{"id":643159,"date":"2026-06-17T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:16:16","slug":"tour-de-suisse-women-stage-1-live-challenging-finale-sets-the-tone-for-the-week-in-opening-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643159\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Suisse Women stage 1 LIVE: Challenging finale sets the tone for the week in opening stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refresh <\/p>\n

2026-06-17T08:12:51.248Z<\/p>\n

The peloton is all together again.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T08:08:37.690Z<\/p>\n

New attacks come after 30km of racing. Will this finally be allowed to get away?<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T08:08:06.824Z<\/p>\n

Today and tomorrow are similar in style with a lumpy finale that should give a good chance to the GC riders as well as the puncheurs for a stage win. Stage 3 is the only chance for the few sprinters present before ITT on Saturday followed by the big mountain stage on Sunday to decide the race.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T08:02:00.175Z<\/p>\n

SD Worx-Protime don’t bring the big superstars to this race and don’t even bring a full complement of riders with five out of a possible six. Nienke Vinke will likely be their GC focus.<\/p>\n

>>> No superstar rider but SD Worx-Protime count on rising GC talent and home hopeful to take on expanded Tour de Suisse Women<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"AARSCHOT,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-17T07:57:58.737Z<\/p>\n

Everything is still together as the attacks have completely stopped.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T07:55:26.165Z<\/p>\n

40km to the first categorised climb of the day, the Buglio in Monte, which is a category 2 climb.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T07:50:59.238Z
\n90km to go<\/p>\n

Almost 20km of racing complete and there is no break after multiple attackers have been brought back.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T07:48:53.612Z<\/p>\n

More riders try to get clear with one lone attacker and a chaser. Yet again the peloton works hard to bring it back.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T07:46:00.575Z<\/p>\n

Two riders went clear but it was quickly squashed by the peloton again.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T07:40:47.406Z<\/p>\n

Mechanical<\/p>\n

Letizia Borghesi (AG Insurance-Soudal)<\/p>\n

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2026-06-17T07:39:57.837Z<\/p>\n

The first moves were by the likes of Australian national champion Mackenzie Coupland (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), former Australian champion Brodie Chapman (UAE Team ADQ) and Morgane Coston (Ma Petite Enterprise). All together for the moment, though.<\/p>\n

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\"SONDRIO,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-17T07:33:55.524Z<\/p>\n

Mechanical<\/p>\n

Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ)<\/p>\n

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The Italian national champion gets an issue at a less than ideal time just as racing starts. Fortunately for her the attacks have been brought back, for now.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T07:32:36.866Z
\nRace start<\/p>\n

The riders are racing and immediately there are attacks off the front of the peloton.<\/p>\n

2026-06-17T07:28:52.037Z<\/p>\n

The riders are in the 2.2km neutralisation after they signed on earlier.<\/p>\n

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\"SONDRIO,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-17T07:17:53.587Z<\/p>\n

Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM) had a disappointing La Vuelta Femenina where she finished down in eighth in GC after a superbly strong Classics campaign. Maybe the long-term training camp she has been on since then has seen her re-find that Classics form.<\/p>\n

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\"NAVA,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-17T07:11:16.114Z<\/p>\n

Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) comes into this race off the back of a very emotional and powerful victory on the final stage of the Giro where she also moved up to fourth in the final GC. She looked to be lacking a bit in the mountains after her long-term illness. Maybe more training time has meant she is closer to her best.<\/p>\n

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\"SALUZZO,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-17T07:09:36.977Z<\/p>\n

Marlen Reusser (Movistar) is the defending champion. However, she comes into this race off the back of a 13th place in GC at the Giro d’Italia Women. Has her form improved for this week as she continues to build towards the Tour de France Femmes?<\/p>\n

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\"NEVEGAL,\n<\/p>\n

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2026-06-17T07:07:34.292Z<\/p>\n

The line-up at this race is a very good one. It lacks some of the biggest names but still has a very good startlist that should make for a very good race.<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to Cyclingnews live updates of stage 1 at the Tour de Suisse Women. Today is a challenging way to open the race with Just over 100km of racing starting and finishing in Sondrio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2026-06-17T08:12:51.248Z The peloton is all together again. 2026-06-17T08:08:37.690Z New attacks come after 30km of racing. Will this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}