Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) has won the 45th Volta ao Algarve Stage
Two.
The main race in
Portugal, which is a World Tour event, had Deceuninck Quick Step Fabio Jakobsen
in the lead for this second 187.4km stage from Almodôvar to Fóia which saw Team Sky’s Eddie Dunbar, Luís
Mendonça (Rádio Popular-Boavista) and Aleksandr Grigorev (Sporting-Tavira) not starting
after a crash which took down eighty riders on the opening stage.
William
Barta (CCC Team), Olivier le Gac (Groupama-FDJ), Brian van Goethem (Lotto
Soudal), Rafael Reis (W52-FC Porto), Bruno Silva (Efapel) and Jesús Nanclares
(Miranda-Mortágua) broke after two kilometres and were 2.15 ahead sixteen
kilometres later.
Silva
took the sprint at Almodôvar as the gap steadied at 1.45 after 55kms of racing.
Reis
was first over the climb at Cavalos but the break was caught and Dmitrii
Strakhov (Team Katusha Alpecin) and Riccardo Zoidl (CCC Team) led with forty
kilometres left and on the penultimate climb. Antunes came up to join Zoidl and
was first over the climb at Pomba.
They
were 26 seconds ahead of four riders and 1.10 ahead of the pack. Antunes took
the sprint with Tim De Clerq taking the final point before the break ended with
16.4kms to go.
Team
Sky and Deceuninck Quick Step had riders on the front as the last eight
kilometres were all uphill with an average of 6.8%.
Rider
were dropped on the climb as Tao Geoghagen-Hart did a big turn on the front.
Antunes
attacked with Wout Poels chasing him and then the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE
Team Emirates) came up to take the win in 4.48.25, a second ahead of Wout Poels
and Enric Maas and the overall lead.
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