Ana Santos wins the Ciclocross Cidade de Vila Real, Women Elite race

Ana Santos wins the Women Elite race at the Ciclocross Cidade de Vila Real, a lap-based race held on a circuit in Vila Real on 25 October 2026. The Portuguese rider finished the race in 00:52:12, ahead of all her rivals on the Portuguese course. For the twenty-four-year-old Portuguese rider, it is her third seasonal success in three Women Elite cyclocross races in our archive: three races, three victories and three podiums. The streak comes after 1st place in the Ciclocrosse Internacional De Vouzela on 24 October 2026 and 1st place in the Portugal Cup Cyclo-cross on 18 October 2026. A perfect record that confirms how Ana Santos arrived in Vila Real with the right form and consistency to prevail on this occasion too. Behind her, the Women Elite podium is completed by Zuzana Michaličková (SK), second, and Ana Lopez Burgos (ES), third. For the Slovak Michaličková, twenty-four years old, this is the first race of the season in our data. The nineteen-year-old Spaniard Ana Lopez Burgos instead takes home her second seasonal podium in five Women Elite cyclocross races: before Vila Real she was 2nd in the Ciclocrosse Internacional De Vouzela on 24 October 2026, 8th in the Portugal Cup Cyclo-cross on 18 October 2026 and 4th in the Copa de España de Ciclo-cross #2 - Ciclocross Internacional Xaxancx - Ence on 11 October 2026. Completing the top ten of the finishing order, in order: Lea Coraboeuf (FR), Tânia Lima (PT), Laura Maria Mira Juarez (ES), Elsa Westenfelder (US), Leandra Gomes (PT) and Y FRIAS Carla Jimenez Vera (ES). The classification lists thirteen riders at the start of the race. With this victory Ana Santos closes in the best possible way the trio of closely spaced races in which she was the absolute protagonist, confirming herself as the reference of the Women Elite race at the Ciclocross Cidade de Vila Real.