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Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain Merida) won the mass sprint on the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman, beating Greg van Avermaet (CCC Team) and Clement Venturini (AG2R La Mondiale). It was the first win of the season for both Colbreli and Bahrain Merida. Alexey Lutsenko, finishing within the field, easily retained his overall lead. Van Avermaet moved up a place to second at 14 seconds, while Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) dropped to third at 19 seconds. The shortest stage at 131km, which had a slightly uphill...
Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) won his second consecutive stage at the Tour of Oman and took the overall race lead in Qurayyat on stage 3 after attacks and echelons made for a tough day in the saddle. Lutsenko gave the Astana team its fifth victory in just four days after success at the Vuelta Murcia, the Tour de la Provence and Miguel Angel Lopez’s overall victory at the Colombia 2.1 stage race. Lutsenko won the Tour of Oman in 2018 and seems on form achieve that again. On Sunday, he attacked on th...
Simone Velasco (Nero Sottoli - Sella Italia - KTM) won the Trofeo Laigueglia through a long solo effort, conquering the climbs and taking every risk on the rolling course. Nicola Bagioli (Nippo - Vini Fantini - Faizane) won the sprint from small group for second, with Matteo Sobrero of the Italian national team taking third. It was the first professional career win for the 23-year-old Velasco. He jumped from the peloton with three others as the race entered the first lap of the closing circuit ...
Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe) edged out Marcel Kittel (Katusha-Alpecin) and Luka Mezgec (Mitchelton-Scott) to win the 34th edition of the Clasica de Almeria on Sunday. The German national champion timed his sprint perfectly, coming off Mezgecs wheel with just over 125m to the line and powering clear of the opposition. Kittel came from further back but gave himself too much to do. In the end, the Katusha rider narrowly missed out on the win, with Ackermann taking his first win of the 2019 se...
John Degenkolb of Trek-Segafredo won the fourth and last stage of the Tour de La Provence ahead of Simon Clarke from EF Education First on Sunday. Clarke gained enough time bonus to equal race leader Gorka Izagirre of Astana on time but the Spanish national champion was declared the fourth winner of the event after Thomas Voeckler, Rohan Dennis and Alexandre Geniez because of his advantage in hundredth of a second in the opening time trial. The first victory is always very important and its goo...
Defending champion Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) won stage 2 of the Tour of Oman after a late solo attack. Lutsenko won ahead of stage 1 winner Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) and Ryan Gibbons (Dimension Data). Lutsenko finished three seconds clear of a charging Kristoff, with the Norwegian doing just enough to retain his race lead. The result moved Lutsenko into second overall, three seconds down, while Gibbons jumped to third overall at 12 seconds. It’s a really good victory for me and my t...