Søren Wærenskjold (Uno-X Mobility) received stage 2 of the Tour of Denmark after a busy dash into Gladsaxe, timing his dash completely to energy to a 3rd victory of the season.
Younger Belgian sprinter Steffen De Schuyteneer (Lotto) took a formidable second place, carefully adopted by Axel Zingle (Visma-Lease a Bike) in third and Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in fourth, within the Belgian’s first race since crashing closely out of the Tour de France.
Race chief Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) solely managed ninth within the dash end, after one in all his lead-out males, Ryan Gibbons, crashed within the run-in, and was washed away within the wheels because the velocity ramped up for the ultimate cost to the road.
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Regardless of gaining no bonus seconds, he nonetheless holds onto the blue jersey, with the stage 3 time trial out and again from Kerteminde on Thursday set to play a giant position in deciding the general GC standings.
“I had fully totally different legs at present. Each my physique and legs labored a lot better,” stated Wærenskjold.
“It was chaotic within the ultimate. We had Rasmus within the breakaway, however sadly, they did not get a lot time. Then I noticed my alternative.
“We tried to place ourselves nicely. We have been somewhat additional forward than we had deliberate, with 700 m left. It was higher to be additional forward than too far behind.”
Racing headed to Zealand for stage 2 of the Tour of Denmark, with a seven-rider breakaway establishing itself within the first 20km of the stage, heading away from Rødovre simply west of Copenhagen.
It was made up of six Danes: Rasmus Bøgh Wallin (Uno-X Mobility), Sebastian Nielsen (Unibet Tietema Rockets), Boas Lysgaard (BHS-PL Beton Bornholm), Mads Andersen, Matias Malmberg (AIRTOX-Carl Ras) and Magnus Machholdt (Give Metal-2M Biking Elite), and one French rider – Anton Muller (Novo Nordisk).
With an nearly fully flat stage on supply, besides for 2 small climbs shorter than 300 metres, the riders in entrance have been solely afforded a small lead, with the sprint-focussed groups controlling on the entrance.
Muller dropped out of the break attributable to a crash, leaving solely six in entrance, and so they led into the ultimate 16km of the stage and native laps across the end location of Gladsaxe with a 30-second lead.
The final remnants of the break, Wallin and Malmberg, led into the ultimate lap with a small lead, however a crash within the peloton disrupted the chasing peloton, with round 10 riders, together with inexperienced jersey Julius Johansen (Denmark), hitting the deck.
The break was lastly caught with 3km to go, after which a number of groups took over to try to management the dash finale. Lotto, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Lidl-Trek all tried to place their leaders, but it surely was Uno-X Mobility who discovered themself within the excellent place to take the win.
A late solo transfer from Daniel Stampe (BHS-PL Beton Bornholm) was adopted by Nils Eekhoff (Picnic PostNL), which opened up the dash, with Wærenskjold slingshotting out of his slipstream to cost to the victory.
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