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Blanka Vas (Team SD Worx) won stage 1 of the Tour de Suisse Women in the sprint of a group of nine riders after the peloton split in the final. Led out by her teammates Marlen Reusser and Demi Vollering, the Hungarian Champion held off Arlenis Sierra (Movistar Team) and Eleonora Gasparrini (UAE Team ADQ) to take her first Women’s WorldTour victory.
Élise Chabbey (Canyon-SRAM) had been on a solo breakaway for most of the race but was finally caught three kilometres from the finish.
On the twisty last kilometres, Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) got away with Sierra and Reusser but had to do all the work herself. Vas and Vollering bridged to the front with 1,300 metres to go, followed by another group of four just inside the flamme rouge, and Vas won the sprint.
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