Czech Tour: Junior Lecerf wins overall as Jannis Peter wins stage 4

Simply as Junior Lecerf (Soudal-QuickStep) appeared to have misplaced the Czech Tour general on the ultimate climb, the rider who was set to grab victory from him on the final, Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma-Lease a Bike), fully pale, handing the win again to Lecerf in a dramatic finale.

Uijtdebroeks had stormed away from the race chief on the ultimate climb to Pustevny, constructing a lead shut to twenty seconds and holding it into the ultimate kilometre. However his legs started to fail because the end approached, and he was caught by the Lecerf-led chase group simply metres earlier than the road.

Jannis Peter (Vorarlberg) stunned the group of favourites to win the ultimate stage with a breathless grind to the road, with Uijtdebroeks taking second on the ultimate day, and Lecerf ending third, in a position to put his arms within the air realizing general victory was safe.

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This was Lecerf’s career-first GC victory, with an eventual successful margin of seven seconds to Uijtdebroeks and eight seconds to Alessandro Fancellu (Workforce UKYO) in third.

The 179km stage 4 delivered the anticipated GC showdown atop the punchy Pustevny climb, the second summit end of the stage race.

After round 70km of racing on the ultimate stage of the Czech Tour, heading out of Kroměříž to Pustevny, a 12-man group received away forward of the primary lap up what can be the ending climb to Pustevny to type the breakaway. They’d a four-minute lead with just below 100km remaining.

It was made up of stage 3 winner Liam Walsh, Cameron Scott (CCACHE x BODYWRAP), Nicolò Garibbo (UKYO), Šimon Vaníček (ATT Investments), Michal Schuran (United Delivery), Michael Boroš (Elkov-Kasper), Patryk Stosz (Voster ATS), Loïc Bettendorff (Hrinkow Advarics), Michiel van Vliet, Viego Tijssen (Metec – SOLARWATT p/b Mantel), Ondřej Pokorný (TUFO-Pardus Prostějov) and Dominik Amann (Vorarlberg).

On the primary of two ascents of the Pustevny (5.5km at 7.5%), two riders dropped the entrance group, whereas the escapees’ benefit shrank from a most of 4 minutes to hover across the 2-minute mark inside 50km to go.

Visma Lease a Bike, working for Cian Uijtdebroeks, put two riders on the entrance of the peloton to regulate the hole and to place stress on race chief Junior Lecerf (Soudal-Quickstep).

Not liking the cooperation within the break, Walsh attacked solo with 41km to go, and shortly constructed a small hole to his former break companions. Bettendorf and Van Vliet gave chase and finally bridged as much as the Australian, however with bonus seconds on provide on the end, their destiny was sealed.

The trio was reeled again inside 7km to go along with the peloton driving to the underside of the ultimate climb.

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