2008 Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT

2008 Open de Suède VårgårdaTeam time trial 2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup 9 of 11 1 August 2008 1 32 km 38' 56" CWT 2008 SLU 2008b NUR women 2008 Inaugural event 2009 The 2008 Open de Suède Vårgårda – team time trial was the first team time trial running on the Open de Suède Vårgårda. It was held on 1 August 2008 over a distance of 32 km 1 off and was the ninth race of the 2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup season.http://www.cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=3928 Open de Suède Vargarda T.T.T. (32 km) CQ ranking 1 August 2008 11 October 2012 Race Top Girls-Fassa Bortolo-Raxy Line was the first of the thirteen teams to set off due to its lowly position on the World Cup overall standings. The team returned with a time of 44:27.5, giving the others something to aim at. Third team to start, Norway, caught its Scandinavian rival Finland in the closing stages to take more than a minute off the Top Girls time with 43:13.7. The first really fast time was posted by the Vrienden Van Het Platteland team, pushing it closer to the 40 minute mark with 40:52.9. The very next team, FLX 2008 pushed it still lower though with 40:26.4. Despite being outstanding favourites, the Cervelo-Lifeforce team was – because of its position in the World Cup standings – fourth from last to go. The team blitzed around the course knocking all but a minute and a half off the FLX 2008 yes time with an incredible 38:26.7. The last two teams to go – NUR women 2008 and Columbia – were the only ones who looked capable of besting the Cervelo-Lifeforce time, but although they were both faster than FLX 2008 yes, neither were able to come within a minute of the Swiss team. NUR women 2008 yes finished three seconds quicker than FLX 2008 yes to take a provisional second place, but Columbia were consistently faster all the way around and pushed them into third. General standings (top 10) TeamCyclistsTimeWorld Cuppoints1CWT 2008Priska Doppmann SUI 38' 56" 35Karin Thürig SUI 35Christiane Soeder AUT 35Carla Ryan AUS 352SLU 2008bLuise Keller GER + 1' 14" 30Alexis Rhodes AUS 30Ina-Yoko Teutenberg GER 30Linda Villumsen NZL 303NUR women 2008Charlotte Becker GER + 1' 27" 25Suzanne de Goede NED 25Edita Pučinskaitė LTU 25Larissa Kleinmann GER 254FLX 2008Loes Gunnewijk NED + 1' 30" 20Loes Markerink NED 20Trine Schmidt DEN 20Iris Slappendel NED 205Vrienden van het PlattelandEllen van Dijk NED + 1' 56" 16Liesbet De Vocht BEL 16An van Rie BEL 16Marit Huisman NED 16Annemiek van Vleuten NED 16Liesbeth Bakker NED 166LNL 2008 + 2' 41" 157Team DSB Bank + 2' 46" 148Sweden + 3' 40" 139Menikini–Selle Italia–Master Colors + 3' 49" 1210Ukraine + 4' 17" 11 Results from cqranking.com. References External links Official website Category:2008 in women's road cycling Category:2008 in Swedish sport Category:2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup Category:Open de Suède Vårgårda Category:21st century in Västra Götaland County