Ben Healy finishes 11th in opening time trial at Tour of Basque Country

The German was the first leader of the event after the inaugural time trial on Monday.

German cyclist Maximilian Schachmann (Soudal Quick Step) celebrated his first world series victory since 2021. He won the first stage of the Tour of the Basque Country, a 16.5 km time trial around the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Joao Almeida was only half a second behind.

The German is the leader, in which Pello Bilbao gave 27 seconds, Castrillo was the best Spanish to 22" and Enric Mas was far away, exceeding the minute of delay Read

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Maximilian Schachmann is the first yellow winner of this year's Basque Country Tour. He won the time trial, Florian Lipowitz was not even a second slower than the third.

Ben Healy finishes 11th in opening time trial at Tour of Basque Country

Max Schachmann of Soudal-Quick Step won the 16.5km effort around Vitoria-Gastiez.