Teutenberg leads HTC-Highroad 1-2

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HTC-Highroad's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Adrie Visser went one-two in the opening stage of the Giro del Trentino from Dimaro to Arco. Visser led into the technical final few hundred meters and was able to hold on for second behind the dominant victory by the German.

"I was in third place with 250 meters to go and then went for the sprint from there," Teutenberg said. "It was a very fast finish with four or five corners late on, but it worked out fine."

The race stayed largely together, with Svetlana Bubnenkova (Team PCW) taking the top honours on the day's sole climb, and Sara Grifi (Michela Fanini Rox) taking the intermediate sprint.

Late in the race, a select group tried to get away, with Nicole Cooke (MCipollini Giambenini), Elena Berlato (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo) and Garmin-Cervelo's Noemi Cantele, but the impetus was for a bunch sprint, and that's what the field got.

"We'd had a good look at the maps because it was a very technical finish with cobblestones and a lot of corners in the last kilometer, and all the team made sure they were in exactly the right position," said HTC-Highroad director Jens Zemke.

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