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 and was the ninth race of the 2008 UCI Women's Road World Cup season.
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, 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 time with an incredible 38:26.7. The last two teams to go – and Columbia – were the only ones who looked capable of besting the Cervelo-Lifeforce time, but although they were both faster than , neither were able to come within a minute of the Swiss team. finished three seconds quicker than 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 Cuppoints1 38' 56" 35 35 35 352 + 1' 14" 30 30 30 303 + 1' 27" 25 25 25 254 + 1' 30" 20 20 20 205Vrienden van het Platteland + 1' 56" 16 16 16 16 16 166 + 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.
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