Mohoric Wins Binck Bank Tour

19 August 2018 03:26
Matej Mohoric of Bahrain Merida has won the Binck Bank Tour. Bahrain Merida’s Macej Mohoric went into the final seventh stage with a 32 seconds lead over Team Sunweb’s Michael Matthews. The final stage was over a 212.7km course from Lacs de l'Eau d'Heure to Geraardsbergen. With the peloton all together, Elmar Reinders, the Primus Combativity leader, took the first sprint before British rider Scott Thwaites of Dimension Data got into a break with Francisco Ventoso (BMC), Andrey Grivko (Astana), Tom Scully (EF Education), and Jan Willem Van Schip (Roompot NL). They took a lead of a minute but were pulled back into line by the pack. Out of which a new break of Laurens De Vreese (Astana), Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL-Jumbo), Markel Irizar (Trek), Jonas Rickaert (SVB), Elmar Reinders (Roompor NL), Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Wanty Group Gobert) and Ludwig De Winter (WVA) formed. They had a lead of three minutes with 130kms to go and took their lead out to 4.30 before dropping down to 3.30 as the break crossed the finish line for the first time of three 25.6km closing laps complete with cobbles and 1.37 with 64kms left. Dries De Bondt crashed out as the break split with only three in Van Keirsbulck, Irizar and De Vreese now ahead with 56.1kms to go. Riders were strung out on the Mur climb as the gap to the leaders went down to under a minute. Van Keirsbulck took the second sprint before Paul Martens (TLJ) and Jonas Rickaert (SVB) joined him. Rickaert dropped back and Tim Wellens and Oliver Naesen joined with Naesen taking eight seconds in the Golden Kilometre. Matthews and Stybar joined the breaK before Naesen pushed on until he was caught by Stybar with six kilometres to go. Matej Mohoric got past the front group and was on front going under the flam rouge. Michael Matthews of Team Sunweb took on Van Avermaet and was able to win in 4.48.36 ahead of Van Avermaet and Stybar.Matej Mohoric of Bahrain Merida finished eleven seconds down and took the win overall.KEV MONKS FOR DIGITAL SPORTS GROUP .read full article

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