Femke de Vries beat Lauren Dickson in a two-up final sprint to win stage one of the Tour de Suisse Women on Wednesday.
The Visma-Lease a Bike rider and her FDJ United-Suez rival were together from around 17km to go of the tough opening stage of the Women's WorldTour race, and the pair worked together, opening up a significant advantage before the final. As both searched for their first ever professional victory, Dickson opened up the sprint, before De Vries came round and triumphed in Sondrio.