Granfondo Suisse for Raimondi and Santeliz Bautista, time trial for Dederichs and Lopez Irreno

Kuva Swiss

In the 7,4km mountain time trial on Friday evening, the overall win was for home rider Armin Dederichs, winning 48 seconds ahead of Wout Driever from the Netherlands.  French Théo Cante was third at 1m05.

The victory in the women time trial was for Colombian Gabriela Lopez Irreno who won in a time of 23m39, 1m25 faster than Ethiopean Eyeru Tesfoam Gebru and 1m47 to Dutch Diewertje Modder.

The average speed of both winners was respectively 22.9 and 18.8 km/h up the 6.3% climb.

With a day of rest with the UCI Gravel event taking place, the 150km granfondo on Sunday was a real challenge with its 3700m of elevation and six mountain peaks.

Italian Alex Raimondi won in a time of 4:36:44 and an average speed of 32.5 km/h.  Runner up Sebastian Druszkiewicz from Poland finished at 5m28 on top of Col de la Croix while Italian Alessandro Barra got overall third at 6m03.

Venezuelan Vanessa Santeliz Bautista was the best female climber, winning in a time of 5:21:53 and an average speed of 28km/h. The former pro won 24m31 ahead of Polish Alina Mylka and 26m02 ahead of Alexia Schmid.

In the mediofondo as qualifier for men over 60 and women over 50, the victories in these respective age categories were for Swiss Ewald Wolf and Sybille Weidner.

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