Stefan Kung wins the time trial and is the first leader of the Tour of Switzerland
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the swiss Stefan Kung (Groupama) had the honor of wearing the leader’s jersey for the 86th edition of the tour of switzerland by prevailing in the first stage, an individual time trial with start and finish in Einsiedelnwith a route of 12.7 km.
Kung (Wil, 29 years old) was the king of the time trial and won the short but explosive 12 km course with a time of 13.31 minutes. Second place went to the Belgian world champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick Step) at 6 seconds, who in turn led his compatriot wout van aert (Jumbo Visma) in 4. Meanwhile, Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) occupied thirteenth place at 27 and bilbao hair he finished in 23rd place at 37 seconds.
The first important time trial reference was marked by the 21-year-old American Magnus Sheffield (Ineos), with a time of 13.42, but immediately the names of the favorites began to arrive.
Kung broke the stopwatch by exceeding the record of 11 seconds Sheffield, and nobody took him out of the first place on the first podium anymore. So much evenepoel as Go Aert They did well in the first test of the Swiss round.
Classification of the first stage and general
1 – KÜNG Stefan (Groupama) 0:13:31
2 – EVENEPOEL Remco (Soudal) +0:06
3 – VAN AERT Wout (Jumbo) +0:10
4 – SHEFFIELD Magnus (INEOS) +0:11
5 – PRICE-PEJTERSEN Johan (Bahrain) +0:17
6 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Trek) +0:19
7 – BISSEGGER Stefan (EF Education) +0:20
8 – HAT Matteo (Team Jayco) MT
9 – ASGREEN Kasper (Soudal) +0:23
10 – AYUSO Juan (UAE Team Emirates) +0:25
11 – IZAGIRRE Ion (Cofidis) +0:27
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23 – BILBAO Pello (Bahrain) +0:37
Source: Eitb

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