Tobias Lund Andresen (DSM-Firmenich-PostNL) took back-to-back wins on the Tour of Turkey after navigating the technical finale on stage 5 and powering to the road forward of teammate Fabio Jakobsen.
The Dane timed his dash completely, solely hitting the entrance within the last 50 metres after the slim, winding end left the leadout trains fractured heading into Kuşadası.
Jakobsen was in a position to sit up and have fun his teammate’s win as they crossed the road for an important 1-2 end forward of Iúri Leitão (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA). It’s the Dutch crew’s third win of the week and Lund Andresen’s second at skilled stage after his maiden victory yesterday.
Andresen additionally prolonged his lead on the head of the GC with extra bonus seconds gained on the road. He takes a 14-second lead over Giovanni Lonardi (Polti-Kometa) heading into tomorrow’s summit end stage from Kuşadası to Manisa the place the general standings shall be fully modified and the climbers will take over.
“It’s unbelievable man. We had been going for Fabio however he advised me with 2km to go that I ought to simply go together with my very own dash,” a delighted Andresen mentioned post-race.
“I needed to open up early and it got here a lot as a shock that I nearly forgot to have fun. Then it is simply unimaginable, I am going over the end line and I see Fabio come round me for second place.
“The entire crew did superb and we did superb as deliberate. It simply exhibits a brand new class to this crew how we rode at present.”
The fifth day of racing in Turkey noticed a seven-man break once more go up the highway with 156km to go, Antonio Polga (Novo Nordisk), Mauro Verwilt (Tarteletto-Isorex), Oliver Mattheis (BIKE AID), Jacob Scott (REMBE Professional Biking Group Sauerland), Genki Yamamoto (Kinan Racing), Michał Pomorski and Konrad Czabok (Mazowsze Serce Polski).
A extra easy chase ensued for the peloton than on the earlier levels with Bora-Hansgrohe and Astana Qazaqstan taking over many of the mantle alongside the 177.9km route from Bodrum to Kuşadası.
Whereas the hole steadily got here down all through the primarily flat route, the break attacked itself over one of many last uncategorised climbs as riders tried to be the final males standing from the early transfer, however with out a lot success.
Mattheis was probably the most energetic and final to be dragged again with 5km to go. Polti-Kometa placed on the tempo on each rise to try to uninteresting the legs of pure sprinters Welsford, Cavendish and Jakobsen and provides stage 3 winner Giovanni Lonardi the most effective likelihood.
A late assault was launched curiously by Danny van Poppel for Bora-Hansgrohe as they entered the very technical ending sector the place twists and turns strung out the peloton. However he was rapidly pegged again by Bram Welten (DSM-Firmenich PostNL).
Andresen was initially on Welten’s wheel as he chased down the Dutchman however dropped himself again into the bunch to make sure he didn’t dash too early. He stayed within the wheels till Rory Townsend (Q36.5) and Martijn Budding (TDT-Unibet) hit out for the road earlier than he opened up behind.
With shoulders barging and the highway narrowing on the entrance, the Dane stayed affected person and finally discovered a lane to dash earlier than rushing previous a tiring Van Poppel and Budding with Jakobsen in his wheel.
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