Good performance by the American Kristen Faulkner who today, after a 90-kilometer breakaway, won the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia women by posting, the 112.8 km San Michele all'Adige-San Lorenzo Dorsino.
The American of the BikeExchange Jayco team had already set herself in the first stage of this Giro, an individual time trial.
Today she detached her escape companion Gaia Realini on the Daone Pass and set off towards success.
In second place, 59 "behind, Marta Cavalli, third Elisa Longo Borghini at 1'13" and fourth, with the same gap, the Dutch Annemiek Van Vleuten, who kept the pink jersey with 1'52 "on Cavalli. Tomorrow the tenth and last stage of this Giro women, on paper that is irrelevant for the big names, with arrival in Padua. So Van Vleuten is getting closer and closer to his third triumph in the '