Max Schachmann wins Itzulia Basque Counry time-trial as Almeida and Lipowitz gain time on the competition
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Stage 1 of the Itzulia Basque Country was a flat time-trial where differences could be made in the overall classification and that was definitely the case. A few men lost substantial time whilst João Almeida and Florian Lipowitz made the best of it. Max Schachmann however was the big winner of the day, soaring his first triumph since returning to Soudal - Quick-Step.
Early in the day it was expected that Victor Campenaerts would take over the hot seat, however the Visma rider wasn't having the best legs on the day and he was quite behind a surprising Max Schachmann who ended up staying in the lead for most of the day. In the 16-kilometer long effort there were many riders that came close to his time, but none managed to beat it.
The GC fight turned very serious once Florian Lipowitz crossed the finish, only 1 second slower than the German, and then João Almeida managed to put in a time less than 1 second slower... Meanwhile the likes of Enric Mas and Sepp Kuss would lose over a minute and even Santiago Buitrago lost a lot of GC victory aspirations with a 46-second loss at the time. Brandon McNulty was the other big favourite of the day and the last rider to start his effort, but had a disappointing time and was nowhere near the first riders.
| 1 | Schachmann Max | Soudal Quick-Step | 00:18:37 |
| 2 | Almeida Joao | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | + 00 |
| 3 | Lipowitz Florian | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 01 |
| 4 | Hayter Ethan | Soudal Quick-Step | + 06 |
| 5 | Vlasov Aleksandr | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 10 |
| 6 | Van Wilder Ilan | Soudal Quick-Step | + 11 |
| 7 | Campenaerts Victor | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 12 |
| 8 | Skjelmose Mattias | Lidl-Trek | + 12 |
| 9 | Armirail Bruno | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 13 |
| 10 | Leonard Michael | INEOS Grenadiers | + 16 |
| 11 | Healy Ben | EF Education-EasyPost | + 18 |
| 12 | Oliveira Nelson | Movistar Team | + 18 |
| 13 | Schmid Mauro | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 20 |
| 14 | Castrillo Pablo | Movistar Team | + 22 |
| 15 | del Toro Isaac | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | + 23 |
| 16 | Martinez Daniel | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 23 |
| 17 | Hatherly Alan | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 25 |
| 18 | Großschartner Felix | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | + 26 |
| 19 | Bilbao Pello | Bahrain Victorious | + 27 |
| 20 | Soler Marc | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | + 28 |
| 21 | Guernalec Thibault | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | + 28 |
| 22 | Kelderman Wilco | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 33 |
| 23 | Tejada Harold | XDS Astana Team | + 33 |
| 24 | McNulty Brandon | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | + 34 |
| 25 | Scotson Callum | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 41 |
| 26 | Izagirre Ion | Cofidis | + 41 |
| 27 | Gruel Thibaud | Groupama-FDJ | + 42 |
| 28 | Cras Steff | Team TotalEnergies | + 42 |
| 29 | Grégoire Romain | Groupama-FDJ | + 42 |
| 30 | Arrieta Igor | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | + 43 |
| 31 | Dunbar Edward | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 44 |
| 32 | Voisard Yannis | Tudor Pro Cycling Team | + 45 |
| 33 | Fisher-Black Finn | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 46 |
| 34 | Buitrago Santiago | Bahrain Victorious | + 46 |
| 35 | Van Gils Maxim | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 48 |
| 36 | Simmons Quinn | Lidl-Trek | + 49 |
| 37 | Perez Anthony | Cofidis | + 53 |
| 38 | Vergallito Luca | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 53 |
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