Marianne Vos claimed stage 1 of this year’s Giro Rosa today – effectively transferring the leader’s jersey from her teammate Annemiek van Vleuten, who won yesterday’s opening prologue, to her shoulders.
Meanwhile, Elisa Longo Borghini finished in second place ahead of Pauline Ferrend Prevot, who rounded out the podium in third spot as the second Rabo-Liv rider.
Race Details
Today’s 95.2 kilometer stage got underway in the town of Santa Maria, in the south of Italy, that featured 11 laps around 8.6 kilometer circuit with gradients ranging from 10% and 13%.
Despite numerous attacks throughout the race, it wasn’t until Van Vleuten and South African champion Ashleigh Moolman joined forces to create a slight gap of roughly a minute over the peloton.
Shortly thereafter, the duo was joined by last year’s Chongming World Cup winner, Tatiana Riabchenko. However, it wasn’t long before the three riders were tracked down and caught by the ensuing peloton under the auspices of the Rabo-Liv team.
From there, Vos, Elisa Longo Borghini and her teammate Audrey Cordon attacked, and subsequently distanced themselves from the field.
However, during the final lap, Vos succeeded in outsprinting Longo Borghini by a gap of more than 25 meters to seize the victory.
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Top 20 Finishers
1 Marianne Vos (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 2:42:03 2 Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Hitec Products 0:00:04 3 Pauline Ferrand Prevot (Fra) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:00:05 4 Claudia Häusler (Ger) Team Giant Shimano 0:01:20 5 Megan Guarnier (USA) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 6 Anna Van Der Breggen (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 7 Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica AIS 8 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (RSA) Hitec Products 9 Mara Abbott (USA) Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling 0:01:24 10 Audrey Cordon (Fra) Hitec Products 11 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:01:59 12 Evelyn Stevens (USA) Specialized Lululemon 0:02:0413 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Estado De Mexico Faren 14 Tetiana Riabchenko (Ukr) S.C. Michela Fanini Rox 0:02:30 15 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Specialized Lululemon 0:02:37 16 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Wiggle Honda 17 Katarzyna Pawlowska (Pol) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 18 Eugenia Bujak (Pol) Btc City Ljubljana 19 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 0:02:39 20
General classification after stage 1
1 Marianne Vos (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 2:44:20 2 Pauline Ferrand Prevot (Fra) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:00:15 3 Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita) Hitec Products 0:00:23 4 Anna Van Der Breggen (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:01:36 5 Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (RSA) Hitec Products 0:01:42 6 Claudia Häusler (Ger) Team Giant Shimano 7 Emma Johansson (Swe) Orica AIS 0:01:44 8 Megan Guarnier (USA) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 9 Audrey Cordon (Fra) Hitec Products 0:01:55 10 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:02:06 11 Mara Abbott (USA) Unitedhealthcare Professional Cycling 0:02:10 12 Evelyn Stevens (USA) Specialized Lululemon 0:02:34 13 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Estado De Mexico Faren 0:02:41 14 Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 0:02:57 15 Eugenia Bujak (Pol) Btc City Ljubljana 0:02:59 16 Tiffany Cromwell (Aus) Specialized Lululemon 17 Katarzyna Pawlowska (Pol) Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 0:03:03 18 Tetiana Riabchenko (Ukr) S.C. Michela Fanini Rox 0:03:06 19 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Wiggle Honda 20 Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol) Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team 0:03:08 Tatiana Antoshina (Rus) Rusvelo
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