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Women’s Giro d’Italia Stage 1 Race Highlights.

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Hello and welcome to the highlights of the first stage of the 2025 Jiro Ditalia Women. The longest running Grand Tour for the Women’s Professional Pelaton in its 36th edition this year, ready to get underway in the Lombuddy region of Italy in the city of Burgamo. Earlier today, we had the riders getting ready for the 14.2 km time trial, the now sort of traditional opening stage for the Shodalia women. often opening with the time trial stage. Lot Capeki, the European time trial champion, was here ready to check out the course along with her SD works teammates. The route starting in the center of Bergamo, heading out on a largely flat straight road, making a U-turn at the far point of the course, heading back in towards town, largely untechnical. Time check at 8.75 km. Then a fairly technical run into the finish with a number of corners in the final two kilometers before the finish again in the center of the mo. Barely any climbing out on the course today. Just one time check. And it was Olympic silver medalist Anna Henderson riding the little trek who was one of the quite early starters in this year’s race setting a very strong early benchmark. The intermediate time check claim at 8.75 km in and she was leading at that point. No great surprise for the Olympic medalist from the Paris games coming up to the line for the Olympic medalist and she was the new leader very early leader averaging 47.8 km and she would remain in that hot seat for a long time. Linkoyan, the 23-year-old Dutch rider from team Bizma Lisa Bike, put in a very strong ride and was close to Henderson at the intermediate time check. Not quite beating her time, but a very strong second half of the race to beat Henderson there, taking the top spot, knocking Henderson out of that hot seat. A lot of excitement around Anna Vanderbrean of team SC Works Pro time, a previous fourtime winner of the Jod Talia in her career before then retiring making a comeback this year in 2025. She caught the rider a minute ahead of her and did take the lead in the time trial ahead of Nuan, the new leader before Marlin Reisser got underway. The new Swiss National Time trial champion riding for Mobistar was a big favorite for this year’s race and she did not disappoint. She clearly done her homework taking the lead at the intermediate time check in that very technical running. We were seeing that she was more than 20 seconds up on the time of Anavander Bregan. And coming into the finish, sure enough, she was able to maintain that time gap. The clock was in the green powering all the way to the line and a huge gap there. 20 seconds from Marlon Royer to Vanderum. Still some very bigname riders to come though and very soon Loti the European time trial champion got underway herself. She was just 1 second down on Alisa Longer Bogghini. This time last year going into the final stage. We saw the timeout on the course very close to that of her teammate of Vanderen. She was just ahead of her teammate at a number of points coming to that final kilometer. She was down on the time of Martin Royce though ahead of her teammate Belotta Cafe was not going to take the win today finishing 12 seconds down on Martin Royer. The final rider to take to the start was defending champion Italian rider Alisa Longa Borghini riding for a new team this year UAE team ADQ. We were seeing multiple time checks out on the course where she was just down on Marlon Royer. Royce was in the hot seat. The clock went red. There was no doubt the victory of go to Royster. But how much time was Longo Borgghini going to lose? In the end, it was 16 seconds on the line that she was down on Royster. Third place for Long Bulggini and a victory for Swiss champion Marlon Royster, who is now a big favorite for the overall general classification in this year’s race. Marlon Royster took the win by 12 seconds from European champion Lapeki. Longer Bulgini, last year’s winner in third. 16 seconds down. Vanderbrean 20 seconds back. Four big names right at the top of the standings after the first stage of this year’s year at Italia women. All smart and Marvin Royce are on the podium as a stage winner. Also the pink jersey coming her way. Early leader Anna Henderson ended up in sixth place overall. The top 10 rounded out by Sha Vanroy. 41 seconds down on Marlon Royer. [Music] Multiple trips to the podium for Martin Royer collecting the prize the stage win the watch the pink jersey and a red jersey the points jersey as well we can now look ahead to tomorrow’s stage starting in Clone slightly downhill start relatively flat in the middle a couple of little kicks and then a very gradual climb all the way up to the finish. There is an intermediate sprint to come. So, all important points for the red jersey competition. We then climb up to a third category climb to our finish in Africa. 3.5% is the average of that final climb is wide open for a very exciting second stage to come tomorrow.