final laps Mara Abbott also made it across to the break going straight to the front for the final lap. Anderson attacked setting up the sprint for Fahlin. Abbott took third, Anderson fourth and Anke Wichmann won the bunch sprit for fifth place.

The information above is from Team High Road’s official website:
http://www.highroadsports.com/news

A race report is also available at:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2008/mar08/merco08/merco082