Izagirre wins 3.95km time trial in La Chaux-de-Fonds
Jon Izagirre on his way to winning the Romandie prologue (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Ion Izagirre (Movstar) won the opening prologue at the Tour de Romandie on Tuesday, taking the first leader's jersey of the WorldTour event. The race started with a 3.95km time trial in La Chaux-de-Fonds, where Izaqirre had the fastest time of 5:33.
The Spaniard beat Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) by six seconds and Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) by seven seconds.
The racing will continue with stage 1's 166.9km race from La Chaux-de-Fonds to Moudon on Wednesday.
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