Stage 1
Wiggins takes the first pink
- Saturday 8 May 2010
- 8.6 km
- 21 m climbed
- Won by Bradley Wiggins
The road
At the start
Level on the Museumplein
The 93rd Giro begins with 8.4 technical kilometres around Amsterdam, starting on the Museumplein between the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. Nobody has a second on anybody yet. For Team Sky, in their first season, it is the opening day of the first Grand Tour they have ever ridden, and the British time trial champion they have built it around has never won a stage of one.
How it was won
- 4 km to go
Lang sets the mark
Sebastian Lang goes early over the technical 8.4 kilometres of Amsterdam and stops the clock at 10:48. It is a time nobody troubles for most of the afternoon.
- At the line
Wiggins takes the first pink
Bradley Wiggins rides the Museumplein course in 10:18 to win the opening test by two seconds. It is his first Grand Tour stage, his first leader's jersey, and the first day of Team Sky's first Grand Tour.
The result
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Procycling | 10:18 |
| 2 | Brent Bookwalter | BMC Racing Team | +0:02 |
| 3 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | +0:02 |
The route on real terrain, every moment pinned to the kilometre it happened on — and the GPX to ride it yourself.