KH7 dominates the Škoda We Love Cycling stage
3 de May de 2025Today was a different day in the Škoda Titan Desert Morocco 2025. In an edition loaded with desert, navigation and sand, the third stage was pure mountain.
In fact, today’s stage is called Škoda We Love Cycling. It does so by a timed mountain section that rewards 60 seconds to the rider who completes the climb the fastest.
This is the terrain where cyclists with road cycling experience tend to do best. Where the expertise on the climb compensates for the possible deficit in mountain bike technique that they may have. And that’s exactly what happened.
Andrey Amador and Luis Ángel Maté, two WorldTour riders, were the big winners of the day. Always moving close to the front, the two riders shared the lead group with Fran Herrero, Óscar Pujol and Luis León Sánchez for many kilometers.
Luisle’ was the first to be dropped. He lost many minutes and fell off the pace when his bike chain broke. It seems that the possibilities of reediting the title for the rider from Mule are far away.
From there to the finish, the group remained in three. They arrived at the finish grouped: Amador, Herrero and Maté. The victory went to Maté and the leadership for the Costa Rican, who took the bonus minute of the Škoda Challenge.
Double prize for the KH7 team: stage and GC leadership.
The joy for the KH7 team in the women’s GC was a little more moderate. ‘Pili’ Fernandez maintain the lead, but the Spaniard has seen her advantage halved with respect to the British Annabel Fisher.
Fisher had this day marked on her calendar. She is another of those road pros who do best in stages with a lot of elevation gain. The Škoda We Love Cycling stage was hers and she had it clear.
From the first moment it was clear that the rookie wanted to fight for the victory. Winner of the Škoda Challenge and with a big advantage over the KH7 rider, Fisher looked like she could put in check the leadership of his rival.
However, the injured wrist and her inexperience in mountain biking showed on the downhill. From there to the finish, she rode almost alone and still managed to reduce the gap at the finish from six to three minutes.
