Lenny Martinez outkicked Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) in a two-man dash to win the Tour du Doubs, taking his second victory in three days following his win at Basic Grand Besançon Doubs on Friday. The French rider claimed the third win in three days for his Groupama-FDJ squad.
Crossing the road eight seconds, José Manuel Diaz (Burgos-BH) was third.
Diaz ignited the fireworks on the underside of the ultimate steep climb of Larmont with a solo assault. Martinez, Berthet and some extra riders gave chase to lastly join with the Spaniard inside three kilometres to go, forming a gaggle of round 10 riders together with final yr’s winner Jesus Herrada and his Cofidis teammate Guillaume Martin.
Martinez countered Berthet’s assault and the 2 dropped the opposite two riders with lower than 2km to go. The 2 riders labored collectively on the ultimate sprint to the road till Berthet couldn’t reply’s Martinez acceleration within the last 150 metres.
“We made it three out of three this weekend and I’m so happy with the staff. We actually did an incredible job,” Martinez instructed France3. His teammate David Gaudu gained the Tour du Jura on Saturday.
“I believe that with Clément, we had been maybe the 2 strongest. We escaped a number of instances collectively I believe and as soon as it was the suitable one and I instructed him that we should always work collectively. After which there you go, Afterwards, within the dash, I did not know what we had been going to do. However at the very least we had been going to do one and two and it was necessary to collaborate.”
As soon as once more a significant crash compelled the neutralization of Tour du Doubs, 40km into the race in order that medical personnel might attend to 3 injured riders from the Kern Pharma staff. After some 50 minutes, the race was re-started with the climb of Belleherbe faraway from the route.
A breakaway of 12 riders shaped quickly after and established a most hole of three:50 earlier than the ultimate escapees had been reeled in by a thinned-out area charging up the Larmont.
“Truthfully, I actually did not really feel good the entire race. The race was neutralized, so there was just a little break within the race. It is not likely simple to get going once more and my legs weren’t responding too nicely, there have been assaults from in every single place. It was a little bit of chaos on this race and in the long run, within the final bump, I used to be getting higher and higher, the nearer we bought to the road. So there you will have it, I am very comfortable to get the victory.”
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