{"id":85769,"date":"2026-06-18T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/?p=85769"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:34:07","slug":"longo-borghini-takes-yellow-in-locarno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/longo-borghini-takes-yellow-in-locarno\/","title":{"rendered":"Longo Borghini takes yellow in Locarno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) wins stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse Women and now leads the General Classification. The Italian was not to be beaten in the finale of the 105.3-kilometre circuit around Locarno, crossing the line with a 30-second advantage over Sarah Van Dam (Team Visma | Lease a Bike). Steffi H\u00e4berlin (Team SD Worx Protime) finished a strong third, with Marlen Reusser (Movistar Team) finishing with the same time in 4th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a controlled first half of the race, Margot Vanpachtenbeke (Lidl-Trek) and Carlotta Cipressi (Human Powered Health) broke away from the peloton. The pair extended their lead to just under two minutes at one point but were reeled in before the decisive climbs of the finale.<\/p>\n<p>Then the favourites took control of the race. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon\/\/SRAM zondacrypto) accelerated with around15 kilometres remaining, and shortly afterwards H\u00e4berlin tried to move to the front ahead of the descent. On the second climb it was ultimately Longo Borghini who launched the decisive attack. She dropped the group containing Reusser, Niewiadoma-Phinney and Van Dam to tackle the final flat kilometres with a small advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the finish the chasing group made a costly mistake: Reusser and Niewiadoma-Phinney took a wrong turn around 2.5 kilometres from the line. Longo Borghini could not be caught and so celebrated the stage win in Locarno. In the General Classification she now leads by 27 seconds over Ailish Lauren Dickson (FDJ United \u2013 SUEZ). Van Dam is third at 34 seconds.<\/p>\n<h2>\nH\u00e4berlin on the podium, Reusser frustrated<\/h2>\n<p>For Switzerland, Steffi H\u00e4berlin delivered the best result of the day with 3rd place. The young Swiss rider was aggressive in the finale and moved up to 4th in the General Classification. Reusser, 4th on the stage, now sits in 5th overall, 57 seconds behind Longo Borghini.<\/p>\n<p>Marlen Reusser was understandably disappointed after the race. \u201cThis is really incredibly frustrating,\u201d she said in a TV interview, referring to the wrong turn just before the finish. At the same time, the Bernese rider remained defiant: \u201cEverything is still possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) wins stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse Women and now leads the General Classification. The Italian was not to be beaten in the finale of the 105.3-kilometre circuit around Locarno, crossing the line with a 30-second advantage over Sarah Van Dam (Team Visma | Lease a Bike). Steffi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":85755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,114],"class_list":["post-85769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-women-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86305,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85769\/revisions\/86305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourdesuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}