The Dutchman was our highest-ranked rider on the opening day of the race.

Danmark Rundt, the country’s most important race, got underway Tuesday afternoon with a flat stage held around Aalborg. On paper, it should have been a pretty straightforward day, with the sprinters’ teams controlling the breakaway and a mass gallop to decide the first leader of the competition, but it turned out to be more complicated.

The main reason for this was that once the six-man breakaway was reeled in – in part, thanks to a mammoth work of the Soudal Quick-Step boys – attacks began coming left and right. In the last 30 kilometers of the stage, these countless accelerations and a crash that ended up splitting the bunch played a huge role in the final outcome. Despite an incredibly long pull of Casper Pedersen – who made his return from injury at his home race – in the closing kilometers, late attacker Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X) made it, taking the win by a handful of seconds.

Fabio Jakobsen was the fastest rider of the chasing group, taking runner-up behind the Norwegian for what was his ninth podium finish of the season, a result that puts him in second place on the general classification. The race will now continue with an undulating stage to Silkeborg, but without Mauri Vansevenant. The Belgian was among those involved in the crash and had to abandon the race, but fortunately only with some abrasions and surface injuries as consequence.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Søren Wærenskjold
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
3:50:10
2 Fabio Jakobsen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:06
3 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
0:06
4 Tobias Lund Andresen
Team dsm - firmenich
0:06
5 Vito Braet
Team Flanders - Baloise
0:06
6 Søren Kragh Andersen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:06
7 Sebastian Kolze Changizi
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:06
8 Sebastian Nielsen
Team ColoQuick
0:06
9 Andreas Stokbro Nielsen
Leopard TOGT Pro Cycling
0:06
10 Luca Colnaghi
Green Project - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè
0:06
21 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:06
40 Tim Declercq
Soudal Quick-Step
0:06
62 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
4:59
79 Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Soudal Quick-Step
6:22
85 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
6:22
DNF Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
-03:50:10
1 Søren Wærenskjold
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
3:50:00
2 Fabio Jakobsen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:10
3 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
0:12
4 Filippo Ridolfo
Team Novo Nordisk
0:14
5 Tobias Lund Andresen
Team dsm - firmenich
0:16
6 Vito Braet
Team Flanders - Baloise
0:16
7 Søren Kragh Andersen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:16
8 Sebastian Kolze Changizi
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:16
9 Sebastian Nielsen
Team ColoQuick
0:16
10 Andreas Stokbro Nielsen
Leopard TOGT Pro Cycling
0:16
22 Casper Pedersen
Soudal Quick-Step
0:16
41 Tim Declercq
Soudal Quick-Step
0:16
63 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
5:09
79 Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Soudal Quick-Step
6:32
85 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
6:32
1 Søren Wærenskjold
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
15 pt
2 Fabio Jakobsen
Soudal Quick-Step
12 pt
3 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
10 pt
4 Tobias Lund Andresen
Team dsm - firmenich
9 pt
5 Kristian Egholm
Restaurant Suri - Carl Ras
8 pt
6 Vito Braet
Team Flanders - Baloise
8 pt
7 Søren Kragh Andersen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
7 pt
8 Sebastian Kolze Changizi
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
6 pt
9 Nicklas Amdi Pedersen
Team ColoQuick
5 pt
10 Sebastian Nielsen
Team ColoQuick
5 pt
1 Mads Østergaard Kristensen
Leopard TOGT Pro Cycling
20 pt
2 Wessel Krul
Human Powered Health
18 pt
3 Nicklas Amdi Pedersen
Team ColoQuick
10 pt
1 Filippo Ridolfo
Team Novo Nordisk
3:50:14
2 Tobias Lund Andresen
Team dsm - firmenich
0:02
3 Matyáš Kopecký
Team Novo Nordisk
0:02
4 Kasper Andersen
Denmark
0:02
5 Logan Currie
Bolton Equities Black Spoke
0:02
6 Robin Juel Skivild
Leopard TOGT Pro Cycling
0:02
7 Tobias Svarre
Team ColoQuick
0:32
8 Jenno Berckmoes
Team Flanders - Baloise
0:38
9 Kristian Egholm
Restaurant Suri - Carl Ras
2:03
10 William Blume Levy
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
4:42
12 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
4:55
1 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 11:30:32
2 Soudal Quick-Step 0:10
3 Lidl - Trek 0:12
4 Leopard TOGT Pro Cycling 0:16
5 EF Education - EasyPost 0:16
6 Alpecin - Deceuninck 0:16
7 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 0:16
8 HRE Mazowsze Serce Polski 0:16
9 Team ColoQuick 0:46
10 Team Flanders - Baloise 0:52

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