Niamh Fisher Black timed it to perfection to win the first summit finish of the Giro d’Italia Women, on stage three to Toana.
She attacked with two kilometres to go of the category-two climb to Toana, which was the only major ascent on what was an otherwise flat day.
Fisher Black’s SD Worx-Protime team-mate Lotte Kopecky came in six seconds back, with Juliet Labous (dsm-firmenich PostNL) and race leader Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) finishing at the same time.
It means Longo Borghini retains the pink leader’s jersey, but Kopecky moves up from fourth to second place and, with the help of her six-second time bonus for second place, is now just 13 seconds behind the Italian.
More to follow…