OPENINGThe race began with two near-identical sprint days. On Stage 1's 127 km circuit around Burgos, SD Worx-Protime caught the early break ~17.5 km out and ran a textbook lead-out for Lorena Wiebes, who won in Gamonal ahead of Chiara Consonni and Georgia Baker and took the first purple jersey. Stage 2 through the Ribera del Duero wine country to Bodega Viña Pedrosa was the same story — break controlled, lead-out built, Wiebes clear of Elisa Balsamo and Ally Wollaston for win number two.
UNFOLDSStage 3, the lumpier 126 km from Busto de Bureba to Medina de Pomar, broke the sprint pattern. The climbs reduced the bunch to a front group, and SD Worx changed cards: Mischa Bredewold attacked late and won over Mireia Benito for the team's third straight stage, with Wiebes third at +11" to defend the jersey. The GC tightened beneath her — Bredewold to +3", Benito to +7", then a cluster of climbers (Kerbaol, Ostolaza, Andersson, Van Anrooij, Kastelijn, Spratt, Oudeman) at +25".
DECIDEDWithin this calendar's three-stage window the race was a sprinter-and-puncheur showcase that left Wiebes leading on bonuses with the real GC fight still pending. The decisive day was the Stage 4 summit finish at Lagunas de Neila (24 May), which falls outside the three stages covered here.
FINALEOn the uncovered queen stage Yara Kastelijn attacked in the final kilometres at Lagunas de Neila, won alone, and took the overall — Évita Muzic second and Usoa Ostolaza third on the final GC. Jerseys: Wiebes points, Kastelijn QOM, Shirin van Anrooij youth, Liv AlUla Jayco teams. The podium recorded above is the GC after Stage 3 (the end of this calendar's coverage), not that final classification.