Shelley Olds wins the Trofeo Costa Etrusca!

American Shelley Olds won the 122-km Trofeo Costa Etrusca in Cecina, Italy Sunday after beating out Belgium’s Grace Verbeke and the Netherlands’ Martine Bras in the final sprint.

Shelley crossed the finish line with a time of 2:58:00, and her Diadora-Pasta Zara teammate Olga Zabelinskaya came in not long after, finishing 8th overall.

The race kicked off the Italian women’s racing season, and Shelley gave her Italian-based team their first win in their home country, as well as their first overall win of the 2011 season.