Gaia Realini is the first leader after Lidl-Trek’s victory in the team time trial

Gaia Realini is the first leader after Lidl-Trek’s victory in the team time trial

Gaia Realini is the first leader after Lidl-Trek’s victory in the team time trial

Euskaraz irakurri: Gaia Realini gives lehen leader, Lidl-Trek taldeak lehen eguneko erlojupekoa irabazita

The team Lidl-Trek, Despite a fall at the same finish line, he won this Sunday in the first stage of the second edition of the women’s cycling tour of Spaina 16-kilometer squad time trial in Valencia after which one of its runners, the Italian Gaia Realini, becomes the first leader of the test.

The Lidl-Trek of Elisa Longo Borghini and Realini, whose runners Ellen van Dijk and Elynor Backstedt-Calvert they suffered a fall at the finish line, won the opening ‘time trial’ with only 9 hundredths of a margin over the Visma-Lease a Bike. In one second she finished the SW Worx-Protime by Demi Vollering, one of the big favorites.

The first stage began in the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia and ended in front of the Oceanogràfic. In between, the route crossed the coastal road of the Albufera Natural Park.

Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek), one of the great protagonists of the last edition, has become the first individual leader of La Vuelta Femenina 24, with the same time as her teammates Lizzie Deignan, Brodie Chapman, Elisa Longo Borhini and Amanda Spratt, and with the big favorites just a few seconds away.

He Laboral Kutxa of Lourdes Oyarbide, Debora Silvestri, Nadia Quagliotto, Cristina Tonetti, Laura Tomasi, Aileen Schweikart and Idoia Eraso was fifteenth, one minute and 4 seconds behind.

The race resumes this Monday with its first stage onlinea day of 118.3 kilometers through the Valencian interior between Bunyol and Moncofa, passing through the Puerto de l’Oronet (3rd category) and which should favor a sprint finish, the organizers report.

Stage classification

1 – Lidl – Trek 19:20

2 – Team Visma | Lease a Bike 19:20 mt

3 – Team SD Worx – Protime 19:21 +0:01

4 – Canyon//SRAM Racing 19:28 +0:08

5 – EF Education-Cannondale 19:29 +0:09

6 – FDJ – SUEZ 19:29 +0:09

7 – Liv AlUla Jayco 19:30 +0:10

8 – Movistar Team 19:32 +0:12

9 – Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 19:37 +0:17

10 – AG Insurance – Soudal Team 19:52 + 0:32

15 – Laboral Kutxa – Euskadi Foundation 20:24 +1:04

General ranking

1 – REALINI Gaia (Lidl – Trek) 0:19:20

2 – DEIGNAN Elizabeth (Lidl – Trek) mt

3 – CHAPMAN Brodie (Lidl – Trek) mt

4 – LONGO BORGHINI Elisa (Lidl – Trek) mt

5 – SPRATT Amanda (Lidl – Trek) mt

6 – MARKUS Riejanne (Visma) mt

7 – HENDERSON Anna (Visma) mt

8 – YOU Marianne (Visma) mt

9 – VAN AGT Eva (Visma) mt

10 – VON BERSWORDT Sophie (Visma) mt

Source: Eitb

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