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"Emirates Holding" It controls the third stage of women’s circumambulation

Al Ain on February 8 / WAM / Italian Elisa Longo Burgini ranked at the overall ranking of the UAE tawaaf for women for women 2025, by winning the third phase of the “Dar stage” in Al Ain, today, today, to approach a lot of the title for the second time.

The Emirates Holding team dominated the third stage of the circumambulation with Burgini’s victory and its citizen Silvia Persico in the first and second places in the classic mountainous stage, the most difficult stages of circumambulation.

Borgini, the heroine of the first edition of the Tawaf in 2023, traveled the stage of 152 km, in a time of 3:56:31 hours, in front of her teammate Silvia Persico, who ranked second, 35 seconds from Burgini, and Kimberly Lee Court came from Mauritius AG Inchorance Sodal team is in third place.

The Burgini and Birguso duo presented an impressive work in the third stage, specifically during the rise of Jabal Hafit’s summit, where Persiko managed to withdraw the group with a high capacity to keep Burgini the first candidate within the path, and at the appropriate time Borgini applied the attack plan three kilometers before the end, and made with away steady stability About the rest of the competition, to cross the finish line with a very comfortable difference.

After the Italian Persiko played her role ably, she returned to steadfastness and increased her speed in the last kilometer despite competition with Kimberly Lee Court and Italian Monica Collonel bike Lev Jaco Al -Ala, which was a surprise in her presence in the two -introduction constellation, to kidnap Persiko second.

With the end of the third stage, the top of the overall ranking of El -Tawaf moved to Elisa Longo Burgini with a total time of 10 hours, 11 minutes and 29 seconds, and Dutch, Laureena and Yipis, removed the SD Warx team, the champion of the first and second phases for the lead, and Persiko advanced to the arrangement of 2:09 minutes on Burgini, and 2:11 minutes for the third place, Kimberly Lee Court.

Before the last stage, Borgini won the red shirt, sponsored by the International Holding Company, as an inception of the overall ranking, and the green shirt, under the auspices of cities, to lead the points arrange The Canyon team on the white shirt sponsored by the best young under -23 bike, and as a result of the distinguished performance of Irish Lara Gilsby, she managed to get the black shirt, sponsored by the house, dedicated to the intermediate speed stage, with 16 points.

The winners of the third stage shirts crowned His Excellency Aref Hamad Al -Awani, Secretary -General of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, His Excellency Dr. Fahd Al -Neyadi, representative of the Court of the Ruler’s representative in the Al -Ain region, and His Excellency Dr. Matar Al -Darmaki, representative of the Diwan of the Ruler’s representative in the Al -Ain region.
“We had a clear goal in the team, which is to win the third stage and the red shirt, the team presented a great work during the rise stage specifically, and we can call what the Emirates Holding team presented as a whole as a masterpiece,” said Elisa Longo Borgini after winning the race.

“There was an important moment when Silvia Persico led the constellation in one row and the entire team adhered to the best suitable place at the moment of the rise of Jabal Hafeet, and at a fixed pace that Persiko succeeded in leading the race, which made me feel very comfortable throughout the rise.”

The Emirates Women’s Tawaf for 2025 will conclude its competitions tomorrow, Sunday, with the establishment of the fourth and final stage, “The Fatima Bint Mubarak Academy for Women’s Sports” in Abu Dhabi, for a distance of 128 km, where the race starts in front of the headquarters of the Fatima Bint Mubarak Academy for Women’s Sports, through the most prominent tourist and cultural landmarks, To the finish line at the wave breaking the Abu Dhabi Corniche.

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