Tour de Suisse Women: Demi Vollering wins mountainous opening stage

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Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) won stage 1 of the Tour de Suisse Women, a short but challenging 58.6km stage starting and finishing in Villars-sur-Ollon.

The Dutch champion dropped her last companion Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek) just before the flamme rouge and took 23 seconds on the Italian at the finish. Élise Chabbey (Canyon-SRAM) finished third at 45 seconds.

Chabbey had attacked just before the top of the first climb of the day, the second-category Col de la Croix, and increased her advantage to almost three minutes.