Tom Dumoulins (Team Sunweb) wins Giro d Italian stage 1 ITT in Jerusalem, Israel.

Tom Domoulin (Team Sunweb) made perfect start to his Giro d Italia bid defence, by striking to his opponents by winning the opening stage 1 time individual trial in Jerusalem and put himself in the pink jersey and gain significant time on his general classification rivals.

The Dutchman clocked 12:02 on the 9.7-kilometre course, beating Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing) by two seconds. Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Soudal) finished third on the stage, losing out to Dennis by a few hundredths of a second.
Chaves has lost 46 seconds
Bennett 49 seconds
Aru 50 seconds
Lopez 57 seconds
Woods 1'01
Meintjes 1'08

How day 1 unfolded

The drama had begun before the first rider had even begun warming up, as several riders hit the deck while performing a recon of the 9.7km Jerusalem course, which had been kept open to the heavy city centre traffic during the week. Froome and Lopez both suffered cuts and abrasions but took to the start, though the situation was more serious for Kanstantsin Siutsou (Bahrain-Merida), who fractured a vertebra and had to withdraw from the race.

General classification top 9

stage 1 result

1, Tom Dumoulin (Netherland) Team Sunweb0:12:02,
2, Rohan Dennis (Australia) BMC Racing Team0:00:02,
3,Victor Campenaerts (Belgium) Lotto Soudal,
4, José Gonçalves (Portugal) Katusha-Alpecin0:00:12,
 5, Alex Dowsett (GBr) Katusha-Alpecin0:00:16,
6, Pello Bilbao (Spain) Astana Pro Team0:00:18,
7, Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott0:00:20,
8,Maximilian Schachmann (Germany) Quick-Step Floors0:00:21,
 9, Tony Martin (Germany) Katusha-Alpecin0:00:27