Giro d'Italia 2025: Tirana time trial to Joshua Tarling, Primoz Roglic is already pink jersey

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The very young British rider Joshua Tarling, bearer of the Ineos Grenadiers and a specialist in races against the clock, won the Tirana time trial, the second stage of the Giro d’Italia 2025.

The 21-year-old Welshman covered the 13.7 kilometers of the course in 16’07”, finishing one second ahead of Slovenian Primoz Roglic, winner of the pink race in 2023, and three ahead of Australian Jay Vine of UAE Team Emirates.

Roglic, of Red Bul-Bora-Hansgrohe, snatched the pink jersey from Dane Mads Pedersen, of Lidl-Trek, who finished seventh, by just one second. Third at 5 seconds was Czech Mathias Vacek, Pedersen’s teammate.

The first Italian in the overall standings is Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious), eighth at 25 seconds, while in the time trial Edoardo Affini, also a time trial specialist like Tarling, finished fourth at 6 seconds behind the Briton.

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