Stage 1

The road

How it was won

1. 16 km to go

   Brändle sets the marker

   Mathias Brändle is first to post a real time around the streets of Apeldoorn, 11:17, and settles into the hot seat for a quarter of an hour before Ludvigsson knocks him off it by six seconds.

2. 25 km to go

   Too fast, too early

   Tim Wellens flies through the intermediate check quicker than anyone — and pays for it, bleeding twenty seconds over the second half. Roglič goes through a second slower and holds his effort together.

3. 3At the line

   Dumoulin by a hundredth

   In front of a home crowd Tom Dumoulin takes the first maglia rosa of the Giro by one hundredth of a second from Primož Roglič, with Andrey Amador third.

The result