Simply three days on from his first-ever skilled victory, Tobias Lund Andresen (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) scored his third, going lengthy within the dash on stage 7 of the Tour of Turkey to win in İzmir.
The Dane appeared set to guide out star sprinter Fabio Jakobsen, however saved pushing on to the road after launching 200 metres out to carry off Timothy Dupont (Tartoletto-Isorex) and Sacha Weemaes (Bingoal WB) to triumph.
DSM had been among the many groups to arrange the dash – one other hectic end – inside the ultimate kilometre, with the Dutch squad joined on the entrance by Polti-Kometa, Bingoal WB, and Astana Qazaqstan.
Nevertheless, it appeared prefer it was the Kazakhstani squad who had management on the ultimate run to the road on the flat stage. Davide Ballerini and stage 2 winner Max Kanter led out Mark Cavendish in prime place, although the Manxman appeared to endure a series drawback simply because the dash was launched.
Beside him, Andresen was on his means, main from the entrance with Dupont and Weemaes behind him. Jakobsen, nonetheless, was caught a little bit additional again, leaving 21-year-old Andresen to maintain flying in the direction of the end line and seize one other well-deserved victory.
“That was a lead out. Fabio was behind my wheel. The whole lot was excellent and in keeping with plan. Then he informed me he received a bit squeezed so I needed to go for it. I could not see anybody in my wheel and simply went for my very own dash,” Andresen stated after the end.
“I simply hoped Fabio was in my slipstream and will come round me on the finish. However while you get so near the end you simply must safe the win and cross the end line first.
“That is large. Three wins in a single stage race. And with the crew, our momentum is simply excellent. We now have 5 wins in seven levels and we’re main GC. It looks like a dream in the intervening time. GC is our precedence. A GC win right here will probably be large.
“I am going to hopefully go for it on the Giro. That race is one thing else. I do not wish to get too cocky and too naive. We’ll take it daily and Fabio is displaying nice pace and nice kind. I believe we’ve got a extremely good alternative with the him.”
The stage, a principally flat 125km run from Çeşme to İzmir, introduced no modifications to the final classification with one other dash in Istanbul rounding off the race on Sunday. Frank van den Broek (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) leads by 4 seconds from Merhawi Kudus (Terengganu), whereas Paul Double (Polti-Kometa) is third at 9 seconds.
The inexperienced factors jersey, in the meantime, passes shoulders from stage 3 winner Giovanni Lonardi (Polti-Kometa) to stage winner Andresen, who now appears to be like to be the favorite to safe it on Sunday’s barely trickier uphill dash in Istanbul.
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