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UAE Development Team wins the Team Time Trial, Cipressi new leader of the Trofeo Ponente in Rosa

UAE Development Team wins the Team Time Trial, Cipressi new leader of the Trofeo Ponente in Rosa

March 7, 2023

After the two podiums of Anastasia Carbonari and Lara Gillespie, the girls of the UAE Development Team win the team time trial in the first stage of the Trofeo Ponente in Rosa in Italy. A deserved victory for Carlotta Cipressi, Yuliia Biriukova, Anastasia Carbonari, Francesca Pellegrini, Federica Piergiovanni and Linda Zanetti who covered 15.6 km with a time of 22'28 (second place Uzbekistan +21''). The girls directed by Anna Badegruber were perfect, because on their Colnago K.one bikes they demonstrated excellent harmony, perfect synchronism and great team spirit. This is the philosophy with which the girls of the UAE Development Team started their adventure and the results arrived much earlier than expected, because this is the first victory of the season. 

The italian Carlotta Cipressi is the first leader of the Trofeo Ponente in Rosa, an athlete who started the new season very well and who competed very well at Vuelta CV Feminas. Here are her words:

“The pink jersey is on my shoulders, but obviously the merit goes to the whole team. We are a new project, we are getting to know each other and compete together as a team. Today we did a great job considering it was the first team time trial we participated in. We all reached the finish line together and that's wonderful. Tomorrow we will try to maintain our leadership. It will be nice to race in Diano Marina tomorrow with the leader's jersey on my shoulders on Women's Day".