Chloe Hosking (Ale Cipollini) won the final race of the Women's World Tour at the Tour of Guangxi on Tuesday. A few weeks after her last race in Europe, Hosking took a family trip to China for a one-day race.

A week before the race, Hosking traveled from Australia to China with her father. For five days, the Hosking family explored the karst mountains of Guangxi by bicycle.

"It was amazing," Hosking said. 'Everyone else said it was a long way to come for one race, but I made the most of it. It is strange for the women's peloton to have a race this late in the day, but I think it will become more common in the future. For example, the addition of a women's Lombardia would make the season longer."

The race took a long time to get going, with one breakaway being chained to a long leash as the peloton took its time on the flat sections in the first half of the race. Hosking jokingly remarked, "I thought people were protesting that we were having a race in late October."

"But the CCC was trying to drop as many people as possible. I went over the first climb right behind the peloton and lost a little distance on the second climb."

In this situation, Hosking had just run the same road a few days earlier, and her recently acquired local knowledge made the difference. As she returned to the front, the Ale Cipollini team supported the sprinter and Hosking sprinted to beat Marianne Voss (CCC-Liv) and Allison Jackson (Tibco-SVB).

"I was with a good group and knew the descent from my bikepacking trip. I used the descent to get back to the main group and from there the team focused on sprinting. Eri Yonamine led me for the last 10km and Soraya Paradin led me with 1km to go. Vos started her sprint fairly early. I was able to jump on her wheel and go around her."

The victory came at the end of a season in which Hoskin had not performed at her best. After stage wins at the Tour Down Under and the Herald Sun Tour, she went into the spring campaign overtrained. After getting back into shape for the summer, the 29-year-old then suffered concussion in a crash at the Ryde London Classic and was forced to cancel her participation in the inaugural Scottish Women's Tour.

Returning to racing, she missed out on a stage win with Vos at the Ladies Tour of Norway, and then took sprint stage wins at the Premondiale Giro Toscana and the Madrid Challenge.

The victory in Guangxi means that Hosking has finished the season on a high note." We are truly thrilled. It wasn't a great season, but it's a huge relief to end it this way." "It's a good way to end 2019 and look forward to 2020."

After spending three years at Alle Cipollini, Hosking has signed with American Rally UHC for 2020 and will change teams next season.