Deutschland Tour

Stage 1: Schweinfurt - Heilbronn

DE Germany Thursday 22 August 2024 176.5 km

Gelders moves into top 10 overall

Gelders moves into top 10 overall

Belgian neo-pro Gil Gelders made a nice jump in the general classification of the Deutschland Tour, at the end of a day that didn’t roll out the red carpet for the sprinters, who had to dig deep in order to make it over the two climbs stacked in the final twelve kilometers.

The 176.3km stage one was very fast in the first part of the course, a breakaway going clear only after 90 kilometers. The trio were kept on a tight leash by the peloton and brought back just before the intense finale, where four men attacked, looking to prevent the day from concluding in a bunch sprint. Despite their best efforts, the chasers came back on the descent with just four kilometers to go and the finale belonged to the fast men, GC leader Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) emerging victorious.

Czech Tour stage winner Luke Lamperti was the first Soudal Quick-Step rider home, close to the top ten, while teammate Gil Gelders – best young rider in Slovakia at the end of June – is now tenth overall, just five seconds from the podium, ahead of Friday’s hilly stage to Schwäbisch Gmünd.

 

Photo credit: ©Luc Claessen / Getty Images

Race details

1 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
4:16:17
2 Jordi Meeus
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
3 Max Kanter
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:00
4 Alexander Kristoff
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
5 Henri Uhlig
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:00
6 Emilien Jeannière
TotalEnergies
0:00
7 Niklas Märkl
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00
8 Matevž Govekar
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
9 Tobias Müller
Germany
0:00
10 Joshua Huppertz
Team Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank
0:00
13 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
47 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
54 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
58 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
75 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
94 Jordi Warlop
Soudal Quick-Step
2:00
1 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
4:19:23
2 Jordi Meeus
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:09
3 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
0:11
4 Ethan Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
0:13
5 Stefan Bissegger
EF Education - EasyPost
0:13
6 Danny van Poppel
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:14
7 Jannik Steimle
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:15
8 Marco Haller
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:15
9 Fabio Christen
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:16
10 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
0:16
11 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
0:16
37 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
0:23
53 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
0:25
63 Fausto Masnada
Soudal Quick-Step
0:27
86 Jordi Warlop
Soudal Quick-Step
2:22
1 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
30 pt
2 Jordi Meeus
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
14 pt
3 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
12 pt
4 Max Kanter
Astana Qazaqstan Team
9 pt
5 Maikel Zijlaard
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
9 pt
6 Nick Bangert
Team Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank
8 pt
7 Anton Lennemann
BIKE AID
8 pt
8 Ethan Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
7 pt
9 Alexander Kristoff
Uno-X Mobility
7 pt
10 Stefan Bissegger
EF Education - EasyPost
6 pt
1 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
3 pt
2 Anton Lennemann
BIKE AID
3 pt
3 Kevin Vermaerke
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
2 pt
4 Nick Bangert
Team Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank
2 pt
5 Archie Ryan
EF Education - EasyPost
1 pt
6 Ben Felix Jochum
Team Lotto Kern-Haus PSD Bank
1 pt
1 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
4:19:23
2 Fabio Christen
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:16
3 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
0:16
4 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
0:16
5 Matevž Govekar
Bahrain - Victorious
0:17
6 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
0:17
7 Sean Flynn
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:19
8 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
0:19
9 Marius Mayrhofer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:19
10 Alessandro Fancellu
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:20
18 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
0:23
1 Lidl - Trek 12:58:49
2 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 0:04
3 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 0:11
4 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 0:11
5 INEOS Grenadiers 0:13
6 Soudal Quick-Step 0:14
7 Bahrain - Victorious 0:16
8 EF Education - EasyPost 0:19
9 Uno-X Mobility 0:22
10 Movistar Team 0:23

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