Team Sunweb's Women's Program have won the opening stage of the Giro Rosa, a 16 kilometre team time trial in Verbania, Italy. All seven riders crossed the line with a time of 18 minutes and 24 seconds, with the world champions in the discipline winning the stage by one second. With Ellen van Dijk crossing the line first for the team, she wears the first Maglia Rosa of the race going into stage two tomorrow.

Ellen said: "What a great start to this Giro Rosa! We came into this TTT well prepared and everybody did a great job on this fast course. We knew we had to go very fast from the start and we had a clear plan for the race. As always, we used each others strength in the best possible way and we executed the plan almost to perfection. It’s great to win this stage together as a team. The spirit is super high as we couldn’t start this Giro in a better way!"