Marlen Reusser (Movistar) won stage 1 of the Giro d'Italia Women, a 14.2km individual time trial in Bergamo. The Swiss ITT champion set the best time at the intermediate timing point after two thirds of the course and kept going to the finish, stopping the clock with a time of 17:22.
Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) and Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) could not match Reusser’s time, finishing second and third, 12 and 16 seconds slower, respectively.
“I’m very excited, and I can almost not believe that we won. It feels a little bit surreal," said Reusser in the winner’s interview.
"I was not sure how good my TT is, and it’s really a big dream of mine to win here and to wear pink. I was like, ‘oh, I’m not sure it’s good enough’, now I won, I’m super happy."
