The Movistar Team was fourth, 12 seconds behind the Dutch
BARCELONA, 1 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Women’s Tour started this Monday with a team time trial in Torrevieja, 14.5 kilometers long, won by the cyclists of Team Jumbo-Visma, which places Anna Henderson as the first leader of this reformed Spanish round, with the Movistar Team Spaniard in fourth position in the ‘chrono’.
The tourist town of Torrevieja (Alicante) welcomed the teams of this new Women’s Tour on Sunday, which goes from five to seven stages to be one of the ‘big’ of the women’s calendar, and this Monday saw the show begin with a quick team time trial.
The Jumbo-Visma Team of the Dutch Marianne Vos, one of the candidates for the final victory, was the fastest with a time of 18:03 minutes, at an average of 48.199 kilometers per hour that only four cyclists endured, including the first leader, the British Anna Henderson, and the ‘boss’ Marianne Vos.
Second was the German Canyon/SRAM Racing, just 1 second behind the Dutch, with the American Trek-Segafredo third, 9 seconds behind, and the Spanish Movistar Team, with the defender of the red jersey Annemiek Van Vleuten, fourth, 12 seconds behind. .
The Movistar Team paid dearly for keeping the minimum of 4 riders required –Van Vleuten, Norsgaard, Patiño and Lippert– to mark time too far from the finish line. Thus, despite being 4 seconds behind Jumbo-Visma at the halfway point, they gave up another 8 seconds in the final stretch of the time trial.
For its part, the Catalan Massi-Tactic Women Team was fourteenth in this first stage, with 1:26 minutes lost. They were followed by Eneicat-CMTeam-Seguros Deportivos at 1:33 and Laboral Kutxa Fundación Euskadi at 1:40. For its part, Bizkaia Durango was eighteenth at 1:43, Sopela Women’s Team twentieth at 2:13, Cantabria Deporte-Rio Miera 21st at 2:29, Soltec Team 22nd at 2:36 and the El Farto stage closed. -BTC Women’s Cycling Team, last, 3:22 behind Jumbo-Visma.
–CLASSIFICATIONS.
-Stage.
1. Team Jumbo-Visma (NED) 18:03.
2. Canyon/SRAM Racing (ALE) a 1.
3. Trek-Segafredo (USA) 9.
4. MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP) 12.
5. Team SD Worx (NED) 14.
-General.
1. Anna Henderson (GBR/Team Jumbo-Visma) 18:03.
2. Amber Kraak (NED/Team Jumbo-Visma) mt
3. Marianne Vos (NED/Team Jumbo-Visma) m.t.
4. Riejanne Markus (NED/Team Jumbo-Visma) m.t.
5. Chloe Dygert (USA/Canyon/SRAM Racing) a 1.